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Ever been to Milton Keynes? That’s another fun place for roundabouts . For our overseas friends, MK is a “new town” (that is, a planned town, rather than one that spontaneously “grew”). Highly unusually for Britain, it’s laid out in a grid, with roundabouts at all the intersections.
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Yes, in the days before sat nav you could go round and round all day and not be able to find your way out .
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That is DC. Look at a street map of DC. For the record: the circles were designed to serve as artillery emplacements for mob control. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nfant_plan.jpg Last edited by fjtorres; 11-20-2018 at 06:04 PM. |
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I’m not doubting for a moment that Washington DC is a perfectly ghastly place to drive. I wouldn’t dream of driving in London. The facts, however, do support the idea that roundabouts are both more efficient and safer than junctions with traffic lights. |
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There is an old adage whose relevance has not faded: too err is human, but it takes a computer to really <bleep> up.
Still, I can't see any way it's not going to happen - eventually. I think there's a good chance that the long term averaged stats are likely to come out in favour of self-driven even if the occasional self-driven does go completely haywire (or gets hacked) and causes a high blip on the graph. |
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Quite a few small southern towns converted the center of their towns in to roundabouts. Monticello, Florida and Marietta, Georgia are two. Traffic flow is very fluid and much safer.
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Continuing with roundabouts, I "love" some of the new roundabouts in my area. The city didn't get rid of the 4 way stop signs, they just added an island in the middle of the intersection making it near impossible for any vehicle larger than a Scion IQ to go around the roundabout without clipping a curb thus yielding the worst of both worlds -- a scenario dear to a city planner's heart.
Anyone else remember the Mythbuster's episode MythBusters: Four-way stop vs. Roundabout? They at least had the common sense to build their roundabout large enough to be useful. Last edited by DNSB; 11-21-2018 at 02:10 AM. Reason: Who needs artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so common? |
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I think that was a similar conclusion many drew and even I admitted that anything else is speculation. But what about the /futtuuuuuuurrrreeeeeee/
*queues the twilight zone music* I assume any decent editor can copy and paste stories with similar stories, change the characters and scenery enough to call it theirs. The first story generators might only do something like that. There are many different ways such information could be utilized according to pragmatism and or profitability, both a constantly moving target. Maybe because my age has a 3 in front of it now, I think about the use of technology in surveillance and despite what others have said, there are trucks that are self driving to some extent that have been in operation for a couple years. Companies like Walmart have placed orders for the Tesla semi trucks.... and yeah, this technology (automation through algorithms, AI whatever) is going everywhere, eventually. It's the timeframe that is iffy. I am all for the roundabouts though. Wouldn't want to drive through one but I have never had my driving license so it is all just theoretical. They are fun as a passenger? lol Feel like I have said the same thing in different ways a few times but it isn't important. I just enjoy reading what others have to say about this topic and the segues only enhance the conversation in new an inventive ways! Just proud to have broken out of the lounge Quote:
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But, there are industrial domains where programmers have to stick to a very high quality standard. One of them is aeronautics (and, currently, the automobile industry is lagging very far behind that). Self-driving cars are actually likely to induce much better practices, simply because the makers of self-driving cars have to convince the general public (and decision makers) that their stuff is really safe to allow on the roads. There is a huge perception barrier to overcome. (What humans have, and computers only have when they have been explicitly programmed for, is "oh sh**" reflexes: when something that should never happen, happens, they try to improvise an emergency response. My guess is that's where your adage comes from - a computer with no such "unexpected situation" failsafes will happily go on doing whatever it was doing, increasing the damage tenfold) |
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