It depends on how far apart the lights are and how long the cycles are. If there should be 2 full cycles in the time it takes you to get to the light, going twice as fast will get you through a green cycle, but it'll be a full cycle before the one you should have hit.
Driving 70 in a 70 is less dangerous than driving 40 in a 70. Much less. Those around you are never paying enough attention. Therefore it should come as no huge surprise to anyone that counting on it and adjusting your driving habits accordingly will lower your risk of being in an accident.
Abruptly stopping is perfectly safe, as long as the person behind you isn't tailgating.
And we're back to "it's perfectly safe as long as circumstances outside of your control don't make it unsafe".
And the yellow light doesn't prevent abrupt stops. It's as legal to stop at a yellow light as it is to go on through. Perhaps it should be illegal to stop at yellow lights?
Perhaps you should just drive defensively. Not because it's illegal not to, but because it's smart.
Pretty much every baseball game or football game or any other sporting event is broadcast to a large audience on radio and/or television, and they explicitly state that the broadcast and the accounts they give of the game are copyrighted. (Not that you can't create your own account of the game, just that you can't rebroadcast theirs. The happenings of the game itself are factual and can't be copyrighted.)
So, yeah, whoever wrote that apparently was ignorant of how copyright works. Broadcasting something, even publicly, doesn't inherently make it public domain.
Accelerating faster to an unavoidable red light both wastes gas unnecessarily, and does nothing to get you to your destination faster.
There's a fairly significant exception to that statement: if the left-turn signal comes at the beginning of the green cycle, but only when there are cars waiting in the left-turn lane. I pass through one of those intersections daily and I absolutely will accelerate to get to that light faster while it's red on the outside chance it's about to turn green, unless I saw it turn red and know I have plenty of time. It's a long light, and you can only turn left on the green arrow.
Only when two vehicles attempt to occupy the same space at the same time does a collision occur, speed differential or not.
It is by definition impossible for two vehicles to attempt to occupy the same space at the same time without there being a speed differential. Quit being obtuse.
Luckily, rear-end collisions are rarely fatal because the speed differential is small.
Unless of course the rear-end collision pushes you into an intersection and you get T-boned by someone who's doing 35 MPH and thought they could safely go because their light was green.
These are among the reasons why speeding is always illegal, but driving slowly usually isn't.
You're talking about legal. I'm talking about safe. Now it's my turn to say it: correlation is not causation.
Especially with the number of uninsured drivers, the safest bet is to avoid being in an accident. And statistically you're less likely to avoid being in an accident if you drive significantly slower than everyone else.
Well, I probably shouldn't have said "one of the most dangerous things you can do". I should have said "one of the most dangerous things you must do", since there are plenty of more dangerous things you could do but shouldn't and don't need to.
There is only one thing that can cause two objects to collide. Speed differential. It isn't just a correlation, it is a causation. If you are going slow and the person behind you is going too fast and he hits you, speed differential is what caused the accident. The fact that he was going too fast might look good on your insurance, but that's about all it's worth.
Does that mean slowing down to turn is dangerous?
Yes, that is exactly what it means. Driving is already a dangerous activity, and statistically speaking, slowing down to turn is one of the most dangerous things you can do while driving. Unfortunately it's not avoidable, but using signals and turn lanes minimizes the risk as much as possible.
the studies you cite don't prove that driving slowly and predictably is dangerous, only that tailgating and overdriving your stopping distance is dangerous
People like you love to claim that the solution to dangerous driving is to not tailgate. That is only half of the solution. The other half involves magically making all of the other drivers around and behind you not tailgate you.
Yeah, I liked that little bit of irony too. Although I'm sure it still didn't strip out any of the fully unnecessary screenshots. I don't need to see his desktop, much less on Windows and OS X.
and combines all of the click-through pages into one document
Does it really? I was under the impression it just stripped out the ads.
You conveniently ignored the quotation which agreed with me and clearly stated, "federal and state studies have consistently shown that the drivers most likely to get into accidents in traffic are those traveling significantly below the average speed", and that a driver going a mere 10 MPH below the average speed is actually more likely to be in an accident than a driver who is going 10 MPH above it.
Since you don't appear to be capable of honest discussion with your whole "my opinion trumps federal and state studies" attitude, this argument is over.
Ugh, no thanks. It's bad enough that scrolling in text boxes does that sort of thing: scrolls to the bottom of the text area and then starts scrolling the page.
If it's dangerous to drive "below the speed limit +/- 10% ish", then this minimum speed limit sign must be dangerous!
Yes. It is. Your point? There are any number of dangerous things you can do legally. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's safer.
And it depends on the prevailing speed, not the speed limit. Speed limits are supposed to be set at the 85th percentile, i.e. a properly-set speed limit will be exceeded by 15% of the traffic.
That's an improper merge. We aren't talking about improper merges.
It would be equally dangerous if they were puttering along at 40 MPH on a downhill slope where the traffic coming from behind them doing 70 MPH couldn't see them until cresting the hill, which isn't a merge at all. So again, your point?
