From: Paul D. DeRocco on 23 Apr 2010 23:58 > "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <betaxxx(a)earthlink.net> wrote > > wrong - slow drivers are called law-abiding citizens and speeders are > called psychopathic murderers And you're called a damaged individual with a boring obsession and no life. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pderocco(a)ix.netcom.com
From: Elmer on 24 Apr 2010 01:58 On Apr 24, 12:34 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > However, outside of this newsgroup, these > are among the few people who are actually trying to study the Sloth > phenomenon. Are they studying that phenomenon? (slow drivers failing to keep right) From the paper, it sounds like they have yet to even discover it. Elmer
From: gpsman on 24 Apr 2010 09:57 On Apr 23, 7:57 pm, larry_scholnick <larry_scholn...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > We've all gotten used to the term "Sloth" which is used here for those > who drive slower than the flow of traffic in other than the rightmost > lane, and who accelerate at barely measurable rates. That is not the definition of "sloth". > Have you ever wondered what real traffic engineers call such drivers? There are no such motorists. > Have you ever wondered how they refer to drivers who keep up with > traffic and actually pass such slower vehicles? "Everybody"? > Sloths were referred to as SLUGS; the drivers who passed them were > referred to as Rabbits. Those are the terms of -1- engineer, for the -2- classes of motorists, operating the -1- vehicle type he managed to cram into his theory that this work attempted to validate, and failed. ----- - gpsman
From: Brent on 24 Apr 2010 11:01 On 2010-04-24, Elmer <elmercat(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The study is rather comical though, when you picture the researchers > trying to over-analyze the limited set of data generated by a few > traffic meters, coming up with fancy equations and graphs and coining > terms like reversed-lambda and inverted-V traffic flows, yet > apparently having little real-world knowledge of what it's like to > actually drive on the highway being studied. You'll see the same in other fields. Economics, climate change, etc.
From: Matthew Russotto on 24 Apr 2010 22:07
In article <f64e7b46-4bf9-4775-b167-8468f834633c(a)g23g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Elmer <elmercat(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >The study is rather comical though, when you picture the researchers >trying to over-analyze the limited set of data generated by a few >traffic meters, coming up with fancy equations and graphs and coining >terms like reversed-lambda and inverted-V traffic flows, yet >apparently having little real-world knowledge of what it's like to >actually drive on the highway being studied. Publish or perish. -- The problem with socialism is there's always someone with less ability and more need. |