How Did I Miss This One?

"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:

> When engineers in San Diego sent a caravan of eight Buicks down I-15
> at 65 miles per hour, the steady-handed computers at the steering
> wheels kept the cars spaced just 15 feet apart. By squeezing three
> times as many cars on the highway, this technology could drastically
> ease traffic congestion -- if only engineers could figure out a way to
> get millions of drivers to buy these systems.
>
> [I have long held that a system like this is the ONLY way we will ever
> eliminate traffic congestion - we simply cannot build roads fast
> enough to outpace the ability of incompetents and LLBs to clog things
> up.]

It may work on the highway but as soon as you're on the side streets in
the rush hour it's ****ed.

It's not highways that limit traffic capacity typically. It's the
'bottlenecks' that happen in towns and cities.

Graham