The trouble is, it isn’t symmetric that way. MAGA hypocrites would simply gleefully shout it from the rooftops as fact and it would end up being a propaganda coup in their favor, satire be damned.
See also: the bullshit asymmetry principle, The Card Says “Moops”, that quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc.
MAGAs want her to peg them.
You’re right: when traffic is at its critical density, that’s often what triggers the shift from the free-flow regime to the congested regime. But just because you make computers drive the cars – even assuming they did it perfectly without randomly braking, which they don’t – that doesn’t mean it eliminates that flipping between regimes. At best, it might get you a little bit more capacity before hitting that critical threshold, but eventually it’s still going to, and then something – a squirrel darting into the road, a sunbeam glinting off something the wrong way and momentarily confusing the AI, a bump that disturbs the car just enough to make it slow down a fraction of a MPH, etc. – is going to trigger that shift to the congested regime anyway.
No, that’s not how traffic works. That’s like saying a pipe can flow an infinite amount of fluid when you used a liquid instead of a gas because you got rid of the empty space between particles.
Even with theoretically-perfect timing and control, the road still has a finite capacity because cars take up a certain amount of space, both stationary and moving (following distance is still a thing even with computer control because of the mechanical limitations of brake performance). Moreover, it isn’t that much higher than we can manage with humans driving the vehicles already.
The only ways to exceed that limit are to make the vehicles smaller (e.g. bikes) or pack more people into them (e.g. buses or trains).
Hi, traffic engineer here.
That’s never going to happen. It’s nothing but a tech-bro bullshit fantasy.
Why? Because cyclists and pedestrians exist. In order to make it possible for the kinds of gains you’re talking about to happen, every road user has to be an autonomous vehicle, but (aside from freeways) streets simply do not work that way and never will.
(Oh, and also: even at the limit, the best it can ever accomplish is to be an inferior approximation of a train.)
That’s great and all, but I’m still waiting for it to be affordable to install my own so that it can also be a whole-house uninterruptible power supply.
Then why were you even asking when you already knew?
Your bitching was like complaining about a footnote citation because they didn’t copy and paste the entire referenced work into the middle of the article for you.
RTFB[ible]. It says which passages were quoted; look them up yourself if you’re that fucking worried about it!
At least, that’s what you would do if you were actually “curious” and not concern trolling.
That “average price” includes cards with factory overclocks and other enhanced gimmicks to jack up the MSRP above what the base 9070XT is supposed to be. What does it look like for the specific models of cards that were actually intended to hit the $599 price point?
I did literally that.
The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.
You say that as if saving $10 on a bulb once every few years is worth the risk of spending $100s or apparently even $1000s if they get damaged.
There are reasons cars have been getting ever more unaffordable (above and beyond inflation), and stuff like bespoke model-specific headlights requiring complicated tooling to manufacture is one of them.
My Miata with pop-up sealed beams gets ~30 MPG. Any aerodynamic problems it has are due to being a convertible, not the headlights.
Meanwhile, only 30 years ago when we had sealed-beams in standardized shapes, you could replace a headlight for like $10. And the lens was actually glass instead of plastic prone to yellowing and abrasion.
Between coal and kleptocrats, only one of those things is actually possible.
Only probably a decade or so later than it would’ve happened if Jimmy Carter’s panels hadn’t been removed from the White House.
On one hand, the jack looks too far outboard for that, but on the other hand we don’t see the top of it so it could plausibly be behind the tire.
I think it’s just not drawn all that well.
If you’re gonna say that, you might as well just count the entirety of Interstella 5555.
Anyway, along similar themes:
We already have those big specialized highways; that’s what freeways are. The trouble is, even if autonomous driving were capable of doubling the lane capacity (and IIRC the theoretical best case is actually less than that, closer to a 50% improvement), induced demand is still a thing. It maybe buys you a reprieve for a decade or so, but after that you’re right back to “just one more lane, bro!”