While doing a little research on the lack of rain we had this past summer and fall, I stumbled across some information on the Internet that I found to be interesting.

Did you know that Seymour holds two records when it comes to the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the state.

According to the Indiana State Climate Office at Purdue University, Seymour holds the highest temperature ever recorded in the state for both the months of June and August. Back in 1936, a really hot year, there were at least one day in each of those two months when the temperature reached 111 degrees.

By the way, those aren’t temperatures were not the highest ever recorded in the state. That honor goes to Collegeville where the temperature hit 116 in July of the same year. Collegeville is located in Jasper County in far northwestern Indiana.

For more, visit http://www.agry.purdue.edu/climate/facts.asp

For the record, the drought that plagued the county for most of the spring, summer and fall of 2007 is long gone. It began in late May and ended in early December.

I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to keeping up with the latest and greatest technologicial innovations.

That’s something my 15-year-old can vouch for because I’m always asking him to help me make something work on my cell phone or my DVD player.

But I do try to keep up with the current events, and I just read an article today about a future with driverless cars.

It seems General Motor executives believe that such an animal could become available within the next decade.

Many of the technologies such as motion sensors, lane-change warning devices, GPS mapping and radar-based crusie control, to make a driverless vehicle exist, they claim.

GM says there’s a few simple issues standing in the way of a driverless vehicles. Issues such as privacy, governmental regulation and Americans’ willingness to give up control of their vehicles.

The company also claims the new technology would go along way toward reducing the numbers of Americans who die or are seriously injured in crashes on the nation’s roads each year.

I have a simple question. If the technology exists to make traveling safer, why aren’t we already using it every vehicle coming off a production line?