Lots of interesting stuff baked into this one. Personally I really enjoy the bitching about the cashier who weighs the vegetables as if slow checkout lines don't exist in the west
Lots of interesting stuff baked into this one. Personally I really enjoy the bitching about the cashier who weighs the vegetables as if slow checkout lines don't exist in the west
I feel like most intersections in the US are on timers too, and where there are sensors aren't they some electromagnetic thing to detect a giant piece of metal over them, not any sort of scale since scales have moving parts that would wear and break in short order?
Or do they mean the timers are weighted to favor the busier road?
Just toss it all out and go with a fucking roundabout instead.
I realize this isn't universally applicable, but holy shit, everywhere in my area where they recently replaced big intersections with roundabouts has been a clear and significant improvement.
I thought roundabouts were supposed to be significantly less safe
Everything I've ever seen, including stats I trust, says the exact opposite, that roundabouts are significantly safer both in terms of number of accidents and the severity of the ones that do occur. A quick search seems to confirm this.
Roundabouts are good because they force people to slow down and pay attention
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Roundabouts are safer because they reduce speed. They also have higher capacity than intersections.
Car-brained people tend to dislike them though. They don't like the idea of having to slow down or something.
What. You actually go faster through them because you don't have to stop.
What I've seen is that the severity goes way down, but the number goes up (which may be limited to places like North America where they aren't as common) which would be fine anyway.
That’s right. Induction sensors, not weight. It’s just a big coil of wire set into the asphalt.
Not sure what the plan is in Chinese cities (I could probably guess), but even in the U.S., computer vision is being tested to make this even more accurate than the coils, and you don't even need to dig up the road.
The weighted thing is true, but it's kinda useless if you're on a motorbike. (I think it's kinda like one of those things at the gas station that ring the bell rather than a real scale). Regardless you only really need those on rural roads where there's no real traffic anyways.
They are induction sensors. Just a big coil of wire set into the asphalt. The reason why motorcycles often don’t trip them is a combination of the use of non-ferrous materials to save weight (aluminum doesn’t induce electromagnetism as well as steel) and the significantly smaller amount of ferrous material on the vehicle (smaller engines, frames, etc).
Ohh cool! I didn't know that's how they did it.
you can get magnets that you stick on the bottom of your bike to trigger the sensors just like a car