getting knocked out of your limits

The result from the experiment of driving a police cruiser with lights
and sirens does not apply to lanesplitting. And your conclusion here
does not follow from the article you cite.

 

What is it with you Fair Game, anway?

You read a silly book where a Jew satirizes Christians because he just
doesn't fit into mainstream American culture, so he undermines America
by sowing seeds of
doubt, and that means more to you than the practical solutions of
Dianetics?

 

You're free to cite the CVC where it says that.

Yes, it does.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
California - slower - VC 21654(a) - "Notwithstanding the prima facie
speed limits"

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21654.htm
"Slow-Moving Vehicles
21654.  (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle
proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of
traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be driven in the
right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand
edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle
proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an
intersection or into a private road or driveway.
(b) If a vehicle is being driven at a speed less than the normal speed
of traffic moving in the same direction at such time, and is not being
driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to
the right-hand edge or curb, it shall constitute prima facie evidence
that the driver is operating the vehicle in violation of subdivision (a)
of this section.
(c) The Department of Transportation, with respect to state highways,
and local authorities, with respect to highways under their
jurisdiction, may place and maintain upon highways official signs
directing slow-moving traffic to use the right-hand traffic lane except
when overtaking and passing another vehicle or preparing for a left turn.
Amended Ch. 545, Stats. 1974. Effective January 1, 1975."

It doesn't say ""Slower Traffic Keep Right signs don't apply to Minivans
that could go faster if they wanted to but are plodding along at speeds
Jeb Bush thinks are cautious and safe." (Except in Florida)

 

Wow, I haven't heard that term in a LONG time. Been away from academia for
a long time!
Easier to grasp with a good explanation.

You don't have warp drive on your bike? ;-)

 

Nice try but you can't do that. The unit of measurement is miles per HOUR.

 

I just realized that, by extension, this also proves that overall traffic
flow is more efficient if everybody goes the same speed AND keeps a
responsible interval.
Alas, the overall through-put increases as the interval
decreases..............as long as you discount the congestion caused by
getting on and off (merging) and the "nervous Nellie" effect of being too
close together.

 

Yep and yep. But the nervousness people get about being too close
together can't be discounted: everyone has such a threshold and traffic
engineers know about it and try to deal with it in their designs.

Things could be improved if people were encouraged to cooperate in
traffic by using the acceleration lanes to accelerate, by following the
"Slower Traffic Keep Right" rule so that mergers don't have to
accelerate so much, and by allowing people to merge into traffic rather
than trying to prevent them‹or, like some assholes I've witnessed,
blasting at 70MPH into the right lane just as I'm trying to merge so
that they can then be first in line to the upcoming exit.

In short, if we drove like Germans. }: ) (But even they are having
problems: as traffic density and the mix of drivers from different
traditions increase, there will invariably be reductions in efficiency.)

 

Actually, I do: It's in the transmission. There's this shaft that warps
to take up driveline and crankshaft rotational vibrations. ;-)

 

There's that, and their tendency to roll all across Europe every so
often...

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I don't think frame of reference matters for this Newtonian calculation.
We're not going fast enough for the Lorentz transformations to make a
difference. ;-)

But, but, but! Average speed is total distance traveled divided by the
time it took.

Okay, let's calculate it out.
half a mile at 30 mph (.5 mile per minute) takes a minute
half a mile at 90 mph (1.5 mile per minute) takes 1/3 minute or 20
seconds.
So the total time of travel was 1.33 minutes.
1.0 miles in 1.33 minutes is .75 miles per minute or 45 miles an hour.

Oh, I see what you're trying to do: calculate speed only while it was
nonzero. But the problem is that speed is defined as distance over time
(distance divided by time).

Do you mean this...

for a minute the speed of travel was .5 mile per minute;
for 1/3 minute the speed of travel was 1.5 mile per minute.
What was the speed of travel for the whole time?

Well, you have to weight it for the amount of time spent at each speed:

(.5 mile per minute * 1 minute + 1.5 mile per minute * 1/3 minute ) /
(1 minute + 1/3 minute) =

wait for it ...

