Complicated solution to a simple problem

[Gone in 60]

A friend of mine and his son work together, and they have a long commute, Riverside CA to the South Bay area, and in order to get into the 3- occupant lane, they fashioned up a third rider dummy for the rear seat of the truck. A foam wig stand propped up on a box, equipped with huge sunglasses and a wig with a ball cap on it. The camera sees that, and it's good to go.

Brilliant. Years ago, I saw "The inflatable man" on Ebay... sort of looked like the "Otto Pilot" from the movie Airplane. It was marketed as a safety device to be used by women driving alone... by putting what looked like a man in the passenger seat, it gave the impression that there was a man in the car. Of course, they were used as car pool dummies.

Seems that the new fun doodad for Christmas last month was inflatable snowmen or Santas that sat in the car, plugged into the power socket. I saw someone with one in a parking lot and asked "You use that for the car pool lane, don't you?"