The Big 'Let's sell our cars and take buses/ebikes instead' thread (warning: probably very dull)
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Yet you're still typing away on the internet relying on it's monumental evolution. RJS, you will be superceded by AI/intelligent matter.
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Sure, but the braking distance is related to mass and speed, only the thinking distance is affected by switching from a human brain to a microprocessor. Radio communication between vehicles is great until it is interrupted.
Anyway, seeing as this is the public transport thread, it's worth noting that trains have been running driverless for years
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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You aren't getting it. If you have a train of cars driven by people, the reaction times add up. If they are autonomous and communicate, all cars I. A train can brake at the same time. Like the brakes on a...erm.... train.
I seem to remember an early experiment of this nature on the Tomorrows World intro. Several dark red Rovers in a line.
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I do understand that. And possibly for motorway driving, preventing the wave of brake lights would be beneficial, but that's got nothing to do with road safety and speed limits on urban/suburban roads where that phenomenon doesn't occur.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not to the same extent, and I don't see how we get from now to the panacea of self driving cars around cities either. Fundamentally, it's not the right mode of transport, it's just popular because it is a private space.
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It's happening, but I agree, it's just more traffic. No benefit at all.
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AI will scrape the data of each driver's soshul medjah etc posts, calibrate the type of individual depending on the level of vroom vroom look at me type stuff and automatically adjust the behaviour of the vehicle being driven by said individual.
Not possible? Individually targeted advertising was not a thing several decades back.
Stevo, you'd better start deleting your posts. And the archived versions well.
Anyway, happily reduced the speed of a following me Range Rover in town today... Tough tit fella, if you'd been obeying the 30mph limit you would not have caught me up, and then get blocked by me reducing to 22-23... 🤓 Every little helps.
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One day you'll get rear ended for self righteous behaviour like that. That's if you haven't been already 😊
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Anyway. Dashcam. Whiplash. He hit me, he hit me. Com-pen-say-shun. Fit's nae t'like?
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I suppose 'crash for cash' helps the finances now that you're retired 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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An awful lot of time and money has already been spend preparing the route, and undoing it is going to cost anyway, it seems to make sense to make the best of it, it will be twice as hard to resurrect it if it is abandoned now.
My main issue with it is the amount of damage the construction work is doing to the environment. I live close to it and it seems that the area that is being cleared of trees and substantial vegetation is way in excess of what is needed. Of course they are replanting, but it will be decades before the trees have grown enough to provide the habitats that they used to.
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Got 4 return train tickets from St Erth to St Ives for £10.50 today. Would have been £16 but got an automatic group discount
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This is an interesting article on the perils of heavier and heavier cars. Interestingly, it becomes a bit of a prisoner's dilemma.
A heavier car marginally improves the safety of the occupants, but at the expense of being significantly more dangerous to all other road users.
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People get paid more in and around London. You can't argue with regional inflation, it seems quite fair.
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With the evolution of automous cars that charts trend will be towards zero.
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If I am reading that, your train fares are towards the lowest per mile.
Perhaps you you stop whinging so much.
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Pipe down country boy and go addle your brain with some scrumpy or whatever nastiness you drink over there.
Some of us are trying to earn the big bucks - which is a good job because someone needs to pay for all the oldies as they become increasingly decrepit.
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Best get back to work then!
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Clearly I've touched a nerve Mr Angry.
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Imagine the whinging we'd endure if you were on one of the more expensive lines.
I think you need considerably more sleep, you might be less of a grump as a result.
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The problem in the US is as much about the nature of driving as the vehicles. It is made too easy on the whole.
Driver training is also rediculously superficial and the road signs are useless. Means there's a lot more of a free for all across rather large wide paved areas with few obstacles. Until something unusual happens, whereupon people don't notice or don't know what to do.
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How long before you can get a senior railcard. That will help you save a few quid.
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That’s actually a lot cheaper than I would have thought although I always think of the distance from Cambridge to London being more than it is. A similar journey for me by distance might be to Didcot which is showing as £200 for an any time journey tomorrow (oddly the journey to Swindon at the same time is showing as £10 each way which shows up the ridiculous vagaries of the British railway pricing system).
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£46 a day is not too bad given how far you're coming from. Although that may increase once they factor in the train drivers' pay deal.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Carnet tickets are ok, especially when a family means there’s often a day in a week where you can’t come into the office.
Saves me about a grand a year.
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