OK for real though... There is a blinking text prompt cursor in random places on every webpage. Is anyone else seeing this on chrome?
Stupid Pet Peeves
- Thread starter Hartsock
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I haven't seen this.
I am sick of the newest buzz-word floating around the workplace recently: engagement. It is all about engagement. Are you engaged with your employees? I think that guy is disengaged. Time to engage with folks in the town hall meeting. I think if we just get that guy to engage. Good hell, find a thesaurus!
In heavy traffic during rush hour if you leave more than a 1/2 car space between you and the car in front of you when stopped you are an *******. This makes a very real difference, especially when multiple people do this. If you don't understand why then feel free to ask and I'll go full TL;DR on it.
CPG Grey is great with this kind of analysis. I really like that channel. I have started working on leaving a gap in traffic and I find the drive to be more smooth and less herky jerky and the times I see a lot of people doing that even on crowded cali freeways it makes a huge difference in speed and smooth flow of traffic.
A gap while moving is pretty good. A gap while at a dead standstill pushes the congestion back farther, potentially causing it to interfere with traffic going in a completely different direction. Leaving a gap while at a stop makes it less likely for others to get into the left-turn or right-turn feeder lanes. Meaning they'll still be there, possibly interfering with the trough lane as they miss the dedicated turn light and have to sit and wait and possibly back into the through lane.
On my way home yesterday I saw a person well beyond a car length in a middle lane on an off ramp that had three lanes. One lane went left, one went right and the middle one, the one they were in, split and fed both a right turn lane and left turn lane. This driver was in the higher demand left turn lane. Stuck in that lane two cars back was a person trying to utilize the left lane of the right turn feed (which is massively underutilized at this exit, yet the lane probably 80% of the people should be in since most of them are trying to get to the large shopping center that requires a left turn at a very close intersection not even a full city block after the exit). Had that one car gone nut to butt in their left turn feeder the other car would have been able to move up and actually use the left side of the right turn exit.
Final note. The guy in your first video I want to punch in the face. Zen? How is laying on the horn because someone is merging AT THE MERGE Zen? That guy is exactly who I hate. Neat that you like to create quarter-mile gaps in traffic and then get triggered and turn up the temperature on the roadway by honking for an excessive amount of time when someone moves into that gap when you don't approve.
Yeah the first guy actually cracked my up. The second guy was really the representation of the gap.
The crazy thing is that I'm a much calmer driver now and I'm still way too wound up. I've started doing daily affirmations while I drive, telling myself that it's all fine and that it isn't my problem and not something I need to worry about let alone react to.
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I have strong doubts that car AIs will ever be able to function that well. There will be too many gaps in the network, too many communication errors, too many different standards, etc.
Yeah that is why he puts it out there as a pie in the sky concept. I could see it in some specific areas, like chunks of LA where they could have transmitters all over the place. I also saw a concept somewhere that showed car to car communication being a possible way to implement something similar. But hey go back to some cowboy on the western frontier and show him a functioning cell phone and he will call it witch craft. Never know where we will be in 100 years.