Driving a semi-truck in the Upper Midwest has its benefits. While flat and often lifeless, the roads are as straight as anywhere in the continental United States of America. No one knows this better than Delilah Potter, a trucker and part-time student at Western Governors University.
Over the weekend, Delilah fell asleep at the wheel in Bismarck, North Dakota, exhausted from a long day of listening to lectures about logistics. “When I woke up, I wasn’t sure how much time had passed – everything looked the same,” she said. However, she stopped at a local gas station and learned that she had crossed the state line without even realizing it.
She continued: “It was great. Now I feel well-rested, and I basically got paid to sleep.” While many automotive companies are in an arm’s race to create a car that will drive itself, Delilah is on a new mission: redesign all American highways and interstates to be a perfectly straight line. “If all you have to do is press the gas pedal and the brakes, think how much more productive we could be,” she wrote in an article to the United States Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.
“I don’t care about mountains, rivers, or any other barriers – you all are smart, you’ll figure it out,” the letter finished. The U.S. government loved Delilah’s proposal and offered her a job in Washington D.C. However, Delilah immediately denied the request. “You won’t pay me as much, and I won’t have one of the industry’s more skilled and respected jobs,” she said. “No thanks!”
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