Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
As Baz says driverless cars are coming, whether they're a good idea or not. It could be that they would also tend to replace trains and also, apparently, enable far more vehicles to use the motorways.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
HS2, smart motorways/no hard shoulder=total shit.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
Although they might plough on ‘jobs, infrastructure, levelling up, retraining, wibble, wibble’.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
Well, "The Envi-ro-ment" is already on the back burner judging by the amount of disposal gob rags, squirty bottles and blue roll littered across the shopping precinct.
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I don’t understand how they’re being touted as just over the horizon. Multiple manufacturers with multiple operating systems and countless variations in their software are all just going to rub along together without issue?
I just don’t see it being workable when you throw in the unpredictability of normal drivers, pedestrians, dogs, cats, kids and a hundred other scenarios that can occur on an average trip.
Perhaps if there was a standardised OS that they were all running on, our roads were viewed as some kind of virtual grid system and everyone was automated, then maybe it would be workable but I think it’s fucking crazy with so many variables out there tbh.
I always thought driver aids required you to be ready to take control at a moments notice if something went wrong, the fact that the endgame now seems to be taking the driver out of the equation altogether seems ludicrous.
We can’t even guarantee stable internet coverage throughout the country and we’re taking about letting our cars drive themselves! It would be laughable if we weren’t aware that a world of fucknuts are barrelling towards it like a Tesla driver wanking to pornhub on his commute.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
I like to think that some old bloke in a P4 Rover listening to The Archers at Keele Services knocks out 60 percent of WiFi connectivity across all six lanes of the M6 - just like that fella in Wales did fucking about with his old telly.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
mercrocker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:46 pm I like to think that some old bloke in a P4 Rover listening to The Archers at Keele Services knocks out 60 percent of WiFi connectivity across all six lanes of the M6 - just like that fella in Wales did fucking about with his old telly.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
According to the Highway Code the stopping distance at 70mph is 315 feet.
Therefore the limit should be whatever speed a driver can stop within that distance.
Therefore the limit should be whatever speed a driver can stop within that distance.
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
Useful WW2 airbourne radar though
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Re: Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit
I believe the radar fitted to the Shackeltons was a later version of the same HS2 system & that lasted till 1991 when they finally left service.
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