The roadside rest area

[Robosteve]

Originally Posted by Verso

How 'bout this!



Did you know there was a 1,450-km road in Antarctica? Well, I had no idea. It isn't paved, of course, and you can't drive just by any car, but it's a road. Very nice surprise.

Interesting. I wonder if we'll ever see a motorway built in Antarctica.

[Verso]

^ Let me answer you straight away: no!

[DanielFigFoz]

Only if Antartica becomes populated (which may or may not happen in the future)

[ChrisZwolle]

Anyone ever read the book "Traffic" by Tom Vanderbilt?

After three years of research, in 2008 he released Traffic which, according to the publisher Knopf’s promotional material, had a first run printing of 150,000 copies and was a feature of Book of the Month Club. The Wall Street Journal called Traffic, “a fascinating survey of the oddities and etiquette of driving”. The Boston Globe wrote, "He found no serious general books about [driving] but did find a mountain of research. So for three years he immersed himself in the subject, traveled around the world, interviewing drivers, researchers, and traffic engineers. With almost 90 pages of footnotes, the book is a bottomless compendium of research."

I've read it. It's quite interesting, why we drive the way we drive. It does miss some statistical context here and there though, but it's a whole lot of info and stats.

[Ni3lS]

Oh lol. I said happy birthday to you on hyves Timon! Didn't forget you!

[ChrisZwolle]

How to use a taper!

[DanielFigFoz]

I do undersand because the land goes straight onto the motorway, without much time to check mirrors.
I just acidentally clicked on my PM's and I have'nt gotten a PM since september 2008

[Timon91]

The fuckers at the internet provider delayed our internet connection for another week, which means I won't have internet for another week at home. Luckily the university has a good internet connection (download up to 40 MB/s, yes Megabyte)

Originally Posted by Ni3lS

Oh lol. I said happy birthday to you on hyves Timon! Didn't forget you!

LOL thanks

[piotr71]

[QUOTE=MAG;45563757]The Polish 'ł' is rather on its own amongst slavonic langauges, ignoring colloquial usage elsewhere,[QUOTE]

If I can say? There is a small slavonic ( actually regarding themselves as 2 separate nations: low and high ) nation of Lausatia, living in Germany, nearby Polish an Czech border. They use 'ł' and call themselves Łužiscy or Łužyske depending of dialect. Their language could be simplified as a mix of Polish and Czech as well as being understandable, in its basic form, by both Poles and Czechs.

[Ni3lS]

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Names and posts in this thread. SPAMMERS! lol

[piotr71]

Ah! I reminded myself about another " nation " who uses that character. They regarding themselves as a offspring of Dutch People. In their language " Luik " would be probably called " Lłik ". If you would like to know bit more read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wymysorys.
It might be particularly, quite interested for people of Netherlands.

[Verso]

^ Dutchies using ł. OMG.

[Ni3lS]

Never heard of that lol

[ChrisZwolle]

That's funny, I can understand it quite good in the Lord's Prayer example

[Timon91]

łoł

[x-type]

Originally Posted by Timon91

łoł

[keber]

Originally Posted by ChrisZwolle

How to use a taper!

A: What's a taper?
B:Nothing special in that video, I'm doing that every day (some too cautious drivers would call me "an agressive driver"), you just need to look around a bit and keep speed.

[ChrisZwolle]

Taper:

A second lane that merges immediately as opposed to the regular merging lane of 300 meters (or even more).



Many people are scared of it, especially about the on-ramp ones. They are afraid they can't merge and get squashed between mainline and on-ramp traffic. You just need to look careful if there is on the mainline lanes, and if there isn't, go right.

Another thing that annoys me are people who accelerate to 60 - 70 km/h and then merge with traffic that's doing 120 km/h. Just put the pedal to the metal.

[keber]

Originally Posted by ChrisZwolle

Taper:

I assumed above definition, but it is nowhere to be found in dictionaries.

Another thing that annoys me are people who accelerate to 60 - 70 km/h and then merge with traffic that's doing 120 km/h. Just put the pedal to the metal.

I thought that this is only here a problem.

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by keber

I thought that this is only here a problem.

Dutch drivers are not the smartest often.

For instance, the accelerating/merging lane is usually over 300 meters long! This means you have a luxury 12 seconds to accelerate from 80 to 120 km/h. Yet everybody wants to merge within 50 m.

Really, you can merge at 120 km/h easy on nearly every on-ramp in the Netherlands. I have never seen such long acceleration ramps and merging lanes as in the Netherlands. Even trucks can merge at 90 km/h if they use the full length of the merging lane.

Example, entrance A1 Amersfoort-Noord direction Amsterdam:

650 meters to accelerate on the on-ramp. Then another 300 meters to accelerate to merge at 120 km/h. That's almost ONE kilometer to get to freeway speed...