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Racing to get to a red light and wait...
Scott en Aztlán wrote:
>That puts me far enough ahead to make it through >the NEXT light - the one that you were too slow to reach before it >turned red. >Checkmate, Sloth! Did you ever stop to think that you were playing all by yourself? That no one else particularly cared who got to the light first? People who play chess all by themselves are very, very lonely. And overcompetitive. Besides, the guy you passed will usually catch up. Next light, the one after, whenever. |
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In article >,
Victor Smith > wrote: > If the shoe fits, wear it. My last participation in this thread, just to note how sad and ugly it has wound up. This thread personifies why traffic is the way it is, with all its unnecessary tragedy and expense. To understand why insurance premiums are so high, re-read this thread. Terribly unfortunate that people just can't seem to see any other way to share the road. Reluctantly killfiled by subject: line |
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==Street roadracing rules== 1. The car in front at the finish wins. 2. The leading car chooses the course. 3. The finish is when the stalker quits the course. Would these simple rules have applied in this case? |
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Brent P wrote:
>> Besides, the guy you passed will usually catch up. Next light, the one >> after, whenever. >No, he won't. The only time that is possible is when a similiar sloth is >blocking the road ahead. Depends on what you mean by "sloth". Someone poking along below the limit is someon nice to be in front of. Just make the moves gently and safely, without cutting in front of someone and then hitting the brakes just to be in front of him. If the sloth is at approximately the limit, he's no sloth. If most drivers appear to be sloths, and you are going left, right, left, right, left, right, you are probably going too fast. The sloths won't catch up to you. But, in general, average traffic seems to do just that, in my observation. |
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Brent P wrote:
> wrote: > >> Besides, the guy you passed will usually catch up. Next light, the one >> after, whenever. > > No, he won't. The only time that is possible is when a similiar sloth is > blocking the road ahead. In my area, that does qualify as "usually" |
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In article >, Victor Smith wrote:
> Baloney. More likely he will get in the way. There is absolutely no > correlation between people who rush to red lights and people who > enhance the flow of traffic. You've never paid close enough attention then. That's all I can say. > Once activity is stupid, and one is > smart. One activity is nerdy and ugly, the other smooth and sexy. > People who rush to red lights make everybody wait for them to > accelerate away. They have no sense of timing, and no inclination to > enhance traffic flow. You didn't read my posts then. There are some who are idiots just like the sloth. However there are conditions where one is required to do exactly that or pay a penalty. For instance, I just drove on a road where there three lights close together that are not timed well together. If there is a red at the first light I want to be in the lead spot in one of the lanes. Because one needs to hammer the acceleration to make the next two on green. If one fails to accelerate, then it's three reds in a row. The sloth has no sense of this timing. Sure, I'd love to time it so that I was moving over the line as the first light turned green, but someone will cut me off and then accelerate slowly if I don't go right up the line ASAP. Another thing the coaster has no sense of is that traffic lights are sensor driven. There is a triggering window for the sensor in the light's programing. Some lights only go green for the directions where vehicles have been sensed within that timing window. This later type of traffic light is very aggrivating to behind a coaster because it means waiting there for two cycles because the coaster didn't understand that he had tigger the sensor in a timely manner. If lights still in large part worked on fixed timings the coasters would have some point, but they don't. Fixed timing lights are the minority where I drive. Sensor driven lights are the rule and it takes a different method of driving for them. |
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In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> The vast majority of people who are driving a motor vehicle on the > road are doing so to get someplace, and they wish to do so as quickly > and efficiently as possible. This is the "game" I am talking about, > and I guarantee I'm not the only one playing it. > > By planning several "moves" ahead and positioning my vehicle to avoid > being blocked by Sloths, I can achieve that goal. The Sloth Coaster > never does. What I loved about my driving experience in Germany was the lack of sloth. Everybody did what is being called a game in this thread. Everyone apparently knew how to get the most traffic through the smallest space in the shortest time and did their part. They all seemed to know how the lights were timed, they paid attention to detail. There were no sloth, no coasters, no self-serving, self-rightous assholes blocking traffic. Here at home, if I'm in the 5th car back from the line at a red signal it's questionable if I'll make it through. In Germany it didn't matter if I was 1st or 15th, everyone would start moving together, on green more or less, without that assinine slinky effect in the USA. |
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