the Dutch train system is so incredibly cool, you can get from one end to another end of the ‘main’ part of the Netherlands in an hour and its so easy to just get to any station anywhere and then you can just go everywhere for so incredibly cheap. Literally the only thing you need to get anywhere in the Netherlands is a bike and something to buy train tickets with. You dont even need to buy tickets, you can just tap your debit card on the gates in the entrance station and then tap it when you exit and it just handles everything for you
you can even tap on sone bikes to rent them. everyone saying owning a car makes you free can suck it
I know it’s a shitpost, but i hate that people interpret carcinisation as a crab being the ultimate piece of evolution.
When learning evolution like algorithms in computer science, one of the first things you learn is strategies to not get stuck in locally optimal solutions (solutions that seem the best when you look at other nearby solutions, but are worse than other solutions if you allow your algorithm to look further away).
Crabs seem like that, it’s just an easy defensive evolution that then stagnates in a form that kind of works. Seeing how many crabs we eat, and how few crabs eat us, it’s obvious that crabs aren’t the actual pinnacle of evolution, just some locally optimal solution that evolution tends to get stuck in :p.
I understand your point but some of history’s most publicized and powerful figures have been consumed by crabs. Amelia Earhart and countless other well known examples through history show the crab threat is much more present and real than you imply.
This is why I stopped shitposting, too many sweats
We will see (or not) who has the last laugh, crabs or homo sapiens sapiens?
It’s gonna be homo sapiens unless crabs evolve laughter.
Like came back in a million years. Bet crabs are going to be still around while we’ll already extinct.
Exactly. It’s a local minimum/maximum optimization problem as applied to genetics and evolution.
After several days of what I can only describe as ill-informed pro crab propaganda posts all over lemmy I realy needed this. Thank you.
the perfect transportation does not e-
Okay I laughed while my exoskeleton genes got activated.
The children inside make it scary
I know, right? Are they passengers, or are they stomach contents. And is there a meaningful difference between the two
They make everything scary.
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And on the first day multivac said LET THERE BE TRAINS
I also really like that every time I see some dumb idea to “improve vehicles” there a long comment chain improving it even further into a train.
We are the simulation and everywhere we’ve evolved to using trains of some form, with a few very notable exceptions
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Why does Lemmy and reddit love trains so much? They could solve some travel problems in some but are we expecting tracks to run literally everywhere and into every suburb? What about rural places?
Yes. Theyre called trams, or trollies.
Yes, please put tracks everywhere.
I mean, as someone who didn’t grow up around trains, but moved to a place with trains in the suburb when I was 18… Yes.
It’s a matter of perspective. If someone’s from the USA, they have no idea whatsoever that trains could be anything good at all because that’s the opposite of what trains are like in their experience, but if they’re from the Netherlands then they know that trains can be simple and great.
Autism
Well, the automotive industry has been working on making self driving a thing, and I recall when they first tried to tackle the problem of lane keeping.
The first proposal was to embed magnets or similar into the road surface that the car could have a set of sensors for to determine if it was drifting left or right in its lane.
Motherfucker, that’s just a virtual track for your dumb four-wheeled mini-train.
It didn’t catch on, but AFAIK it was implemented in small areas as a trial and it performed adequately given the technology of the time.
So I’m out here going, why the fuck are we pretending that vehicles are not just rail-free personal trains?
Self driving taxis aren’t an awful solution for last-mile transport. Trains can’t take you door to door, and walking isn’t always a good option (people with mobility issues, inclement weather, etc).
Key word being “taxis”. They don’t need to be in every individual’s garage.
That’s the end game for self-driving cars. They can drive close enough together to draft, efficiency goes way up. If a problem happens ahead, they communicate back so that pileups don’t happen.
I am looking for intersections with two catepillars of drafting vehicles that slightly intersperse to cross each other at right angles by microtiming the gaps to avoid collisions by microseconds.
IMO, the big strength with self driving cars, if we ever get there is that level of car to car communication. The vehicle will be able to communicate ahead and see the best possible route, and where there’s congestion etc, then optimize the drive to avoid unnecessary delays.
A big problem with human drivers is the tenancy for ghost traffic jams to occur. There was a test they did with about 10-20 drivers of all varieties put into cars and told to drive a circle track, following eachother. No other instructions were given. All they need to do was keep distance in front of them and everything would be fine, what was observed was that some drivers went more quickly than others, and would brake to a near stop when they came close to the person in front. In doing so, everyone ended up basically in stop and go conditions.
