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In college, there was much talk about how interpreting animal actions in terms of human emotions is not good science. It seems like cars can express emotion in how they interact with your car while driving. For instance, if you are driving along a single lane road and stop at a stop light and someone pulls into the turning lane and waits for the light to change, hoping to gun ahead of you to take the lead, the offending car certainly seems to being express a personality or emotion. Besides being irritating and arrogant, there are feelings of impatience, self-centeredness, and judgment.

We know that cars don’t have emotions, but why does it seem like it while driving? Perhaps emotions are only internal to you. If I think of all the times I have read someone’s emotions based on their actions and then think about how it seems that cars can have emotions, it makes me think that I probably read too much into things.

On my bike ride this morning I noticed a few areas of the trail were marked with chalk drawings. They were relatively innocent and they will wash off, but it made me think that we might be sending the wrong message to our youth. Is there a link between childhood chalk drawing and adolescent graffiti? Or am I just pissed that they pictures were relatively innocent?