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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 |
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