Methinks they doth protest too much.

"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi) 06/17/2019 at 00:14 • Filed to: Rants, Traffic Jams

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I’ve just been to a job interview in Tauranga, a town a few hours south of where I live. One of the supposed attractions of living there is “get away from big city traffic”.

It’s now an hour since I left the interview and I’ve travelled about 5 miles. Traffic is slow enough that posting on Oppo while driving seems like a perfectly sane idea. And it’s not even rush hour.

You’re not selling yourselves  here , guys!

PS9 > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/17/2019 at 00:38

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Big city traffic can only end when cars fly. But then big cities will become REALLY big; continent sized, crossing oceans. Then even air traffic will be problematic again and there will be no solution.

Humans can only cause traffic. Get rid of the humans, and the traffic will go with them. 

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > PS9 06/17/2019 at 00:49

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Fully autonomous vehicles with car-to-car communication will help. If “drivers” were non- territorial and able to follow smoothly and to negotiate and execute perfect high-speed merges and crossings, we could jam a heck of a lot more traffic on existing roads.

It’ll be a while before the density of old-school meatware controlled cars is low enough to make that work though

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/17/2019 at 01:09

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Move to invercargill



Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > pip bip - choose Corrour 06/17/2019 at 01:15

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Yes, but then I’d be in Invercargill. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/17/2019 at 03:37

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you make that sound like a bad thing

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 06/17/2019 at 03:38

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Is that a failure of cars or of infrastructure? A one lane main road ( presumably to Auckland?) is asking for trouble...