Runaway truck ramps!
See them on mountain highways.
Why not daily life?

You see these in the mountains.

The last place you want to be is between one and a runaway truck.

Until I looked them up online, I didn’t realize there were 4 major types:

Arrester bed: a gravel-filled ramp adjacent to the road that uses rolling resistance to stop the vehicle. The required length of the bed depends on the mass and speed of the vehicle, the grade of the arrester bed, and the rolling resistance provided by the gravel.

Gravity escape ramp: a long, upwardly inclined path parallel to the road. Substantial length is required. Control can be difficult for the driver; problems include rollback after the vehicle stops.

Sand pile escape ramp: a short length of loosely piled sand. Problems include sudden, forceful deceleration; sand being affected by weather conditions (moisture and freezing); and vehicles vaulting and/or overturning after contacting the sand pile.

Mechanical-arrestor escape ramp: a proprietary system of stainless-steel nets transversely spanning a paved ramp to engage and retard a runaway vehicle. Ramps of this type are typically shorter than gravity ramps, and can work even on a downhill grade. These systems tend to be costly, but may save expensive real estate in crowded areas, and prevent even more costly crashes.

The purpose of the ramp is the same regardless of design and that is that the ramp allows a moving vehicle’s kinetic energy to be dissipated gradually in a controlled and relatively harmless way, helping the operator to stop it safely without a violent crash.

Sounds like just the thing for every day life.

Maybe there is an app for that or maybe I should design one.

On a sun-kissed day
invested in the action
full of fight, spirit

Oh for a Saturday in the South.

Are there better words for a days weather than sun-kissed?

But the rain is coming so I sally forth to battle the yard and mow the lawn.

world without a code
decency can be fatal
liability

Sounds like a comment on the current political scene regardless of party or maybe just life in America in the age of social media and maybe it is.

Today’s haiku is taken from a line in the article, “The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western” by Charles Bramesco (Tue 18 Jun 2019)

Bramesco writes, “The Wild Bunch stands out as the first western to go full-bore with its reappraisal of frontier narratives, and remains the most ferociously modern example by virtue of its coal-black heart. The question of integrity’s importance, utility and limits haunts the band of no-goodniks as they cut a dusty swath through the Texas desert. They turn on one another whenever convenient, more than willing to step on each other’s faces to climb out of mortal peril. As Holden’s leading man Pike Bishop growls, “$10,000 cuts an awful lot of family ties.” He speaks this crucial line of dialogue to his compatriot Angel, soon to be left for dead as a captive of a sadistic general in the Mexican military. When his change of heart comes, both too little and too late, the abrupt growth of a conscience cues up the bloodbath grand finale. Decency can be a fatal liability in a world without a code.“

He also writes of the Wild Bunch, “They fear they just weren’t made for these times, in an America with no use for the gunslinger myth.”

My fear is that I am not made for these times, in an America with no use for common decency.

Food? Existential
necessity, carries love.
Daily life structure

Grandma’s food was a conduit that transmitted love. Peasant women worked too hard and too much to find time to cuddle and play with the kids; instead, they would make their favourite dishes. This is another source for the ethical value of food – it carried love . From ‘Bread is practically sacred’: how the taste of home sustained my refugee parents By Aleksandar Hemon

Another well-written article from the Guardian. (UK)