High Occupancy Vehicle. You have to have four people in the car to use them ... it's meant to encourage carpooling. It hasn't, but legend has it that it has encouraged people to strap down three blowup sex toys with seatbelts to be able to drive in the faster-moving, less congested lanes of traffic.

blowup sex toys?

You have to have four people in the car to use them ...

HA! I'm pretty sure in Houston and Dallas it's only a minimum of two people.

You must have to have two coon hounds with you, then.

Sex toys, including inflatable sheep, yes. Although you have to guess that guy was wanting to get caught. Also lawsuits about whether or not a pregnant woman counted as two people.

Former Governor Wilder of Virginia provided a graphic demonstration of the effects of HOV lanes by changing one lane of (I believe) the three-lane Route 7 to HOV from unrestricted. The resulting backups were of legendary proportions.

Former Governor Wilder of Virginia provided a graphic demonstration of the effects of HOV lanes by changing one lane of (I believe) the three-lane Route 7 to HOV from unrestricted. The resulting backups were of legendary proportions.

It all comes down to where people's breaking points are. Obviously the traffic jams weren't bad enough to make most people carpool. But I bet if he'd made TWO lanes HOV-only, that would have done it. :)

Penn & Teller are both friends of mine. Both are also libertarians also. I like the show they did where they had someone in a lab coat giving people facials with live snails and people were raving about how great it worked. I think they covered psychic surgery in that episode too.