Comments | flying_emu: Interesting experiment

flying_emu

Interesting experiment

Jun 08, 2006 00:22

Ok so I was driving down El Camino to Stanfurd Hospital yesterday and I noticed something interesting. Between my parents' house and Stanfurd Hospital, I spent a grand total of 8 minutes waiting at stop lights. I kid you not (I timed it with the stopwatch on my cell phone ( Read more... )

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doktor_quack June 8 2006, 08:17:24 UTC

Yes. Instead, it'll be "Years of research and millions of your dollars show that it takes less time to drive somewhere at night than it does during the day."

arnak June 9 2006, 06:19:56 UTC

They do that already; that's what those black hose things you see laid across roads sometimes are for.

flying_emu June 10 2006, 07:29:48 UTC

I thought that only measured congestion.

As in, cars per minute. I didn't know those things could measure stuff like how fast we're going at any given time or how much time we spend stopped at stop lights on average. The stoplight thing is what I think would be the most interesting anyway.

arnak June 12 2006, 05:11:20 UTC

Yes, those strips measure traffic counts, not travel time. See what happens when you let sea monkeys use the internet to try to answer such a question here: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/26101

-brian

nosymom June 11 2006, 12:16:40 UTC

Okay, you've now officially entered the "way too much time on your hands" stage of life.

anonymous June 12 2006, 05:16:34 UTC

Why are we doing this again?

-brian

flying_emu June 16 2006, 04:44:15 UTC

to waste taxpayers' money to show them something they already know: our traffic conditions suck.

Duh.

star_of_rachel June 18 2006, 08:23:43 UTC

Hi Scott!

OK, two things:

1. This plan is absolutely riduculous.
2. Thanks for sharing your MSS stories with us at the wedding party. I had never had the privelage of being surrounded by so many Haymans at once. 'Twas good fun. LJ friends? Cool.

-Rachel (Melissa's MSS friend... the one in the purple...)