metro driving 101

We used to drive like this when were kids and no one thought much of it. That's what steel bumpers were for. Try it nowadays and you can look forward to a substance test, loss of license, impounding of your vehicle, loss of your insurance, 30 days in the grey bar hotel, and a $2500 bill for every car you stick because the bumpers are made from plastic with the tensile strength of a potato chip.
Do I wish for the good ol' days when bumpers were designed to bump? Nah. We're much better off with plastic cars made from an ever renewable and plentiful resource... oil.