all the scary shit automatics did (changing gears because I released the gas a bit, so I can't accelerate for a full second now, and I'm halfway into a lane going 20mph faster than my current lane!) doesn't happen,
I know my car well enough at this point that I can tell when I'll have an upwards gear change and can adjust speed accordingly to delay or force it to happen. It's simply knowing your car; manuals enforce it, you have to make a conscious effort to do it for automatics (and too few do).
and your decision making process relies more heavily on their actions. Failure to signal, slowing down before merging into an empty merge lane (i.e. offramp), tailgating, all these things become more emphasized to you, and you're forced to react to stabilize the situation, instead of just cruising along and relying on your brakes if it continues to get out of hand.
But I do that already with my automatic! In fact, I play a game while I drive: how long can I go without relying on my brakes? Some days I can make my whole round trip to and from work without using them at all excluding enforced stops and turning.
Only if there's gaps for the cars to zipper together and no one tries jumping the queue driving on the shoulder for an additional four car lengths and THEN jamming his hood in the line.
Like communism, late merging works in theory, but each fails to take into account the assholic nature of man.
You are a saviour, magificient four digit-UID person. I spent a half hour looking for that site and my google-fu was failing miserably. I have just bookmarked it.
The real answer is that a non-distracted driver's reaction time is = 0.5 seconds.
Key word bolded. Maybe he was implying average driver instead of just the non-distracted ones.
Anyway, I'd rather people believe they need a second to react and have a half-second grace period rather than give themselves only a half-second and misreact by a sixteenth-second.
I'll be honest, I don't think I could ever handle a manual*. I have a hard enough time worrying about all the other idiots on the road and then tack on clutch popping and gear changing...
*Ok, I probably could handle it once it becomes routine, but it's the period before that that gets me paranoid.
And not take the turn at 5mph when you finally do get to make it.
There's one left turn I have to deal with on a daily basis that goes onto a freeway onramp. The lights are timed very nicely that occassionally you can just zip right on. So, in ideal conditions, I go 45, 45, 45, 40, 35, 40, 50, 60... Nice, gentle, smooth turn.
Then there's the people in cars with centers of gravity even lower than mine, and I'm reduced to a 15mph crawl as they navigate a left turn. I've taken right turns at 20 and not worried about rolling... (25 gets sketchy, I wouldn't risk it higher...) and lefts are even easier. (I don't know my upper limit on those offhand though.)
Yet these same nutbags who take the left turn like a geriatric with glaucoma plow the onramp at 80+ once they straighten out.
Similar...why do people feel the need to take a left turn as a pair of sharp 45 degree jerks instead of a 90 degree arc?
I make it a point that when someone's trying to pass me to actually let off the gas a smidge and help them get around faster. I know all they're concerned about is passing me, whether as an internal score or compensation for...something else. I'd hate to deprive them of their little joys of life.
Yes...and when it works, it's wonderful. I can understand why this would be a law in Germany. (Hell, Germany, I'd assume that's an SOP.)
Here, though, there's people in the lane that's ending that, come hell or high water, WILL pass you, even if you're in front of them, even if it means driving on the shoulder and flooring the gas to do so...never mind I've got seven car lengths of open road behind me.
It's not a fake laser that produces green, it's a real laser that produces fake green. The lasers in current green laser lights emit infared, not green that just get filtered through emerald glasses from Oz.
You can rack up 800 hours playing Warcraft, Diablo II, Starcraft, Everquest (...if you still play it), Halo, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat... but it's more often the same 5, 30, 59 minutes over and over again as opposed to unique content. Play de_dust, and that's 5 minutes of footage, after that it's just gameplay.
Assuming you're counting repeat play as gametime, yes, you could hit 800 hours. But the same could be said for Counter-Strike, Halo, or another other multiplayer game.
But there's not 800 hours of unique footage. It's the same 1 to 30 minutes over and over again.
(GP made the mistake in changing 'footage' from the original Yee letter to 'gameplay' in his responce which changes the metric dramatically.)
why do dogs turn their heads away when you blow lightly in their faces, yet will always hang their heads out of an auto window when the car is going over 100 miles per hour?
Honestly. To quote her mother from the link, "Something like that should never have happened. There should have been cones in place, there should have been a man in place."
Ok, first, CONES do not stop someone. They're just to provide a more obvious warning sign (as if the maintenance trucks aren't enough). And they want someone to stand guard over the manhole at all times? Hey, how about we place people by every light pole in case a texter walks into one? Or crossing guards at every street? Oh, but you don't want to pay for them I bet.
Your daughter ignored her surroundings and got a very distinct reminder to not do it again. If this happened in a savannah, she'd be tiger food by now.
Even if it was an attack ordered by North Korea, there's no chance the actual payloads originated there. You could likely fit all of NK's network on a Class C without NAT and have room to spare.
They're rocket scientists that have to deal with demands of people that think potato ends with the letter 'e' and that the internet is like indoor plumbing.
It came from on high that the ISS had to dock not only with the Shuttle but also the Soyuz. So the rocket scientists had to adapt.
Space flight is inherently dangerous, but that won't stop people from wanting it.
As far as calling manned missions useless, Sample #15415 would disagree. Rovers can do a lot, but they have limited mobility and distance, can't chip off samples, and can't decide if this sample or that sample is more important.
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all the scary shit automatics did (changing gears because I released the gas a bit, so I can't accelerate for a full second now, and I'm halfway into a lane going 20mph faster than my current lane!) doesn't happen,
I know my car well enough at this point that I can tell when I'll have an upwards gear change and can adjust speed accordingly to delay or force it to happen. It's simply knowing your car; manuals enforce it, you have to make a conscious effort to do it for automatics (and too few do).
and your decision making process relies more heavily on their actions. Failure to signal, slowing down before merging into an empty merge lane (i.e. offramp), tailgating, all these things become more emphasized to you, and you're forced to react to stabilize the situation, instead of just cruising along and relying on your brakes if it continues to get out of hand.
