My POS '99 Chevy Cavalier has many things wrong with it. One of those things is the horn. It hasn't functioned for so long that I don't even remember if it worked when I got the car. I do know that since I have no horn to rely on as a potential accident avoidance device, I instead reach for the trusty emergency brake. I do indeed say trusty. Whilst most Ohio motorists slam on the brakes at the slightest loss of traction, I ease on down to 2nd gear. Still no traction? Down to 1st gear we go. Applying the e-brake in a pumping motion, as in using it in an anti-lock brake capacity instead of just locking up those back wheels provides any additional stopping power I may need. That's not to say that I haven't had to yank back on the ebrake and swing the wheel around turning my car 90 degrees so as to avoid slamming into a no-turn-signal-using-last-minu­te braker. Maybe I shouldn't have been following so closely, or maybe they should have taken those precious seconds to use their turn signal.

As nifty an idea and as visible as those side-view mirror turn signal arrows are, not enough drivers use their signals properly, if at all. Coasting out of the fast lane over one lane to the right with no traffic intervening, that's a forgivable lack of signal use. At least the driver ceded the lane for those of us either going the speed limit while they cruise more slowly or for those of us in quite the hurry. Cutting off others without any use of signal? *seethes* Using the signal at the last possible second? Not good, but getting better. Using it after you cut me off? Go back to driving school. Leaving it on for miles at a time? Bad. Leaving a blinker on for miles at a time then merging or turning the other direction?! Again, go back to driving school.

Most of my early driving experience came from driving military vehicles off road with no lights enabled, yet still I have turn signal use as a necessary habit.

Let's remove horns, install ebrakes there instead since it's so habitual for most people, and make the turn signal controls on both sides of the wheel. We can move the wiper controls to the dashboard, either on the left side of the wheel like my Cadillac Fleetwoods, or on the right side so that a copilot can work those controls if need be.