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Mazzie Daius
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If people didn't drive like fuckwits, the problem being discussed in that paper would not exist in the first place - and given that the solutions presented therein are outside the control of the individual motorist, there is NOTHING there to indicate what driver behaviours are appropriate or effective at minimising congestion and delay.
Unless your grand plan, if stuck in traffic, is to nip out and change the speed limit signs, and/or road markings?
We agree humans are fuckwits by nature. So the problem does exist. They are outside the control of the average motorist, but, we're talking about those motorists familiar with congestion. As I've consistently noted they make the appropriate adjustment given the nature of humans.
As for fixing things, well, take control away from humans. Make them passengers. They are much more comfortable being oassengers. Note browsing habits while walking,driving, talking to the wife. You'll come away with the same conclusion.
There was a time when it was the thing for persons to be in control of machines. No more thank goodness. Human beings designed to act in short order aren't well designed to monitor and process slowly developing situations. If the ideal is to serve efficiency on the roadway remove humans as online decision makers. Replace them with appropriate automation and communication. Put them back to gossiping with others while riding as they obviously are want to do.
Its just that we have this culture thing to overcome. Until humans release control of driving to well designed systems - and they damn sure won't if it were put to a vote - and let them get on with texting and sharing photos with whomever. Its a bit like NC people thinking transgender people are all rapists out to rape their daughters. Perfectly adequate, though a bit expensive, options like lockable individual terlits are available that will eliminate that conscious perception.
So it is with humans driving.
A good engineer would have realized initial conditions include human control and she would not have gone all fluidy genning up an 'ideal' solution, wasting money and time. Rather she would have begun by taking to account human strengths and limitations as controllers of vehicles before designing solutions that won't work with humans in control. Your engineering approach missed the critical human are fuckwits factor and you will get someone to spend billions designing stuff like the bid dig that won't work.
Indeed we can work up those changing signs which will induce humans to act more rationally. We won't because we leave engineers in charge with their wrong headed physical ideals.
As for workload its relative to expectation, a human thing. Humans think they have time for this and that because there are few demands for their immediate attention. So insertion of an unexpected demand (those are anything that happens that isn't casting flowers in front of her) drives workload to very high levels as she adapts from shitting on Trump online to driving her 300 hp killing machine when some fuckwit begins to lane change.