Don't count on the schools to do this. Parents need to spend a lot of time teaching these skills. An important concept is that just because many people/reporters say the same thing, it doesn't mean its true. I find examples of stuff that gets repeated in multiple news articles that is wrong, then show them how to figure out its wrong. My one kid is a natural skeptic, the other tends to believe everything. Personal traits are a big factor
"With big data, and more data available through everything from health records and fitness apps to public data such as high school graduation rates and population demographics, we are increasingly able to compare what happens with what would have happened without a particular intervention...with luck, some communities will lead by example, and policy-makers will take note."
Or we could take this data, selectively pull out what supports our political beliefs, to reinforce them and tell others they are wrong.
But you want people in front of you to slow down, and slow down everyone else in the next lane over, so that you can go faster.
No, I want them to choose the most expeditious way to follow the common sense rule. They are in the passing lane, so pass and get over. Its not that hard. If you are in a line of cars, keep up and when the car when the car in front of you properly gets over, you can pass them or get over behind them.
Its not that hard. It is an extremely rare occasion when I can't get over to allow someone to pass within a very short period of time. Yes, often there is an idiot in front of us all that's not following the rules and merging back right, and causing left lane congestion. That is the left lane laggard at fault is those people cause much traffic congestion. When the car in front of you does move right and you are not going to pass, then move right behind them. Otherwise pass expeditiously and get over the very next chance to let the driver behind you pass.
Passing on the left implies that you need to let others do the same. Please don't be the asshole that thinks they should decide how fast others behind should drive. If there is nobody in front of you and someone behind you (or approaching you), you should be actively pursing a right merge to let them pass. Accelerate if you have to, that helps the most.
1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic
You have it the wrong way round: you'd be better off slowing down the faster cars, since roads have more capacity with slower vehicles due to the reduced stopping distances.
If cars move faster, they are on the road for a shorter amount of time and therefore if all cars are moving faster there are less cars on the road at any given time. Increasing average speed decreases time of congestion. But there is no solution for roads that are way over congested, and cars on those roads will slow down regardless because they are forced to.
However, congestion can form on a road due to left lane laggards, and often does, even when the number of cars on the road is significantly less than capacity.
And that attitude is the one that causes congestion. It is childish and selfish, and a sign of low intelligence. You apparrently have an inability to understand the benefits to all of following common sense rules of the road.
I don't intentionally slow people down behind me. I get over. There is no good reason not to.
My math says on overage we are mediocre at best and 1/2 of us are worse than that.
One personal observation: being younger does not make you a better driver, it just means your more likely to think your not as bad a driver as you are. Experience is likely to teach you differently, according to my math.
If traffic to my right is slower than I am, then I can be in the left lane whether you are 'impeded' or not. Period.
No. I guess you were never taught the common sense rules of the road. Use the left lane to pass, and get over so others can pass you on the left. If you slow them down, you are being a jerk, and you are impeding traffice.
You must be one the needs those 'keep right except to pass' and 'slower traffic keep right' signs to tell you how to drive properly. Do you ignore them?
Here's the thing people misunderstand: "keep left except to pass" doesn't mean "move right if someone wants to go faster than you".
If you don't move over, the person behind you can't pass on the left. If there is someone in front of you on the left, and they are not moving over, then they are the problem.
The ticket is not for going too slow, it is for impeding others and not properly using the passing lane. It sounds to me like you are one of the left lane laggards, trying to defend your poor driving behavior. Please be considerate of others and help us all by following the common sense rules of the road.
The reason math won is that you don't need to dampen spike if nobody creates spike.Theory vs reality.
Even math can't prevent the inevitable occasional need for traffic to slow down. For example, a deer won't take time to learn the math before it crosses the road.
Common sense says we don't need math to show what is slowing down traffic. Maintaining distance really means matching speed, acceleration, and deceleration. If those happen distance itself becomes less of a key factor. Added distance is just an aid for drivers who aren't good at staying with traffic flow.
If you want traffic improvement,
1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic
2) get everyone to be expeditious when intersection lights turn green
3) teach people not to contribute to traffic compression waves by over decelerating and then under accelerating
I use PLEX and KODI. I found that the music libraries were easier to manage on PLEX, but KODI serves my video library needs. I use the PLEX app inside Kodi for music playback, one reason because no other PLEX client approaches have gapless playback.
Just look at a chart of wind output; Scroll through and see just how often then entire wind production of Germany falls to very low levels. It is quite commonplace.
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Don't count on the schools to do this. Parents need to spend a lot of time teaching these skills. An important concept is that just because many people/reporters say the same thing, it doesn't mean its true. I find examples of stuff that gets repeated in multiple news articles that is wrong, then show them how to figure out its wrong. My one kid is a natural skeptic, the other tends to believe everything. Personal traits are a big factor
"With big data, and more data available through everything from health records and fitness apps to public data such as high school graduation rates and population demographics, we are increasingly able to compare what happens with what would have happened without a particular intervention...with luck, some communities will lead by example, and policy-makers will take note."
Or we could take this data, selectively pull out what supports our political beliefs, to reinforce them and tell others they are wrong.
But you want people in front of you to slow down, and slow down everyone else in the next lane over, so that you can go faster.
