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A 120mph minimum in rural areas is probably a way to get more people into rural hospitals in those areas...

by joshgel 7y ago

dlp211 7y ago
More like graveyards. There is a reason that most crash tests don't exceed 40 MPH.
- DenisM 7y ago
  The two of you have missed the part of my post about "modernized car requirement" (that would be something like autopilot), and "dedicated lane" that prevents other cars from getting in. I'm pretty sure this road, if built, will have fewer deaths on it than a regular highway.
  - eropple 7y ago
    So a thing that doesn't exist should be anticipated by cash-strapped governing bodies and should have massive capital expenditures poured into it, to solve a problem that does exist in the here-and-now. Or not.
    - DenisM 7y ago
      Yes? That's pretty much the story of every single capital-intensive project in history: first there is a present need, then goes the massive expenditure, then comes the completed project, then appear various positive and negative unintended consequences. Some things can be boot-strapped, others cannot.
      - eropple 7y ago
        Let me be more specific. You are saying that they government should anticipate a thing that doesn't work and has no realistic timetable to be adopted at any scale. Further, you don't take into account such little things as car tires rapidly deteriorating at your proposed speed (and for just that one little thing you must ignore that that any changes to composition just for your wonder-roads will increase cost and decrease other valuable aspects of tires, like road grip, which matter more in inclement weather in more rural areas). And it should just...happen, because you said so. A sibling commenter had it: you're badly reinventing trains. What is with the obsession amongst the tech set to reinvent mass transit poorly? (See also "Loop," by one Musk, Elon.)
        DenisM 7y ago
        High-speed roads are the most proven thing in the history of proven things - if you make them people drive on them with high speeds. For example, Germany is doing just fine with high speed roads [1]. In particular the car tires are not coming apart at all, nor does any other part of the car. Hardly a re-invention. [1] The lowest speed I observed was 100mph, and that was me in a clunky economy Opel wagon. Everyone else was going 120mph+, and a few cars flew by me faster than I could see them, I think at least 160mph.

A 120mph minimum in rural areas is probably a way to get more people into rural hospitals in those areas...

dlp211 7y ago

More like graveyards. There is a reason that most crash tests don't exceed 40 MPH.

DenisM 7y ago
The two of you have missed the part of my post about "modernized car requirement" (that would be something like autopilot), and "dedicated lane" that prevents other cars from getting in. I'm pretty sure this road, if built, will have fewer deaths on it than a regular highway.
- eropple 7y ago
  So a thing that doesn't exist should be anticipated by cash-strapped governing bodies and should have massive capital expenditures poured into it, to solve a problem that does exist in the here-and-now. Or not.
  - DenisM 7y ago
    Yes? That's pretty much the story of every single capital-intensive project in history: first there is a present need, then goes the massive expenditure, then comes the completed project, then appear various positive and negative unintended consequences. Some things can be boot-strapped, others cannot.
    - eropple 7y ago
      Let me be more specific. You are saying that they government should anticipate a thing that doesn't work and has no realistic timetable to be adopted at any scale. Further, you don't take into account such little things as car tires rapidly deteriorating at your proposed speed (and for just that one little thing you must ignore that that any changes to composition just for your wonder-roads will increase cost and decrease other valuable aspects of tires, like road grip, which matter more in inclement weather in more rural areas). And it should just...happen, because you said so. A sibling commenter had it: you're badly reinventing trains. What is with the obsession amongst the tech set to reinvent mass transit poorly? (See also "Loop," by one Musk, Elon.)
      - DenisM 7y ago
        High-speed roads are the most proven thing in the history of proven things - if you make them people drive on them with high speeds. For example, Germany is doing just fine with high speed roads [1]. In particular the car tires are not coming apart at all, nor does any other part of the car. Hardly a re-invention. [1] The lowest speed I observed was 100mph, and that was me in a clunky economy Opel wagon. Everyone else was going 120mph+, and a few cars flew by me faster than I could see them, I think at least 160mph.