Just as democracy tends not to work without a free press, an independent judiciary and other helpful institutions, so roundabouts need decent drivers, straight police and reasonable infrastructure to function.
What they didn't say: It is packed with so much accident-avoidance technology, including backup collision intervention, distance control assist, around view monitor with moving object detection and blind spot intervention, that it seems custom-designed to make even decent drivers doubt their skills.
If banned from F1, Renault might stay away for good since their future is already shaky thanks to languishing in eighth place in the constructors' championship, having no title sponsor for next year and, possibly, no decent driver if Alonso moves to Ferrari.
Phil Berardelli, author of the 1996 book "Safe Young Drivers" (Mountain Lake Press), said that most schools offered "six to 10 hours behind the wheel, but kids need at least 100 hours of supervised instruction just to be decent novice drivers".
The 2008 is a decent urban driver, with fuss-free steering.
Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
They're powered, with decent-sized drivers; Audyssey claims "Small speakers that can't produce bass, speaker cabinets that make noise, distortion, or even poor sound quality at low volumes are all problems that are solved by Audyssey Smart Speaker technology," and "We don't boost the bass and distort the sound, we actually enhance the performance of the driver to give you deeper sounds".
Most of us think that we, personally, are pretty decent, even great drivers.
Sonny is treated like a king, as is Calogero, to the consternation of his father (Richard H. Blake), a decent hardworking bus driver who orders his son to stay away from Sonny and his crew, guys named Eddie Mush and JoJo the Whale.
A 6-footer can sit comfortably behind a 6-foot driver and enjoy decent leg room, without the driver having to scoot the seat forward.
It's obvious that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg doesn't comprehend or care about this, but the West Side offers a decent transportation alternative for drivers going from uptown to downtown (and vice versa) when other routes are clogged up.
