Going a lower speed can limit the total throughput of a freeway, but having a car accident or a series of braking because someone passess makes things alot worse.
Going a lower speed can limit the total throughput of a freeway, but having a car accident or a series of braking because someone passess makes things alot worse.
I live in a small city with a population of just over 50,000 and nearly as many more in nearby suburbs and sprawl. I can say with complete certainty that slow drivers cause significantly more congestion than occasional problems caused by those going too fast. I see traffic messes several times each week caused by someone going slower than the fl
The speed limit is there for a reason - it's a safe speed to drive. If you disagree, don't blame the people following the law. Take it to whatever legislative body sets the numbers.
The speed limit also provides a nice method of synchronization between all the drivers. If everybody goes at the posted speed, there are fewer slower drivers, and the rate can be sustained for longer periods of time because fewer accidents will happen.
Now, if we could only make the silly drivers understand that the fastest w
If everybody goes at the posted speed, there are fewer slower drivers, and the rate can be sustained for longer periods of time because fewer accidents will happen.
But that doesn't happen. Not everybody drives the posted speed. I grew up in the sticks, and I currently live in L.A. In neither place does everybody drive at the limit.
Do you have any idea of how dangerous it is to be behind some drooler who enters the freeway while going 40? I see this happen every day. The speed limit on the freeway is between 55 and 70, yet you have to deal with entering at 40 and trying to deal with merging into a lane going 20mph or so faster than you.
Do the cops ticket those clowns? No way; there isn't enough revenue to bother.
Doesn't slower speed increase congestion? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doesn't slower speed increase congestion? (Score:2)
Re:Doesn't slower speed increase congestion? (Score:3, Interesting)
I live in a small city with a population of just over 50,000 and nearly as many more in nearby suburbs and sprawl. I can say with complete certainty that slow drivers cause significantly more congestion than occasional problems caused by those going too fast. I see traffic messes several times each week caused by someone going slower than the fl
Re:Doesn't slower speed increase congestion? (Score:3, Informative)
The speed limit also provides a nice method of synchronization between all the drivers. If everybody goes at the posted speed, there are fewer slower drivers, and the rate can be sustained for longer periods of time because fewer accidents will happen.
Now, if we could only make the silly drivers understand that the fastest w
Re:Doesn't slower speed increase congestion? (Score:3, Insightful)
But that doesn't happen. Not everybody drives the posted speed. I grew up in the sticks, and I currently live in L.A. In neither place does everybody drive at the limit.
Do you have any idea of how dangerous it is to be behind some drooler who enters the freeway while going 40? I see this happen every day. The speed limit on the freeway is between 55 and 70, yet you have to deal with entering at 40 and trying to deal with merging into a lane going 20mph or so faster than you.
Do the cops ticket those clowns? No way; there isn't enough revenue to bother.