IMO, that test exemplifies the problem with human drivers. Put enough of them on the same road and given enough drivers and enough time, traffic/congestion will create slowdowns that otherwise shouldn’t exist.
Taking people out of the equation means that all of the cars can accelerate at the same time and travel in tight packs, so merges are effortless because the entire system is working together to ensure that merging vehicles are able to merge (allowing sufficient space for them to merge), and perhaps more importantly, the merging cars will match pace with the flows of traffic already traveling on the road. Those are the two main tenants of a zipper merge. Find space to merge into, and match pace with the vehicles in the lane you are merging into. Seems that a lot of people forget that last bit.
So rush hour nonsense will at least be reduced.
I read a study once that covered the stop and go traffic wave effect. Apparently all you have to do to stop the wave propagation as have a couple of drivers with a two - three car buffer. The first person to not have to come to a stop in the wave has the power to more or less reset and stop the wave.
How do you prevent people from squeezing into your buffer?
You don’t, some will get ahead of you but not everybody does that, and the same assholes that are swerving to get ahead of you are the ones that cause the propagation of the wave. You’re slowing down a little bit and accepting some leakage makes it that much better for the whole crowd
Yep. I do this all the time on highways. I’ve seen dark red traffic lines on Google Maps as I’ve driven over them turn green.
Patience and the efforts of a single person in a wavefront can make an enormous difference, like a rock sticking up from a pond.
video of a ghost traffic jam test: https://youtu.be/Suugn-p5C1M
The first proposal was to embed magnets or similar into the road surface that the car could have a set of sensors for to determine if it was drifting left or right in its lane.
That’s a thing for forklifts since what, a century? Even better, they use a wire with a set frequency instead of magnets, it’s called wire guidance system.
TIL. Thanks for that. I wonder what frequency they use…
5g from the covid vaccines of course!
ELEVATED RAILS my BELOVED ❤️
the last time I gave factorio a serious run was waaaay back in its beta, before it was even finished and had an end game.
its just gotten so complicated since then that I get overwhelmed, especially when you start to scale up and realize you fucked something up and have to undo an entire day of shit to move something 2 tiles or something.
embrace the spaghetti 🍝
Bots can do that shit. Ctrl+X, select, move the two tiles, place. Realize that’s still a tile off on the Y axis, and repeat. The bots don’t complain.
I will hand make the hundred or so blue science I need to make construction bots if I have to.
Yes… if you are far enough in the game for them, perhaps.
Which I wasnt.
Since space age came out, it’s way easier to rush bots and rockets. Just red green and blue science.
This was me but I tried it a year ago 😂
I tried about 6 months ago after falling deep into DoshDoshington’s various Factorio Mod and Challenge series.
I got about 15 hours in before I was just overwhelmed with what I was doing. I miss being young and eager.
One could almost say that Trains are good.
There’s two kinds of ground transportation: off-roading, and should be a train.
“we heavily biased the network against trains and now it’s just saying the optimal car consists of several metal struts connecting just two thinned out wheels that the driver sits on top of and propels themselves using pedals. It was busy redesigning intersections to have clear safe lanes for these bi-cycle ‘cars’ with plenty of trees / room for pedestrians when we pulled the plug…”
Even in bike racing the optimal form ends being to become a train. A peloton is just a train made up of bikes.
And then imagine if instead of wheels a bicycle was on a track with even greater reduced rolling resistance than skinny overinflated tires and didn’t require lumbar strength for balance.
Damn now I want pedal powered train
This is just the AI bias showing through: It’s all that training.
Nice pun, I think you railed it
They were certainly on the right track
People who are biased against trains have a real loco motive.
They’re all intent on just derailing the conversation!
So what you’re saying is the optimal form is some kind of crab train?
Trains only move forward and back. Crabs only move side to side. It only makes sense.
Hey there 👋, I know you mean well by that comment, like I get it, I do. ☺️ But I just wanted to let you know:
THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO STUDIES DONE ON THE SAFETY OF CRAB TRAINS.
ZERO.
But despite that, they are gaining widespread support, and now even people like yourself are calling them “optimal.”
Listen: Someone I know lost an arm in the pincer mechanism of one of these trains. More work needs to be done before we can consider them safe, nevermind “optimal”. Don’t buy into the techbro BS.
Friends don’t let friends crab train.
Hey, when the train needs blood the train gets blood
As a tf2 player. A crab train is majestic.
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