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Frank Krygowski
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Brent P wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>
>
>>If you want to delve deeply into the psychology and physics, we can do
>>it. But self-proclaimed "skilled drivers" are seldom as fast in
>>reaction as they pretend. Unanticipated events take quite a while to
>>process.
>
>
> If the speed kills stuff you proclaim is correct, chicago area
> expressways would be coated in blood 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
>
> The dan ryan expressway alone shows reaction times are far better than
> what you are saying.
>
> But that's neither here nor there. smoothing out the flow greatly reduces
> the number of events to react to. 85th percentile speed limits are key to
> smoothing the traffic flow.
Yet again: I don't particularly care what you do with the Dan Ryan, or
any other, expressway.
My issue is roads that get shared by pedestrians, bicyclists, farm
tractors, horse-drawn vehicles, cautious elderly drivers and the like.
Nate was bragging about doing 75+ mph on a rural two lane at night. If
you can get him to never leave the expressways, that's fine with me.
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Frank Krygowski [To reply, remove rodent and vegetable dot com.
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> In article <[email protected]>, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>
>
>>If you want to delve deeply into the psychology and physics, we can do
>>it. But self-proclaimed "skilled drivers" are seldom as fast in
>>reaction as they pretend. Unanticipated events take quite a while to
>>process.
>
>
> If the speed kills stuff you proclaim is correct, chicago area
> expressways would be coated in blood 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
>
> The dan ryan expressway alone shows reaction times are far better than
> what you are saying.
>
> But that's neither here nor there. smoothing out the flow greatly reduces
> the number of events to react to. 85th percentile speed limits are key to
> smoothing the traffic flow.
Yet again: I don't particularly care what you do with the Dan Ryan, or
any other, expressway.
My issue is roads that get shared by pedestrians, bicyclists, farm
tractors, horse-drawn vehicles, cautious elderly drivers and the like.
Nate was bragging about doing 75+ mph on a rural two lane at night. If
you can get him to never leave the expressways, that's fine with me.
--
Frank Krygowski [To reply, remove rodent and vegetable dot com.
Substitute cc dot ysu dot
edu]