A New Category of Sloth 3322

You clearly don't care one wit about the flow or anyone but yourself. It's all about you and only you making it through the green signal, the hell with anyone else. You are driving for you, not the system as a whole. Instead of making things better for everyone, you concern yourself with only making things better for you.

Your responsibility is much greater than that.

I have yet to find a condition where that makes me delay other road users in getting through an intersection.

Let me guess, you don't even start looking if it's safe until you reach the head of the queue? A typical habbit of sloth is to be totally unaware of the situation until they reach the front of the queue and then sit there, pausing, to see if it's safe to turn. This either reduces the number of vehicles that can make it through a gap in traffic or results in the gap closing without anyone getting through it.

So you shouldn't drive. Ever.

2 seconds for everyone and suddenly the throughput of the intersection is greatly reduced and soon it takes an hour to go six miles.

You don't even understand how the system works. It's not just a couple of seconds. It can be HOURS. It is a throughput issue. Once you reduce the throughput of an intersection the traffic builds up. Eventually it builds up into the previous traffic signal. This results in a crushing congestion.

Yet you have no concept of the problems that sloth causes to the system as a whole. Maybe you enjoy taking a hour to go 6 miles. I don't. Keep in mind that I just want to be able to achieve travel times that are appropiate for a BICYCLE. Remember, my vehicle of choice is a bicycle. How much of hurry do you think I'm in, if I judge it from a bicycling POV?

I drive in a manner that maximizes the effeciency and safety of the system. You drive in manner that suits you. That's the difference. To you, it's all about you. You, f*** the other guy, that's his problem. And hence the root of the problem driving in the USA. Selfish tards, wether they be slow like you or boy racers. It's all about them and everyone else can go f*** themselves.

In Germany, I found people drive much like I do. Hell, I found in WV people drive considerably better than in chicago. In WV I actually saw a woman in a minivan accelerate to get out of the way of the traffic flow to make her turn without interfering with other drivers. That's what I am talking about, driving such that one doesn't impact the system negatively. Driving such that everyone can get where they are going.

But you, you drive for YOU, the hell with everyone else, that's their problem. Your words.

You seem to think that waiting multiple cycles is fine, why don't you wait multiple cycles? Oh, that's right, it's ok for the other guy to wait multiple cycles.

It's causing crushing congestion in chicago every day.

Speed limit? Speed limit? Under those conditions the speed limit isn't even reached. And no, it's about too many people reaching the signal because of speed. There are too many people period for the throughput of the intersection. The road is filled with vehicles for MILES. Ever see lake cook road west bound in the afternoon in chicago's north suburbs? The thing is full of vehicles from I94 all the way west to IL53.

Here's where you fail, I don't see "excessive acceleration" in any proportion beyond a fraction of one percant. I'm usually the fastest off the line with a BICYCLE.

Yet, this doesn't happen to me when I am driving. When I am bicycling it does, but people are irrational when around bicyclists. With the same speed and conditions they don't even attempt it when I am driving. And on a bicycle I can just pbutt them back if I so desire.

The law not reflecting reality is a problem for many reasons. But it cannot be causing too many vehicles to reach each light per cycle when there a lights every half mile. If you had a traffic light every ten miles you might have a point. But in close urban-suburban traffic it's simply not possible because each light acts as a gate. Too many reaching one would mean too few reaching another and it would average out.

Instead what happens is the lights that are closest together first begin backing up into each other.

I pay attention. I don't dilly-dally. I get through an intersection swiftly. I don't park there like some sloth do. See, on a bicycle, getting hit by a car is really going to hurt.

Everything I have written works from the POV of a bicyclist. So you can drop your attempt to make this about speed. My top speed in traffic on flat ground on a bicycle is 35mph. The lowest arterial speed limit I encounter these days is 35mph.

So do I. Even while bicycling. Even use the obscure 'slowing' arm signal from time to time.

Obviously not.

Do you think asking the same question twice generates different answers?

So then it could be a dirt path. Why isn't it a dirt path?

How am I using force from a bicycle? Especially a light weight AL framed one.

And in the process wait 3 seconds before you move from a stop, wasting valuable intersection throughput.

BINGO. You don't drive in the conditions I am talking about.

So you f*** over other drivers and just accept it when you are f***ed over. Great, you accept the status quo, you are part of the problem.

You first, f*** everyone else.