Image by WikimediaAs the American Automotive Fabric takes a little "T-Out" from its regularly scheduled programming, we may want to prepare our last bidey-byes to the notion that jumping into a personally-owned powered metal box - gas, electric, biodiesel, whatever - every time we need a quart of milk is going to reliably continue...With our sweet dreams and driving machines in pieces on the ground, a backup system is clearly required...One is hitchhiking, which relies on the kindness of strangers and a certain implicit level of d