David HoBehold my favorite #traffic calming device.
cleatsandcode
Steve Bannister@cleatsandcode @davidho the space is so narrow any cars have to drive slowly through the bollards or risk damage to their shiny automobile. Particularly fun in my opinion is that larger cars have to be even more careful
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@milgrim @cleatsandcode @davidho But drivers know that the bollards must be wide enough for normal cars, so all they have to do is miss the driver's side bollard with the driver's side wing mirror by a couple of cm, and be driving straight, and they haven't got a problem. There's no need to worry about the other side of the car.
@TimWardCam all true, but there’s direct video evidence of drivers slowing down. Crazy huh
Beko Pharm (deprecated)@milgrim @TimWardCam every left lane on the autobahn in Germany when there is a construction site going. We're really used to this and even overspeed all the time. We as in my fellow Germans.
Nobody here would bat an eye on that 😅 No I'm not proud on that. Our car density is simply insane.
@bekopharm @milgrim Only a very basic understanding of fluid mechanics is needed to realise that if the number of lanes on the road drops from two to one due to roadworks/construction what's needed is for everyone to drive TWICE AS FAST through the narrow bit, that way there's no queuing.
halcy 
@TimWardCam @bekopharm @milgrim wait. Does this mean that what we need to solve traffic wasn’t one more lane, but simply for everyone to go 800km/h all the time?
James Endicott@halcy @TimWardCam @bekopharm @milgrim
If no one was allowed to turn and all merging, splitting, and exiting was perfectly efficient then yes. Turning on noclip could also work.
If no one was allowed to turn and all merging, splitting, and exiting was perfectly efficient then yes. Turning on noclip could also work.
Mark 
@o76923 @halcy @bekopharm @TimWardCam @milgrim
> if no one was allowed to turn and all merging, splitting, and exiting was perfectly efficient then yes
There's a word for that in English; I believe it's "train"
@o76923 @halcy @bekopharm @milgrim @notNapoleon I used to like trains, but sadly they're not usable at the moment because no operator chooses to offer a guaranteed zero covid journey.
@TimWardCam @milgrim dunno, our autobahn has usually 3 lanes and a construction site may reduce that to two.
The left one is the one which is usually _way smaller_ in that case.
Don't think the concept of a single lane is known here.
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Rhodie114@TimWardCam @bekopharm @milgrim exactly. This is also why adding more lanes makes traffic move slower
Norbi📷🚴♀️💻@Rhodie114 @TimWardCam @bekopharm @milgrim That's because new lanes are added to the right and not to the left of the old lanes, i. e. the right one is almost empty😉
@grauzone @Rhodie114 @bekopharm @milgrim In the UK there's a rule that you're allowed to overtake on the wrong side if you are moving in heavy traffic and your lane happens to be moving faster than the others. I interpret a completely empty left hand (in the UK) lane to be moving as fast as I like when the others are congested.
@TimWardCam that's only up to 60 km/h max. Tho I'm not sure if you brexited that away already 🙃
@bekopharm The UK version of that rule would never have been expressed in km/h.
@TimWardCam no idea what that is in freedom units. Heck you're even driving on the wrong side 😜
@bekopharm But we are not, as many seem to believe, the only country in the world that drives on the "wrong" side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
@TimWardCam that I know 🤓
Seb@TimWardCam @bekopharm I like ‘freedom units’
@TimWardCam @grauzone @Rhodie114 @bekopharm @milgrim Similar rule in Germany: You can pass on the right if traffic is dense, vmax is 80km/h and vmax_delta is 20km/h.
Still §1 applies - and I really like that part of our road traffic regulations, though it needs to be enforced better:
https://www-gesetze--im--internet-de.translate.goog/stvo_2013/__1.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Still §1 applies - and I really like that part of our road traffic regulations, though it needs to be enforced better:
https://www-gesetze--im--internet-de.translate.goog/stvo_2013/__1.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Christoph Hottenroth@TimWardCam @bekopharm @milgrim Only a basic understanding of fluid mechanics is needed to realize that a bunch of moving cars don't behave like fluid. Cars (and also mainly the space between them) are compressible, so you have to apply particle dynamics here, which is a whole different story.
Ben Aveling@bekopharm @chotten @TimWardCam @milgrim the space between cars is called headway and is measured in seconds.
Tom Lips@bekopharm @milgrim @TimWardCam this is Johan Cruyff logic. His solution to traffic congestion was to abandon all speed limits on the motorways.
@Tomasso yeah.. and mandatory spikes on the dashboard would probably help too.