Going too slowly is dangerous.
Q. Isn't slower always safer? A. No, federal and state studies have consistently shown that the drivers most likely to get into accidents in traffic are those traveling significantly below the average speed. According to research, those driving 10 mph slower than the prevailing speed are more likely to be involved in an accident. That means that if the average speed on an interstate is 70 mph, the person traveling at 60 mph is more likely to be involved in an accident than someone going 70 or even 80 mph.
Apparently you've never seen a minimum speed limit sign, or had traffic backed up or seen an accident that was caused because some jackass didn't use the ramp to accelerate up to the speed limit like he was supposed to and instead tried to merge into 65 MPH traffic at 40 MPH.
There is no reason a user-level application should be able to cause a system driver to crash. Sounds like you have a shitty driver. Why are you blaming it on Firefox?
Yeah, I rather enjoyed the graph for page load time labelled "lower scores are better" with Tom's Hardware coming in dead last. I don't think that's what they meant to show by that particular test, but it was amusing.
Every one of these features is completely unique to Safari for Mac.... Like Lion itself, Safari 5.1 supports several multitouch gestures... Swiping upward with two fingers causes the page to scroll down. Likewise, swiping downward with two fingers scrolls the page up.... Using the same two-finger swipe as the scroll gesture, performed left and right, controls navigation. Swiping two fingers to the right navigates to the previous page in your history, and swiping left moves forward.
That's complete bull. My HP laptop supports multitouch gestures just fine, with the exception of the Mac's gestures all being exactly backward. Swiping with two fingers scrolls (in any of the 4 directions, not just vertically). Swiping with three fingers navigates forward/back.
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It depends on how far apart the lights are and how long the cycles are. If there should be 2 full cycles in the time it takes you to get to the light, going twice as fast will get you through a green cycle, but it'll be a full cycle before the one you should have hit.
Driving 70 in a 70 is less dangerous than driving 40 in a 70. Much less. Those around you are never paying enough attention. Therefore it should come as no huge surprise to anyone that counting on it and adjusting your driving habits accordingly will lower your risk of being in an accident.
Abruptly stopping is perfectly safe, as long as the person behind you isn't tailgating.
And we're back to "it's perfectly safe as long as circumstances outside of your control don't make it unsafe".
And the yellow light doesn't prevent abrupt stops. It's as legal to stop at a yellow light as it is to go on through. Perhaps it should be illegal to stop at yellow lights?
Perhaps you should just drive defensively. Not because it's illegal not to, but because it's smart.
Yet it is possible for two vehicles to have a speed differential without occupying the same space at the same time.
Speed differential is the cause of all accidents, but it doesn't always cause an accident.
So the solution is to avoid slowing down at red lights?
Abruptly stopping, yes, should be avoided. That's why there's a yellow light.
Yes, but driving slowly does not cause accidents, just like driving in front of a tailgater does not cause accidents
It is a contributing factor in why you are more likely to be involved in an accident.
Pretty much every baseball game or football game or any other sporting event is broadcast to a large audience on radio and/or television, and they explicitly state that the broadcast and the accounts they give of the game are copyrighted. (Not that you can't create your own account of the game, just that you can't rebroadcast theirs. The happenings of the game itself are factual and can't be copyrighted.)
So, yeah, whoever wrote that apparently was ignorant of how copyright works. Broadcasting something, even publicly, doesn't inherently make it public domain.
Ok. All I'm saying is that multitouch gestures are not at all unique to Mac or Safari.
Accelerating faster to an unavoidable red light both wastes gas unnecessarily, and does nothing to get you to your destination faster.
There's a fairly significant exception to that statement: if the left-turn signal comes at the beginning of the green cycle, but only when there are cars waiting in the left-turn lane. I pass through one of those intersections daily and I absolutely will accelerate to get to that light faster while it's red on the outside chance it's about to turn green, unless I saw it turn red and know I have plenty of time. It's a long light, and you can only turn left on the green arrow.
Performing a work does not revoke your copyright to it.
If the speech was written down, it's a tangible work and therefore copyrighted. If it wasn't, it's not.
Only when two vehicles attempt to occupy the same space at the same time does a collision occur, speed differential or not.
It is by definition impossible for two vehicles to attempt to occupy the same space at the same time without there being a speed differential. Quit being obtuse.
Luckily, rear-end collisions are rarely fatal because the speed differential is small.
Unless of course the rear-end collision pushes you into an intersection and you get T-boned by someone who's doing 35 MPH and thought they could safely go because their light was green.
These are among the reasons why speeding is always illegal, but driving slowly usually isn't.
You're talking about legal. I'm talking about safe. Now it's my turn to say it: correlation is not causation.
Especially with the number of uninsured drivers, the safest bet is to avoid being in an accident. And statistically you're less likely to avoid being in an accident if you drive significantly slower than everyone else.