..75 miles per minute !

Of course, all I've done is rearrange the algebra to match the different
semantics, and then applied the same old definition of average speed. If
you can work this out in any other meaningful way, I'd love to see it.

 

Heh...trolling for catfish?

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Obviously you didn't understand the story. Jews? Christians? It was a
spoof that apparently whizzed right over your head. No surprise, since
you seem to think Dianetics has "practical solutions."

Ron is gone, but the con lives on...

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Krusty is not only a homophobe, he is also a racist bigot. That's
why he has to keep morphing his name. So many people have Krusty,
Albrecht, et al, killfiled that the poor screaming maniac would be
sure his diatribes were read only by himself if he didn't.

 

Can I hear an Amen, Brothers?? AMEN!!

And then maybe there wouldn't be as much need to lane split either! ;-)

 

The good folks at the Department of Motor Vehicles realized that
normal
people could not understand the wording of the vehicle code, so they
explained VC21654 thusly:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/pgs19thru22.htm#speedlimits

Reduced Speeds
Heavy traffic or bad weather
You must drive slower when there is heavy traffic or bad weather.
However, if you block the normal and *reasonable* movement of traffic
by driving too slowly, you may be given a ticket. If you choose to
drive slower than other traffic, do not drive in the "No. 1" (fast)
lane. (more information on lane choice ) Always move to the right when
another driver is close behind you and wishes to drive faster.

I emphasized *reasonable* for queer puppies.

It's not reasonable for you to expect everybody else to get out of
your way because you have a powerful vehicle or because you like to
drive faster than the maximum speed limit.

Of course, if you were *reasonable* we would not be having this long,
drawn out discussion.

Just think of the drivers ahead of you as other queers: they are there
to stay. Get used to it.

Does that work for you?

The DMV even went so far as to define the "No. 1" lane as the "fast"
lane.

There is actually NO fast lane on any freeway in California. All lanes
on a freeway have the same speed limit, the only exception being that
trucks must drive at a reduced speed and stay in the truck lanes
except to pass or continue on their planned route.

As I previously stated, the #1 lane is the primary lane of travel, and
it has always been expected that California drivers would get into the
#1 lane and cruise for miles and miles at the legal speed limit.

However, in *other states* or countries which have far less traffic,
the #1 lane is regarded as a "passing lane", and drivers are not
supposed to cruise in the passing lane.

So, when foreign drivers come here, they flash their lights and toot
their horns and get angry over nothing.

Just think of the drivers behind you as other queers: they are there
to stay too, get used to it.

 

On the Ultimate Riding Machine, no doubt!

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Well, that makes me glad I'm abnormal.

I think it's funny that after you so berated me for suggesting that
motorcyclists should look out for idiots, you now declare that most
people can't understand the CVC.

The handbook is not the law. When you ride your motorcycle (I mean the
real one), do you follow every suggestion in the motorcycle handbook?

And you explained that, no doubt. in order to demonstrate what an
asshole you continue to be.

Why do you persist with the delusion that 60 MPH is the speed limit in a
zone where the posted speed limit is 65 MPH?

You mean, if you thought I was reasonable. But nothing I can ever say or
do will ever prove to you that I am reasonable. You will continue to
suffer in the knowledge that there is at least one person out there who
does not hang onto your every word as Gospel, who does not pay you the
respect and attention you think you deserve.

In showing that you have some unresolved neuroses and that you keep
trying to impose your wishes on the rest of the world, yes, it works.

Which implies that someone doing only 60MPH with no one in front of him
should get out of it.

What part of

did you not understand?

Let me tell you a basic fact of mathematics.

60 < 65

People doing 60 in the #1 lane, the fast lane, are not driving the legal
speed limit.

It does you no good to lecture me about drivers form other states.

You shouldn't obsess about other people's sexuality so much. Well, you
can if you want to; just don't talk about it all the time. It annoys
people and makes them think you're a weirdo.

 

<Monty Python>
Well, I'm not sure I like the sound of these "Boncentration Bamps".
</Monty Python>
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That about sums it up.