Sunday night, I passed someone who was in the left lane...doing about 50MPH...50! It created a big bottle neck...and forced people to pass on the right. And the person still stayed in that lane after being passed by 8+ cars...and after I gave them the "happy horn" as I passed. Idiot.
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Re: Driving
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Sunday night, I passed someone who was in the left lane...doing about 50MPH...50! It created a big bottle neck...and forced people to pass on the right. And the person still stayed in that lane after being passed by 8+ cars...and after I gave them the "happy horn" as I passed. Idiot.
Black Phantom
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I like to give them a bump out of the way...That usually gets them to move over
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ctenidae
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The point is, no matter what the speed, all the cars travelling at a consistent speed is more efficinet than all the cars travelling around that speed on average. 100 cars going 55 is more efficient (less likely to alter speed, have an accident, or generate a jam) than 50 cars going 65 running up on 50 cars going 45.100 cars goign 55 is probably more efficinet than 50 cars going 75 and 50 going 45, for all that (unless the 45 crowd stays in their lane and the 75 crowd stays in theirs).
If everybody maintained consistent gaps and stayed in their lanes, things would go smoothly. People who don't pay much attention and keep a widely variable gap or who swap in and out of lanes are, as this experiment indicates, the largest part of the problem.
If everybody maintained consistent gaps and stayed in their lanes, things would go smoothly. People who don't pay much attention and keep a widely variable gap or who swap in and out of lanes are, as this experiment indicates, the largest part of the problem.
I foresee a day when highway travel is completely controlled through GPS technology. People plug in their destination on a computer when they enter a highway and relinquish control of their vehicle to satellite guidance. It's a scary thought, but with the way technology is advancing and our population (traffic) is growing, I think it's inevitable.
I hope im not around to see that!
There's been chat about that in the mags and on the podcasts. I beleive they call it "podding" or something like that.
The tech is totally there. Some engineers are using GPS to control headlights; to put the most effective amount of light on the road and not blind other drivers when cornering or going up hills ect.
I could see podding working. Enter the highway, link up with a group of cars and travel in a lane based on destination. The tech is there with GPS and radar. I think they'd just have to do a better job of monitoring the road conditions and traffic in realtime.
mondeo
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No, the results of the experiment aren't to the contrary. The experiment is testing pacing traffic at a slightly lower speed vs. doing nothing. This is successful. It isn't testing anything in regards to getting people to drive properly.
Take two lanes of traffic, with a car on average every 4 seconds. Now merge the traffic into one lane. Some idiot will wait until the last possible second to merge, someone will go 15mph slower just because there's only one lane, etc. There's no fundamental reason for traffic to slow, but it will. The study doesn't explore the possiblity of fixing the problem of poor merging and inexplicable speed reductions. It says nothing about the potential for driving skill.
The big linchpin I see is personal vehicle maintenance and having enough control over the system to make adjustments when a car breaks down.
If a car breaks down in front of me and I don't have control over my vehicle to avoid an accident and end up getting hurt, the satellite system would be liable.
drjeff
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But yet you probably didn't think about it at all a few weeks ago as that plane that you were traveling on, about 7 miles up in the sky at somewhere around 500 mph, on your way to/from Vegas, was basically flying itself for hours
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mondeo
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Well, good luck pressing take off, then autopilot, then land!But yet you probably didn't think about it at all a few weeks ago as that plane that you were traveling on, about 7 miles up in the sky at somewhere around 500 mph, on your way to/from Vegas, was basically flying itself for hours
But yet you probably didn't think about it at all a few weeks ago as that plane that you were traveling on, about 7 miles up in the sky at somewhere around 500 mph, on your way to/from Vegas, was basically flying itself for hours
Very true!
You and me both!
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