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Well the math is all wrong anyway. There may very well be 36,000 cars on the road, but the driver isn't passing that many. I bet the driver only passes at most a couple hundred. The traffic flows together, roughly. You've all been sitting in traffic and seen a car in another lane pass you only to have you pass them 30 seconds later once your lane starts to move. You play tag that way for most of the traffic jam, which means you have been averaging the same speed all along.

True, if the traffic is jammed up and inching along, but if the traffic is heavy but flowing, with the lanes at different speeds, in 96 miles he could be passing that many cars.

Pie	01-09-2009 11:37 AM

...but will it take off if it's on a treadmill?

glatt

01-09-2009 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 520488)

True, if the traffic is jammed up and inching along, but if the traffic is heavy but flowing, with the lanes at different speeds, in 96 miles he could be passing that many cars.

Only if his lane is free flowing and the other lane is filled bumper to bumper with stopped cars. For 96 miles.

36,000 cars times 14 feet for the average car length is 504,000 feet or 95.45 miles.

I've never seen driving conditions like that.

HungLikeJesus

01-09-2009 12:13 PM

On a somewhat related note, if everyone maintains a following distance of 2 seconds (and we'll assume that's from the front of one vehicle to the front of the next to eliminate variances in vehicle length), then 30 vehicles per minute per lane will pass a given point, regardless of vehicle speed.

Isn't that interesting?

Pie	01-09-2009 12:29 PM

Why you gotta go break out the math on us, hlj? I was having such a good unproductive Friday, then you had to make me do math. :p

HungLikeJesus

01-09-2009 12:48 PM

glatt started it.

glatt

01-09-2009 12:57 PM

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and if glatt jumped off the Empire State Building, would you too?

Radar

01-09-2009 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 520463)

If someone reaches over to touch the steering wheel when I'm driving, there damn well better have been an imminent collision avoided. Or they'll be missing a hand.

:headshake You displayed considerable poise, F3.

I have to remind my wife that my car has only 1 steering wheel quite often.

dar512

01-09-2009 01:30 PM

It's a sure indicator that you are a geek when you start doing math on the numbers in a joke.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

HungLikeJesus

01-09-2009 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 520521)

and if glatt jumped off the Empire State Building, would you too?

Have you seen this?

Flint

01-09-2009 03:29 PM