Anyway, jokes aside, this has a lot more uses than proof we are all bad drivers. I can this being a great simple way to show queues in a factory/shop/office coffee machine . Awesome work and i wish i as 5% as good at coding to be able to do this when on holiday. On my hols i would be lucky to get past hello world. Kudos to this guy.
Show HN: A Simple Highway Simulator
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#12Those cars are using indicators, this is clearly not based in California.
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#13Set the driver reaction time to 500ms, with 90 cars launched a minute, and you'll see what my daily commute is like.
(It's a rubbish joke: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27066299)
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#15It'd be interesting to implement lane discipline and see how one bad driver effects the rest.
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#16Some 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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#17Those cars are using indicators, this is clearly not based in California.
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#18If driving causes cancer, at least the people who drive in the passing lane (the left one) deserve it.
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#19Some 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…
A basic Honda Civic will be around 9 or 10 seconds, which is roughly 10 km/h/s.
5 km/h/s would feel pretty sluggish.