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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:57 +0000

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:06:16 +0000

Josh, next time you should do it with a friend trailing you by 3 minutes to see if laminar flow was maintained. If someone wishes to subsidize my trip to New Zealand, I’m happy to volunteer myself for this bit of science.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:46:05 +0000

I read this yesterday, and thought I would try an experiment, because I have often noticed the whole ‘shock wave jam’ effect on a smaller scall as I drive home. Auckland traffic is very stop start and you can see the mini jams rolling back throught the traffic.
So I drove home at 20 Kph (once I hit traffic, I’m not a total jerk). And I maintained that speed the whole way home.
Of course I didn’t get home any faster, but I also never stopped. And the same car that I started out behind, I ended up behind so I lost no ground.
I was pretty hard to stay disciplined as the cars ahead of me took off hundreds of metres up the road, only to sit there until I almost ran up their arse.
It would have been interesting to see how the traffic behind me was affected (I probably just raised blood pressure).

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Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:22:49 +0000

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By: Steve Gough

Steve Gough — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:22:41 +0000

Very interesting, thanks. Those slugs of traffic are also called “kinematic waves,” and were described by river scientists of all people; see paper here: http://bit.ly/9FyvxO . You’ll learn that tailgating is a big cause of them; if people would just space out a bit, the jams wouldn’t be so severe.

By: namhenderson

namhenderson — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:38:34 +0000

Love this post. The whole embodied cybernetics aspect of this chapter really got to me as well…

By: Cyborg Traffic Cops | Quiet Babylon

Cyborg Traffic Cops | Quiet Babylon — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:59:20 +0000

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