Button Up Plan

Can you imagine an Australian designed and manufactured car, free of intervention by American or Japanese overlords?

My guess is that the OH&S risk analysis part of the project would be so vicious that it would be deemed way too dangerous to allow humans into the vehicle.

So we’d end up with autonomous vehicles not suitable for carrying any passengers.

But they’d look great, have great big turbo-charged V8 engines, and accelerate to 110 km/h in 2.3 seconds.

Despite the autonomous control, they’d be programmed to occasionally exceed the speed limit to keep the state government coffers from drying up.

They’d be made in Senator Xenaphon’s seat in Adelaide and distributed by Dick Smith autos.

Each and every vehicle would be subsidised by the tax payer to the value of a Hyundai i20.

And they would require hand washing every weekend or else they would refuse to start on Monday morning.