If you wrote the HOS, how would you do it?

I hear a lot of complaining about the HOS, and I agree with most of it, but at the same time, I can also see how they are necessary to keep everyone safe. What I'd like to know, though, is how would you fix them? What do you think is reasonable?
Lets brainstorm a little and see if we, the drivers, the ones whose lives and livelihoods are most affected by these rules, can come up with a better plan, something that would work. Maybe if we come up with something good we can make the powers that be listen to us. (OK, maybe I'm dreaming, but it wouldn't hurt to try, right?)

Here's what I'd like to see in my ideal HOS (and I'm kinda thinking as I type here, free-flowing ideas, so forgive me if it rambles a bit):

OK, so a person needs, on average, about 8 hours of sleep out of every 24 hours, so you mandate 8 hours in the sleeper berth. But, sometimes you gotta get up and move your truck, make a delivery, deal with some joker backing into you at the truckstop, etc... so, you must be able to break up those eight hours to make it flexible without a penalty. In addition to those eight hours, and in order to insure those eight are used for sleep, add an extra two hours of off duty time for showering, exercise, eating, fishing, posting here, or whatever.

So, that makes for a 10 hour break, which leaves 14 hours left in the day - so far not too different from the way its broken up now.

I guess the main thing that needs to be changed would be the ability to break up those breaks and driving time, get rid of the 14 hour clock thing, and just mandate that a driver can't do more than 14 hours of combined driving and or on duty time in any 24 hour period (not necessarily midnight to midnight)...

or... wait... how about this... If you always track it from midnight to midnight...
Say you wake up from your eight hours sleeping at 6 am, then take an hour off duty to jog, shower, eat breakfast, then get moving at 7am. That gives you one more hour of off duty time, and two more hours of sleep that you have to get before midnight that night. You can take those three hours whenever you need to, as long as you take them before midnight - like if you drive all day without another break, you would have to stop at 9pm go off duty from 9 to 10, then sleep 10 to midnight. If you sleep a full eight at one stretch, that gives you 6 hours toward fulfilling your mandated rest the next day, getting up at 6 am again.

Am I making any sense?

Anyway, I'm rambling and thinking aloud and probably not really saying anything.
What do you guys and gals think, can we codify an HOS that would make both truckers and safety Nazis happy?