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How Much Road Capacity is Wasted Due to Poor Driving?
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June 21st 05, 09:28 PM
Alex Rodriguez
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>Scott en Aztlán wrote:
>> Anyone want to take a guess as to how much of our existing road
>> capacity is wasted by LLBs, poor mergers, Sloths, rubberneckers,
>> people who don't speed up when the traffic ahead of them does, etc.
>> etc.?
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>> I'd say the waste is at least 40%, i.e. that our roads never achieve
>> more than 60% of their true capacity due to incompetent drivers.
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>> What's your guess?
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>Until cars are computer controlled and linked to a central controller,
>driving will be horribly inefficient.
Uh, that won't be driving anymore. That would be riding.
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