I hope that this study just pertains to British cars, but I’m certain that it does not exclude us in reality.  It seems that a recent study by British scientists discovered that the average U.K car is something like a cross between a used Pamela Anderson tissue, and the underside of a sewage treatment plant worker’s shoe.  The verdict: U.K. cars are crawling with filth.  Here’s what Sky News had to report:

UK drivers are so slack about keeping their vehicles clean that the typical car has been found to host to no less than 283 different types of bacteria every square centimetre.

Harmful bacteria, including E. coli, were identified in some cars.

Microbiologists at Aston University discovered that, on average, the dirtiest part of the car is the gear stick, with 356 germs identified every square centimetre.

In one instance, a car boot had over 850 bacteria present per square centimetre.

So if you are anything like my girlfriend (or my mother for that matter) I’m sure you will be driving your car from now on with one of those masks that the U.S. cyclists wore to avoid getting SARS, while touching the gearshift and steering wheel only while holding an anti-bacterial wipe in each hand.  While this news sounds disgusting, and most certainly is, you have no need to fear since according to Koco.com, after testing shopping cars for bacteria it was reported that:

Two carts that were tested at the Target store registered 110 million and 128 million bacteria, respectively. Seideman said those figures should be alarming to shoppers.

“That’s very high,” he said. “That means it’s not been cleaned or sanitized for some time, and that’s going to get on your hands.”

My advice: don’t get out of bed, start growing your beard to ZZ Top length, wear tissue boxes for shoes, and start saving your human waste in mason jars…it’s the only way people.

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