Well, I probably shouldn't have said "one of the most dangerous things you can do". I should have said "one of the most dangerous things you must do", since there are plenty of more dangerous things you could do but shouldn't and don't need to.
Correlation is not causation.
Really? That's the best you can do?
There is only one thing that can cause two objects to collide. Speed differential. It isn't just a correlation, it is a causation. If you are going slow and the person behind you is going too fast and he hits you, speed differential is what caused the accident. The fact that he was going too fast might look good on your insurance, but that's about all it's worth.
Does that mean slowing down to turn is dangerous?
Yes, that is exactly what it means. Driving is already a dangerous activity, and statistically speaking, slowing down to turn is one of the most dangerous things you can do while driving. Unfortunately it's not avoidable, but using signals and turn lanes minimizes the risk as much as possible.
the studies you cite don't prove that driving slowly and predictably is dangerous, only that tailgating and overdriving your stopping distance is dangerous
People like you love to claim that the solution to dangerous driving is to not tailgate. That is only half of the solution. The other half involves magically making all of the other drivers around and behind you not tailgate you.
Note, I had to remove the greater signs for the code to display on /. It would be nice if there was a [code] tag.
Slashdot allows you to format your posts with HTML. Use < for <. And you removed the less-than signs, not the greater signs.
What does "uncomplete" mean?
it was well publicised that windows 2000 had 65,000 known bugs when released
Sheesh, couldn't they have found another 536 bugs to make it a nice round number?
Add-on Compatibility Reporter is the one you're looking for.
Yeah, I liked that little bit of irony too. Although I'm sure it still didn't strip out any of the fully unnecessary screenshots. I don't need to see his desktop, much less on Windows and OS X.
and combines all of the click-through pages into one document
Does it really? I was under the impression it just stripped out the ads.
You conveniently ignored the quotation which agreed with me and clearly stated, "federal and state studies have consistently shown that the drivers most likely to get into accidents in traffic are those traveling significantly below the average speed", and that a driver going a mere 10 MPH below the average speed is actually more likely to be in an accident than a driver who is going 10 MPH above it.
Since you don't appear to be capable of honest discussion with your whole "my opinion trumps federal and state studies" attitude, this argument is over.
Just wait, once those advertizers dump Flash for HTML5. You'll have no way to block those ads.
Sure you can. Block the <canvas> tag with element hiding rules and/or block the Javascript that makes it run.
Ugh, no thanks. It's bad enough that scrolling in text boxes does that sort of thing: scrolls to the bottom of the text area and then starts scrolling the page.
If it's dangerous to drive "below the speed limit +/- 10% ish", then this minimum speed limit sign must be dangerous!
Yes. It is. Your point? There are any number of dangerous things you can do legally. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's safer.
And it depends on the prevailing speed, not the speed limit. Speed limits are supposed to be set at the 85th percentile, i.e. a properly-set speed limit will be exceeded by 15% of the traffic.
That's an improper merge. We aren't talking about improper merges.
It would be equally dangerous if they were puttering along at 40 MPH on a downhill slope where the traffic coming from behind them doing 70 MPH couldn't see them until cresting the hill, which isn't a merge at all. So again, your point?
Going too slowly is dangerous.
Q. Isn't slower always safer?
A. No, federal and state studies have consistently shown that the drivers most likely to get into accidents in traffic are those traveling significantly below the average speed. According to research, those driving 10 mph slower than the prevailing speed are more likely to be involved in an accident. That means that if the average speed on an interstate is 70 mph, the person traveling at 60 mph is more likely to be involved in an accident than someone going 70 or even 80 mph.
Roundabouts are great, but when there's a lot of traffic, there actually worse than traffic lights
No... they're still worse than traffic lights when there isn't a lot of traffic, too. And they're hell for pedestrians to get across.
Apparently you've never seen a minimum speed limit sign, or had traffic backed up or seen an accident that was caused because some jackass didn't use the ramp to accelerate up to the speed limit like he was supposed to and instead tried to merge into 65 MPH traffic at 40 MPH.
There is no reason a user-level application should be able to cause a system driver to crash. Sounds like you have a shitty driver. Why are you blaming it on Firefox?
Yeah, I rather enjoyed the graph for page load time labelled "lower scores are better" with Tom's Hardware coming in dead last. I don't think that's what they meant to show by that particular test, but it was amusing.
Every one of these features is completely unique to Safari for Mac. ... Like Lion itself, Safari 5.1 supports several multitouch gestures ... Swiping upward with two fingers causes the page to scroll down. Likewise, swiping downward with two fingers scrolls the page up. ... Using the same two-finger swipe as the scroll gesture, performed left and right, controls navigation. Swiping two fingers to the right navigates to the previous page in your history, and swiping left moves forward.
That's complete bull. My HP laptop supports multitouch gestures just fine, with the exception of the Mac's gestures all being exactly backward. Swiping with two fingers scrolls (in any of the 4 directions, not just vertically). Swiping with three fingers navigates forward/back.