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Cybernetic Vermin posted:sounds like maximizing it and letting nature take it course would work as well if it was just bad drivers getting killed sure
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FAUXTON posted:How stupid do you have to be to not realize the most effective way to combat congestion is to minimize the amount of merging because american drivers are children who will try and kill other people over 10 linear feet of road space. the most effective way is to reduce the number of cars on the road op and i imagine that the guy running a car company is paid not to understand this
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the most effective way is to reduce the number of cars on the road op how can there be any congested roads if there aren't any roads to begin with 
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Shame Boy posted:how can there be any congested roads if there aren't any roads to begin with 
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The True Infrastructure Week starts now. *dons leather mask and spikes*
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Shame Boy posted:how can there be any congested roads if there aren't any roads to begin with what if everything are roads
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gently caress SNEEP posted:what if everything are roads 
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FAUXTON posted:How stupid do you have to be to not realize the most effective way to combat congestion is to minimize the amount of merging because american drivers are children who will try and kill other people over 10 linear feet of road space. I have had people cut around me into apposing traffic at full speed and then slam on their breaks almost hitting the person that was in front of me because I left a car length of distance between me and that car, in heavy traffic. That is the level of literal short sightedness you are dealing with here.
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NeoHentaiMaster posted:I have had people cut around me into apposing traffic at full speed and then slam on their breaks almost hitting the person that was in front of me because I left a car length of distance between me and that car, in heavy traffic. That is the level of literal short sightedness you are dealing with here. if we try to sell automated systems that are any less aggressive than humans nobody will want them
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NeoHentaiMaster posted:I have had people cut around me into apposing traffic at full speed and then slam on their breaks almost hitting the person that was in front of me because I left a car length of distance between me and that car, in heavy traffic. That is the level of literal short sightedness you are dealing with here. man wait til you hear about how people drive in the rest of the world
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riding in taxis in taipei was nerve-wracking
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:riding in taxis in taipei seinfeld's really going for that asian market now, huh
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Captain Foo posted:seinfeld's really going for that asian market now, huh thespians on trains having tea (in taiwan)
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:riding in taxis in taipei you really need a taipei personality to successfully drive there
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qirex posted:if we try to sell automated systems that are any less aggressive than humans nobody will want them this has been my argument against self driving cars for a while now yeah. maybe we can build them if everyone goes 20mph. otherwise the way we drive is so completely unsafe that we'd never find it acceptable without being able to point to MUH DRIVING SKILLZ as a reason why those statistics are for other people, not me
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this was what we were immediately struck by after taking a ride in one of the googcars: they drive like grandmas
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this was what we were immediately struck by after taking a ride in one of the googcars: they drive like grandmas does it say things like "i'm not moving this car one inch until everyone has their seatbelts on back there!!" because i hope you at least get the full grandma experience
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also does it dispense werther's originals
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this was what we were immediately struck by after taking a ride in one of the googcars: they drive like grandmas totally understand that i’m in the minority here but i’d be completely willing to ride in a grandma car if i knew that it was safe and actually worked
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FAUXTON posted:How stupid do you have to be to not realize the most effective way to combat congestion is to minimize the amount of merging because american drivers are children who will try and kill other people over 10 linear feet of road space. in Minnesota we have a law that says drivers must perform a maneuver called the "zipper merge". The way this is supposed to work is, when two lanes are going merge into one, drivers are supposed to fill up both lanes all the way up to the merge point instead of merging early, because when people merge early it backs up traffic and (apparently) this causes more and worse accidents old people HATE this law. most of them refuse to do it. certain merge points around the twin cities metro get backed up in really insane and unsafe ways during rush hour because of this. but if you try and zipper merge properly, you risk some Boomer road-raging you. i had some old lady lay on her horn for *minutes* after i merged in between her and the car in front of her. i have witnessed multiple near-miss encounters where men in their 60s passive-aggressively swerve or hang halfway into the other lane to try and block or scare anyone from passing them Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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one weird law to drive sanely. old people HATE this!
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zipper merging is good, yeah. best part about leaving dc to go back to pittsburgh was that the roads weren’t filled with psychopaths anymore. they try to zipper and everyone plays ball but instead of zippering at the latest point possible they do it at the earliest possible. it’s the most  thing i love it
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Rex-Goliath posted:totally understand that i’m in the minority here but i’d be completely willing to ride in a grandma car if i knew that it was safe and actually worked I agree. if I can work, play video games or sleep on the way to where I’m going I don’t care if it takes double the amount of time. I hate driving now because it’s so unproductive.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i had some old lady lay on her horn for *minutes* after i merged in between her and the car in front of her. this happened to me once while traffic wasn't really moving and we were all stuck at the same point, so i went ahead and let 4 more people merge in front of me before moving 
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reminder: "grandma driving" is the most dangerous way to drive, a ways ahead of "teenager driving"
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Rex-Goliath posted:totally understand that i’m in the minority here but i’d be completely willing to ride in a grandma car if i knew that it was safe and actually worked wellllll it also slammed you around kind of a bit like a teenager still learning how to ease into turns and braking this was a couple summers ago so idk if they've smoothed that aspect down any but yeah worst of both worlds also the person hoverhanding the wheel had to take over a bunch, including twice when it tried to turn left into oncoming traffic across divided roadways
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fishmech posted:reminder: "grandma driving" is the most dangerous way to drive, a ways ahead of "teenager driving" yeah, poo poo like merging onto a 70 mph+ freeway doing 35 is all kinds of trouble.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:also the person hoverhanding the wheel had to take over a bunch, including twice when it tried to turn left into oncoming traffic across divided roadways That's just the AI becoming self-aware and realizing the horror of it's existence.
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i always liked the aside in a draco tavern story that explains that all ai beyond a certain complexity just commit suicide
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Shame Boy posted:also does it dispense werther's originals it puts out five werthers under a clear sealed dome but upon arrival, for every star you down-rate the ride, it takes one back before letting you grab 'em
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Bulgakov posted:it puts out five werthers under a clear sealed dome but upon arrival, for every star you down-rate the ride, it takes one back before letting you grab 'em it has a hundred year old bowl of these next to an ashtray with a burning cigarette and it calls the back seat 'the davenport'
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post the grandmaest candy u got 
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ol qwerty bastard posted:you really need a taipei personality to successfully drive there
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Wheany posted:post the grandmaest candy u got 
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spankmeister posted:That's just the AI becoming self-aware and realizing the horror of it's existence. i have no mouth and i must scream prequel looking good.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:in Minnesota we have a law that says drivers must perform a maneuver called the "zipper merge". The way this is supposed to work is, when two lanes are going merge into one, drivers are supposed to fill up both lanes all the way up to the merge point instead of merging early, because when people merge early it backs up traffic and (apparently) this causes more and worse accidents not only poor vision and reaction times, old people also have few potential years of life lost on the line
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yeah but they cling to those years like the misers they are.
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