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and are available for an experiment sometime at the begning of May next year?
The reason im asking, is because I have a plan. A plan to screw over Britain's roads (Mainly England) and i need to form an army of cars to do so.
The thing im basing this theory on is something i like to call a "phantom traffic jam." A phantom traffic jam can quickly and easily be created by having a line of cars (one in each lane of a motorway) breaking fairly quickly simultaneously, and thus causing other cars behind to do the same. What actually happens is a bit like a Mexican wave effect, but imagine instead of people standing up, cars are stopping. As long as cars are being forced to slow down the effect can continue for ages, and in places with heavy traffic the effect can bring a single area of road to a standstill, as long as cars join the back of the "queue" faster or at an equal rate to the ones infront leaving.
What i would like to do, is use this tecnique to cripple the main junctions of major carriageways, and motorways, and see just how much of Britains infrastructure can be taken out by a handfull of cars. By handfull I obviously mean a lot, and I doubt this could ever go ahead, and even if it could, i doubt the legality of the actual thing anyway.
But it would be awesome if you could use 60 odd cars, and bring a portion of the country to an entire standstill for no reason.
The reason im asking, is because I have a plan. A plan to screw over Britain's roads (Mainly England) and i need to form an army of cars to do so.
The thing im basing this theory on is something i like to call a "phantom traffic jam." A phantom traffic jam can quickly and easily be created by having a line of cars (one in each lane of a motorway) breaking fairly quickly simultaneously, and thus causing other cars behind to do the same. What actually happens is a bit like a Mexican wave effect, but imagine instead of people standing up, cars are stopping. As long as cars are being forced to slow down the effect can continue for ages, and in places with heavy traffic the effect can bring a single area of road to a standstill, as long as cars join the back of the "queue" faster or at an equal rate to the ones infront leaving.
What i would like to do, is use this tecnique to cripple the main junctions of major carriageways, and motorways, and see just how much of Britains infrastructure can be taken out by a handfull of cars. By handfull I obviously mean a lot, and I doubt this could ever go ahead, and even if it could, i doubt the legality of the actual thing anyway.
But it would be awesome if you could use 60 odd cars, and bring a portion of the country to an entire standstill for no reason.
