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Traffic jams that occur for no reason have been replicated on the test-track
Footage courtesy of Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow, Japan
Channel: Autos & Vehicles Uploaded: March 3, 2008 at 9:42 am Author:newscientistvideo
Cactilio86(Wednesday 7th of January 2009 10:09:24 AM)
The situation would be exactly the same. Traffic jams are usually modelled with gas flow (there it lies the reason to call it shockwave), and the nature of the perturbation here is that not everyone reacts equally fast to the starting signal or they are not able to keep EXACTLY the same velocity and the same trajectory.
retrojaxed2(Tuesday 6th of January 2009 03:06:38 PM)
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DanDFriend(Friday 2nd of January 2009 05:25:27 PM)
cool.
Jokenintendo(Saturday 27th of December 2008 12:48:38 PM)
It would be a little unrealistic,but what would happen if they were all the EXACT same car?
Jokenintendo(Friday 2nd of January 2009 07:06:34 PM)
Well i kinda figured if they had the same speed and parts that make it go the exact same speed as the others(Basically the same car...)it wouldn't do the shockwave thing?
Then again,i bet I'm waaaaaay off course on this theory.
WhyOweYou2b(Friday 26th of December 2008 02:11:03 PM)
it's not a matter of the speed they're all made to drive at, it's a matter of speed decreasing or building because they're not all traveling on one track. alterations in the turning of the wheels from left to right varies the speed incrementally
platozzz(Friday 26th of December 2008 04:20:48 AM)
duh?
I could have told you this without the experiment lol. Nobody drives exactly the same speed all the time and nobody will maintain their distance to the next driver because otherwise other cars will get in front of you.
duuuuuuuuuuuuuuhh....
