I just witnessed (and narrowly avoided) a 3-car accident (3 car fender-bender, really) on one of the entrances to the NY State Thruway.  About 15 cars from three incoming lanes were trying to merge into the single "E-ZPass Only" lane.  This is while there are NO OTHER CARS in either of the two regular toll lanes.  And there are signs EVERYWHERE around the entrances and on the Thruway that indicate that E-ZPass is accepted in any toll lane.

Seriously people...  What's so difficult about this?  I see people cutting other people off to get into the E-ZPass Only lanes all time time.  It's supposed to be E-Z.  They even go through the trouble of making it even E-Zer for you by not making you read the extremely complicated word 'easy'.  Maybe that's part of the problem...  Maybe they're encouraging illiteracy, thereby making people incapable of reading the signs.  Remember that this is on the 'Thruway' (which, despite my spell-checker not telling me it's wrong, I refuse to believe is a proper word).  Who knows...

Oh, and while we're on the subject of cars (kind of)...  I need to laugh at a commercial I saw recently.  It was for some American car company (I don't like American cars, so I don't really pay attention to who's hawking what) claiming that you should buy their new line of fuel-saving cars, which now get an amazing 28 miles per gallon on the highway.  Wow!  28 MPG!  That's so much better than my... oh wait, no it's not.  My 7-year-old, 116,000 mile Civic gets THIRTY-EIGHT miles per gallon on the highway, and averages around 32.  Stupid Americans.