No, I want them to choose the most expeditious way to follow the common sense rule. They are in the passing lane, so pass and get over. Its not that hard. If you are in a line of cars, keep up and when the car when the car in front of you properly gets over, you can pass them or get over behind them.
Its not that hard. It is an extremely rare occasion when I can't get over to allow someone to pass within a very short period of time. Yes, often there is an idiot in front of us all that's not following the rules and merging back right, and causing left lane congestion. That is the left lane laggard at fault is those people cause much traffic congestion. When the car in front of you does move right and you are not going to pass, then move right behind them. Otherwise pass expeditiously and get over the very next chance to let the driver behind you pass.
Passing on the left implies that you need to let others do the same. Please don't be the asshole that thinks they should decide how fast others behind should drive. If there is nobody in front of you and someone behind you (or approaching you), you should be actively pursing a right merge to let them pass. Accelerate if you have to, that helps the most.
1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic
You have it the wrong way round: you'd be better off slowing down the faster cars, since roads have more capacity with slower vehicles due to the reduced stopping distances.
If cars move faster, they are on the road for a shorter amount of time and therefore if all cars are moving faster there are less cars on the road at any given time. Increasing average speed decreases time of congestion. But there is no solution for roads that are way over congested, and cars on those roads will slow down regardless because they are forced to.
However, congestion can form on a road due to left lane laggards, and often does, even when the number of cars on the road is significantly less than capacity.
Then you just can't pass. Tough shit.
And that attitude is the one that causes congestion. It is childish and selfish, and a sign of low intelligence. You apparrently have an inability to understand the benefits to all of following common sense rules of the road.
I don't intentionally slow people down behind me. I get over. There is no good reason not to.
There once was a yellow fence
that had no intelligence
This is its post.
Happy New Year I wish y'all
Keep it real, not artificial.
My math says on overage we are mediocre at best and 1/2 of us are worse than that. One personal observation: being younger does not make you a better driver, it just means your more likely to think your not as bad a driver as you are. Experience is likely to teach you differently, according to my math.
I wish I were younger, regardless.
If traffic to my right is slower than I am, then I can be in the left lane whether you are 'impeded' or not. Period.
No. I guess you were never taught the common sense rules of the road. Use the left lane to pass, and get over so others can pass you on the left. If you slow them down, you are being a jerk, and you are impeding traffice.
You must be one the needs those 'keep right except to pass' and 'slower traffic keep right' signs to tell you how to drive properly. Do you ignore them?
I assume I'm a better driver than you are.
Your assumptions have no basis.
Here's the thing people misunderstand: "keep left except to pass" doesn't mean "move right if someone wants to go faster than you".
If you don't move over, the person behind you can't pass on the left. If there is someone in front of you on the left, and they are not moving over, then they are the problem.
The ticket is not for going too slow, it is for impeding others and not properly using the passing lane. It sounds to me like you are one of the left lane laggards, trying to defend your poor driving behavior. Please be considerate of others and help us all by following the common sense rules of the road.
Well that is a stupid law then. You can't have one law requiring people to break another law.
It is not requiring you do break a law, it is requiring you to get over.
The NJ law is keep right except to pass. No mention is made of speed at all.
Exactly, it doesn't matter even if you are going faster than the speed limit.
The reason math won is that you don't need to dampen spike if nobody creates spike.Theory vs reality.
Even math can't prevent the inevitable occasional need for traffic to slow down. For example, a deer won't take time to learn the math before it crosses the road.
Changing my driving won't fix left lane laggards from slowing others down.
In NJ, left lane laggard tickets can be issued even if going above the speed limit. We need that law everywhere.
Slow traffic is caused by trying to put more cars on a stretch of road than it can handle.
True in many but not all cases. If you increase throughput by managing congestion, you reduce the number of cars on the road at a given time.
Common sense says we don't need math to show what is slowing down traffic. Maintaining distance really means matching speed, acceleration, and deceleration. If those happen distance itself becomes less of a key factor. Added distance is just an aid for drivers who aren't good at staying with traffic flow.
If you want traffic improvement,
1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic
2) get everyone to be expeditious when intersection lights turn green
3) teach people not to contribute to traffic compression waves by over decelerating and then under accelerating
I thought people were using Plex now?
I use PLEX and KODI. I found that the music libraries were easier to manage on PLEX, but KODI serves my video library needs. I use the PLEX app inside Kodi for music playback, one reason because no other PLEX client approaches have gapless playback.
We're metric in Canada and you can still buy a foot long hotdog, as well as quarter pounders etc.
You can thank us for that.
Metric is fine for labs and label. For discussion, too many syllables. Utterly unpoetic.
Roller coasters are fun, and make life enjoyable. Driving across Kansas? Not so much...
No doubt. Footlong hotdogs couldn't exist in the metric system. That alone is enough reason.
How many cubic centimeters in a milliliter? 1.0000.
How many kg in a liter of water? 1.0000.
How boring. Not even remotely interesting. Where are all the good metric jokes? .. How far would you go the meet her..... is that it?
Just look at a chart of wind output; Scroll through and see just how often then entire wind production of Germany falls to very low levels. It is quite commonplace.
https://www.energy-charts.de/p...
I regularly find what you say and post is completely wrong, and prove it with references, so I'll just ignore your crap today.