But I do that already with my automatic! In fact, I play a game while I drive: how long can I go without relying on my brakes? Some days I can make my whole round trip to and from work without using them at all excluding enforced stops and turning.
Incorrect.
http://trafficwaves.org/
Only if there's gaps for the cars to zipper together and no one tries jumping the queue driving on the shoulder for an additional four car lengths and THEN jamming his hood in the line.
Like communism, late merging works in theory, but each fails to take into account the assholic nature of man.
You are a saviour, magificient four digit-UID person. I spent a half hour looking for that site and my google-fu was failing miserably. I have just bookmarked it.
The real answer is that a non-distracted driver's reaction time is = 0.5 seconds.
Key word bolded. Maybe he was implying average driver instead of just the non-distracted ones.
Anyway, I'd rather people believe they need a second to react and have a half-second grace period rather than give themselves only a half-second and misreact by a sixteenth-second.
Some of us are pussies. (Safety razors, or worse, electrics...)
I'll be honest, I don't think I could ever handle a manual*. I have a hard enough time worrying about all the other idiots on the road and then tack on clutch popping and gear changing...
*Ok, I probably could handle it once it becomes routine, but it's the period before that that gets me paranoid.
And not take the turn at 5mph when you finally do get to make it.
There's one left turn I have to deal with on a daily basis that goes onto a freeway onramp. The lights are timed very nicely that occassionally you can just zip right on. So, in ideal conditions, I go 45, 45, 45, 40, 35, 40, 50, 60... Nice, gentle, smooth turn.
Then there's the people in cars with centers of gravity even lower than mine, and I'm reduced to a 15mph crawl as they navigate a left turn. I've taken right turns at 20 and not worried about rolling... (25 gets sketchy, I wouldn't risk it higher...) and lefts are even easier. (I don't know my upper limit on those offhand though.)
Yet these same nutbags who take the left turn like a geriatric with glaucoma plow the onramp at 80+ once they straighten out.
Similar...why do people feel the need to take a left turn as a pair of sharp 45 degree jerks instead of a 90 degree arc?
I make it a point that when someone's trying to pass me to actually let off the gas a smidge and help them get around faster. I know all they're concerned about is passing me, whether as an internal score or compensation for...something else. I'd hate to deprive them of their little joys of life.
Yes...and when it works, it's wonderful. I can understand why this would be a law in Germany. (Hell, Germany, I'd assume that's an SOP.)
Here, though, there's people in the lane that's ending that, come hell or high water, WILL pass you, even if you're in front of them, even if it means driving on the shoulder and flooring the gas to do so...never mind I've got seven car lengths of open road behind me.
Good point...if they were really simulating driving, the person tying their shoelace would continue walking forward while tying said shoelace.
Way to take something out of context.
It's not a fake laser that produces green, it's a real laser that produces fake green. The lasers in current green laser lights emit infared, not green that just get filtered through emerald glasses from Oz.
Again, this is all dependedent on getting manager buy-in.
And therein lies the rub. When the managers want the ability to install their own stuff and have the ability to override any policy I want...
Well, let's just say I'm not surprised that their systems tend to be some of the ugliest ones I have to deal with.
And the copy on the USB drive came from...
Gameplay != Footage.
You can rack up 800 hours playing Warcraft, Diablo II, Starcraft, Everquest (...if you still play it), Halo, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat... but it's more often the same 5, 30, 59 minutes over and over again as opposed to unique content. Play de_dust, and that's 5 minutes of footage, after that it's just gameplay.
Assuming you're counting repeat play as gametime, yes, you could hit 800 hours. But the same could be said for Counter-Strike, Halo, or another other multiplayer game.
But there's not 800 hours of unique footage. It's the same 1 to 30 minutes over and over again.
(GP made the mistake in changing 'footage' from the original Yee letter to 'gameplay' in his responce which changes the metric dramatically.)
why do dogs turn their heads away when you blow lightly in their faces, yet will always hang their heads out of an auto window when the car is going over 100 miles per hour?
Two words: breath mint.
Honestly. To quote her mother from the link, "Something like that should never have happened. There should have been cones in place, there should have been a man in place."
Ok, first, CONES do not stop someone. They're just to provide a more obvious warning sign (as if the maintenance trucks aren't enough). And they want someone to stand guard over the manhole at all times? Hey, how about we place people by every light pole in case a texter walks into one? Or crossing guards at every street? Oh, but you don't want to pay for them I bet.
Your daughter ignored her surroundings and got a very distinct reminder to not do it again. If this happened in a savannah, she'd be tiger food by now.
Even if it was an attack ordered by North Korea, there's no chance the actual payloads originated there. You could likely fit all of NK's network on a Class C without NAT and have room to spare.
Since when is having more data points a bad thing?
Because over long enough time it won't be just 'one more object.' It'll be 'many more objects.'
They're rocket scientists that have to deal with demands of people that think potato ends with the letter 'e' and that the internet is like indoor plumbing.
It came from on high that the ISS had to dock not only with the Shuttle but also the Soyuz. So the rocket scientists had to adapt.
What has been done? Published? Learned? ... that couldn't have been learned for a 1/1000th of the price with automated flights?
Having astronauts survive in orbit for months on end?
I'm certain the 'too big' remark was a joke about certain companies in the US being 'too big' to fail.
Space flight is inherently dangerous, but that won't stop people from wanting it.
As far as calling manned missions useless, Sample #15415 would disagree. Rovers can do a lot, but they have limited mobility and distance, can't chip off samples, and can't decide if this sample or that sample is more important.