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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 06/08/10 20:02, Jim Charter wrote:
>> Yes historically different things have been tried and particular roads
>> have been/are posted to reserve the left lane as a high speed lane or
>> passing lane. On steep grades the left lane is often reserved for
>
> To clarify, in Illinois, you are allowed to drive on the left lane if
> no one is behind you. In some states, you just can't - unless you're
> overtaking.
>
Thanks for the clarification. Yes I see the shift in emphasis. And the
question I should have asked earlier. You are saying that this is true
just on the Interstate if I understand correctly. Is that how it is
specified in the Traffic Code, that this applies to the interstate, or
is it posted on the roadway itself, or both? I should have asked you
that earlier, how the information is being disseminated. The interstate
is precisely where you would get a lot of out-of-state drivers, of course.
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>> I don't follow your logic here, if you're leaving a 4 second gap to the
>> car immediately ahead, you still have a 4 second gap no matter what the
>> people are doing ahead of you.
>
> You answered your own question:
>
> > Of course in reality cars don't just instantly stop for no reason,
>
> They do if they run into the person in front of them who is also already
> stopped.
Sure, and you have a 4 second gap so can come almost to a complete stop
without hitting them. Even if the guy behind you is only leaving a 0.5
second gap, he is *not* going to be faced with a stationary car in 0.5 s, he
is going to be faced with you braking hard, which is vastly easier to deal
with and will result in a lot less damage if he does hit you.
> If *everybody* fixes those two issues, there's no pile-up. If you're car
> #150 of 300, it doesn't much matter whether you hit the guy in front if
> the guys behind you don't leave enough root to stop.
Taken to the extreme, assume everyone is leaving a 0.5 second gap, but you
are the only one leaving a 10 second gap. When you see the cars ahead
piling up, you have plenty of space to start off braking gently and come to
a stop, the cars behind you are far less likely to pile into the back of
you, so you have essentially stopped the pile-up continuing by leaving a big
gap. It might start again further back up the road if everyone is so close,
but at least your car is not going to be damaged so badly by the guy
directly behind smashing into you.
> Yes. Sadly, most people around here are really bad drivers.
Here in Germany the average seems to be a pretty high standard, but you
still get the odd few.
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scott wrote:
> Sure, and you have a 4 second gap so can come almost to a complete stop
> without hitting them. Even if the guy behind you is only leaving a 0.5
> second gap, he is *not* going to be faced with a stationary car in 0.5
> s,
No, he's going to be faced with a stationary car in 3.5 seconds. And the guy
have a second behind him will be faces with a stationary car in 3 seconds.
Then 2.5. Etc. See what I'm saying?
By slamming into the person in front of you, you have eliminated the braking
time you're claiming protects the person behind you.
> Taken to the extreme, assume everyone is leaving a 0.5 second gap, but
> you are the only one leaving a 10 second gap.
Yep.
>> Yes. Sadly, most people around here are really bad drivers.
>
> Here in Germany the average seems to be a pretty high standard, but you
> still get the odd few.
My main peeve is most people just don't look ahead, at least on the east
coast. On the west coast, they seem a bit better.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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On 06/09/10 23:06, Jim Charter wrote:
> just on the Interstate if I understand correctly. Is that how it is
> specified in the Traffic Code, that this applies to the interstate, or
> is it posted on the roadway itself, or both? I should have asked you
> that earlier, how the information is being disseminated. The interstate
> is precisely where you would get a lot of out-of-state drivers, of course.
It's in the official handbook you use to study for the written test.
--
Outside a Muffler Shop:
"No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."
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>> Sure, and you have a 4 second gap so can come almost to a complete stop
>> without hitting them. Even if the guy behind you is only leaving a 0.5
>> second gap, he is *not* going to be faced with a stationary car in 0.5 s,
>
> No, he's going to be faced with a stationary car in 3.5 seconds.
How come? Even if he continues at a constant speed he's not going to reach
the stopped car for 4.5 seconds, but I assume he's going to start braking a
bit after he sees the car ahead braking.
> And the guy have a second behind him will be faces with a stationary car
> in 3 seconds. Then 2.5. Etc. See what I'm saying?
Sure, but in most cases people can deal braking normally and stop without
crashing. It's only once one person has crashed, then suddenly everyone
behind has to stop a lot faster so it kind of chain reactions back. It then
only takes one car leaving a bigger gap to "reset" the chain reaction and
then people behind can brake in a normal manner again.
> By slamming into the person in front of you, you have eliminated the
> braking time you're claiming protects the person behind you.
Yes, but my whole point is if you leave a 4 second gap you are massively
reducing the chances that you slam into the person in front.
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scott wrote:
> Sure, but in most cases people can deal braking normally and stop
> without crashing. It's only once one person has crashed, then suddenly
> everyone behind has to stop a lot faster so it kind of chain reactions
> back.
That's what I'm talking about, yes.
> It then only takes one car leaving a bigger gap to "reset" the
> chain reaction and then people behind can brake in a normal manner again.
And that's why it's a good idea for it to be *you* leaving the bigger gap,
yes? :-)
> Yes, but my whole point is if you leave a 4 second gap you are massively
> reducing the chances that you slam into the person in front.
Well, sure. I guess that's a reasonable gap.
Around here, I see lines of five to ten people all driving so close I
couldn't parallel park between them if they were stopped. That's just assinine.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 06/09/10 23:06, Jim Charter wrote:
>> just on the Interstate if I understand correctly. Is that how it is
>> specified in the Traffic Code, that this applies to the interstate, or
>> is it posted on the roadway itself, or both? I should have asked you
>> that earlier, how the information is being disseminated. The interstate
>> is precisely where you would get a lot of out-of-state drivers, of course.
>
> It's in the official handbook you use to study for the written test.
>
Tough on out of state drivers
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From: Neeum Zawan
Subject: Re: Lane hoggers - how to deal with them?
Date: 14 Jun 2010 11:04:45
Message: <4c16450d@news.povray.org>
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On 06/13/10 12:20, Jim Charter wrote:
>> It's in the official handbook you use to study for the written test.
>>
> Tough on out of state drivers
I doubt it's ever enforced.
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