From: Paul D. DeRocco on
> "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.

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From: Elmer on
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
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.
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- gpsman
From: Brent on
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
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.


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