News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tesla driver dies after his Model 3 stops on highway, gets hit by two other. Parent comment

Re:Tesla driver dies after his Model 3 stops on highway, get... by tremon on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:12AM (#30555919)
Multiple studies in The Netherlands have shown that decreasing the speed limit during rush hour increases the road throughput. So this isn't the simple equation you try to paint, there is a nonlinear interplay between the average velocity, the variance of the velocity, and the vehicle/lane density.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla driver dies after his Model 3 stops on highway, get... by lotsofpulp on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:49AM (#30556379)
That will work up to a point, but I would bet there are many situations where the amount of cars that want to be on the same piece of road at the same time overwhelms those kinds of measures. And with the same result since congestion force everyone’s speed to be lower anyway.

I can think of quite a few chokepoints in the US (Manhattan/SF-San Jose/LA/Seattle/Austin) where no matter what you do, the crush of cars will be too much for the roads that exist.

In these cases though, I think public transit is the only real solution, but that is a different topic.

[ Parent | on HN ]