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Needs an American mode where people don’t know they should stick to the right-most lane, unless passing.
Other uniquely American things: - Passing on the right - Taking an exit from the passing lane (cutting everyone off) - Couch in the middle of the highway
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In this instance, upping the politeness bar seems to reduce traffic ...
Adjusting it in either direction seems detrimental.
I love these little simulators because while they purport to show that slower more polite driving is more efficient, more often than not they show the exact opposite. Want to shove the most cars through per hour? Remove the speed limit. Accelerate and brake like every intersection is a drag race. Leave absolutely no distance between cars. And dump any notion of polite lane changes. NASCAR was right: Minimize unused p…
A pet peeve of mine when I still drove was when drivers would leave 1-3 car length's in front of their car when stopped at a stoplight. And then after the car in front starts moving, it'd take them a solid second to start inching forward also. The bigger problem was that this type of behavior was the norm to the point where at slow speed intersections with stoplights (e.g. city streets around college campuses), only…
Indeed, the most influential slider in the simulation seems to be the “max acceleration” one... if people accelerate quickly up to their max speed it seems to prevent traffic waves from propagating backwards. It meshes well with my observations 213929387 years ago when I used to drive in traffic.
I would like to use a driving simulator to learn how to drive on the left side. Is there something like that? Good if I would rent a car on Ireland.
ETS2 only comes with trucks as driveable vehicles. A lot of the skills are the same as driving normal cars, but trucks have more gears, are larger, and accelerate more slowly. Truck cabs also don't have rear-view mirrors; to look backward you have to either use side mirrors or stick your head out the window.
I have seen mods that add normal cars to drive. I downloaded one of those mods but haven't tried installing it. I'm not sure if those mods unlock the cars from the start or if you have to first save up for and buy five trucks to unlock the in-game online vehicle ordering catalog (which takes many hours of gameplay).
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More frequent service on the subway doesn't require vast amounts of land to be removed from productive activity. At most it might require a small expansion of stabling facilities for extra carriages and engines. Induced demand means that when you make the drain pipe bigger, the bucket gets bigger as well, so the sink gets even more full. This is not sustainable.
Why is more utilization a problem? It means more people are being served by infrastructure. Imagine complaining that more people are going to parks because the city turned a bunch of vacant lots into parks. In the case of things like roads, rails and bus stops more utilization means more economic activity which is a good thing.
Also, land used for roads cannot be used for other economic activities.
Needs an American mode where people don’t know they should stick to the right-most lane, unless passing.
Other uniquely American things: - Passing on the right - Taking an exit from the passing lane (cutting everyone off) - Couch in the middle of the highway
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this has always bothered me. if you have the right of way, and you do not take the right of way, in most cases you are effectively disobeying traffic rules and disrupting the flow of traffic.
In rural areas where this is common there isn't traffic. Thus the politeness doesn't cost you anything. Also in those rural areas it is somewhat common for someone with the right away to have a reason to drive much slower than the speed limit and so giving up your right away makes things better for everyone - the other person doesn't have to try to pass you latter. When there is traffic you giving up the right away i…
Why does living in a rural area make someone more likely to have a reason to drive below the speed limit?