Show HN: A Simple Highway Simulator
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Show HN: A Simple Highway Simulator
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#2Some bugs (cars not always breaking when another is standing still ahead; cars crashing at the beginning if you hit launch too quickly), but overall a fun toy to play with. I would like to know what realistic values are though: I know that 200ms reaction time is a good case, but what are actual average cases? It should be set to that by default. Or acceleration speed, is 5km/h realistic? 10? When set to 5, I cannot simulate a normal highway (they'll never go over 100) because the track is fairly short.
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#3What about prioritizing vehicles? Imagine - if all cars drive along in a well-defined path, will we end up with making assassinations easier? That's a stretch (I mean, not like exceptions couldn't be made for POTUS and such), but I wonder about what sort of consequences would arise from having predictable traffic.
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#4Very interesting, for sure.
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#5What is the number for the Simple Highway Police Department, I just witnessed 3 hit and runs back-to-back and would like to report them!
Neat idea and while it's still at a very basic stage it'll be cool to see this evolve into something that could eventually be used by traffic controllers!
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#6Some bugs (cars not always breaking when another is standing still ahead; cars crashing at the beginning if you hit launch too quickly), but overall a fun toy to play with. I would like to know what realistic values are though: I know that 200ms reaction time is a good case, but what are actual average cases? It should be set to that by default. Or acceleration speed, is 5km/h realistic? 10? When set to 5, I cannot s…
I think the braking is a feature not a bug. See the "reaction time" I'd assume that means that some just aren't reacting in time to not hit the car ahead.
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#7This is cool! I always wanted to make something like this for intersections and randomize the response time in an effort to prove whether or not people who pull out slower at red lights cause others to miss the lights or not. Just a neat experiment as well!
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#8Set the driver reaction time to 500ms, with 90 cars launched a minute, and you'll see what my daily commute is like.
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#9Those cars are using indicators, this is clearly not based in California.
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#10This is cool! I always wanted to make something like this for intersections and randomize the response time in an effort to prove whether or not people who pull out slower at red lights cause others to miss the lights or not. Just a neat experiment as well!
why would you need to simulate that problem? the answer is yes- you can miss a green light if someone accelerates too slowly.