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A brilliant new idea to stop your car getting towed (or is it?) | ZDNet

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https://sites.google.com/view/carengine-repair/ Will this stop drivers from getting angry? Or will it actually encourage bad behavior? Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who now runs the consultancy Howard Raucous LLC. A race to victory? Technology hasn't always been a vehicle for happiness. Featured It's too easy to be mean. It's too easy to be anonymously venomous. And then there's government. When has that ever been a vehicle for happiness? Well, except for when it does things we like, or that benefit us. Therefore, I am risen to rapture that a government has taken it upon itself to do citizens an actual favor.  Naturally, this gesture of generosity is being enacted in San Francisco. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency is asking drivers to sign up for a program entitled Text Before Tow. The idea is that the agency doesn't want to be mean. Well, not too mean. So instead of giving you a lovely surprise after it's summarily to