30 People Post Their Dumbest Ideas That Might Just Might Make The World A Better Place
The brain is a truly fantastic thing. The same organ that’s capable of controlling a myriad of passive as well as active bodily functions, comprehending elaborately complex concepts, and providing a unique kind of sentience is also the organ that often slips us a dumb idea. Or two. OK, much more.
But, hey, not all ideas are dumb, despite you thinking so. A curious Twitter user by the name of Bijan asked the internet what’s the dumbest idea people ever had, but are nevertheless convinced it’d still make the world a better place for all.
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Bored Panda has collected some of the best responses from the viral thread and created a curated list for you to enjoy. Vote, comment, and why not tell us some of your ideas in the comment section below!
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I also think they should live on an "average" wage for a year or two so they understand what the average person/family have to go through.
Legalize weed across the states, tax it, and use that money to repair the roads. Call it Operation Pothole.
Definitely, and for crying out loud ride in single file, not 2-3+ abreast.
Well in Australia it is illegal to ask a breastfeeding mother to leave or move elsewhere etc. Doesn't matter if she is feeding in the middle of a shopping centre, a restaurant etc. From my observations, it seems that other women are the ones that complain about breastfeeding in public, a lot more than men do.
This one makes me so sad, especially because of how women and PoC are so much more routinely dismissed, leading to sometimes dire consequences.
We have those in uk. When traffic is low- they will change to green by the time I get to them if there is no one going other way.
You don't have those in the US?!? In France they are pretty common, mainly when a busy street crosses a not so busy one.
I hate this. Some mornings I go in at 5 or 6. I ace just started running them. I'm not going to sit at a light for 3-4 minutes when I'm the only car on the road. Yes, I have written the city about it. More than once.
Its not pressure, it's called a loop, and it's wires detect the metal of the vehicles frame.
Many lights in the UK have pressure pads and cameras for traffic control, so it's already a thing here
Amen. Lived near a quiet intersection with the looongest light. Wanted to run it multiple times, but knew the police station was just around the corner so I didn’t dare. 😂
I was literally talking about this yesterday! Smart lights would be able to detect cars in the road, and change the lights to best suit the flow of traffic.
I sat at a light for 10 minutes one time and there was never a car in sight so I just ran the light and never did see it change behind me
That one of many reasons why I prefer roundabouts and they are safer too.
They usually are after hours. They are pressure sensitive. During the day when there is traffic, they are timed.
All the lights in my town have sensors that sense if there's vehicle on that side. If it detect no vehicle, the light on that side wont turn green.
There are a couple of lights in my city where I swear it purposely keeps everybody there waiting and gives green to the directions where nobody is coming. These intersections also do not allow left turns without a green arrow, which I always have to wait a really long time for.
Lights around here are a little too touchy. They will change for one car almost immediately when they could have let that last car pass before changing. Feels good when it is in my favor, but not so much when I am on the side of "fewer vehicles though an intersection per hour."
On busy intersections in NZ lights use pressure sensors under the first car position in every lane to regulate changes.
I know of lights that are intentionally set in a way that traffic on one street stops when no one is coming on the cross street. When cross traffic finally comes, they have to stop while the people who had been waiting for no one gets to go, and remain stopped long afterward, until someone approaches again. It's just to slow people down. And I know of other lights that are intentionally timed so badly and shortly so that frustrated drivers run more red lights, generating revenue from tickets.
In maryland, all the loop detector signals are being replaced with cameras.
No. Smart lights are more expensive to install and maintain, but they do exist and there are gradually becoming more of them. They do have their foibles though - they tend to start to change just the last car approaches the line and then it's a case of should I stay or should I go!
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Knowing me I would procrastinate until June, then „relax“ during the summer until I finally put together a manuscript in december.
All the money that is spent on marketing and advertising saved would make products cheaper, and if the product changes are good, it will sell itself X
Like a personal ID coin for shopping cart..if you don't return the cart you don't have your coin back and you can't get the next cart..
Well, the horn is supposed to be used only in case of emergency. If you are in an emergency, you don't need that level of stress added on top of it.
Can't remember where is was, but in a town in Europe everyone parked with their handbrake off so people could move the other cars back and forth as they parked or pulled away so they could all fit in
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I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
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The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
Load More Replies... I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
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The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies... #31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.
I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
Load More Replies... The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
Load More Replies... I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
Load More Replies... The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies... #31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.
