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But one driver decided he shouldn't have to wait. One driver saw that the 4th lane was now almost empty coming up to the closing point.
This one driver pulls out from the 3rd lane and speeds down the now empty 4th lane right up to the orange cones.
This driver was a BMW driver.
Many other drivers took issue with Mr BMW.
The dick was still trying to merge at the end when I rolled up a few mins later as people were not letting him in.
I waved as I drove by.
A big part of motorway driving is anticipating what’s happening around you - not sitting in a chair coasting up to an inch of the car in front because you can’t be arsed to flex your right ankle.
It’s really a high-speed manifestation of people who drift towards you because they don’t want to have to change from second to first at a pedestrian crossing.
If people are jumping into ‘your’ safety gap to a point where the computer driving your car can’t cope, then it’s probably time to use your feet and eyes.
From one or two I've seen in the last few days, I think older BMWs are the worst. A lot of them seem to be driven by young guys who probably can't afford a newer one, and also think they are invincible.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Or at least I did when I had dumb cruise control. I don't like the adaptive at all.
I'm bloody sure a lot of this is down to some drivers' stubborn refusal to either momentarily interrupt their CC or set the gap a bit bigger.
I think it's fair to say that a lot of people do a lot of things badly.
The adaptive stuff makes me uneasy. I know software flies planes and all that, but the guts of those systems were written back in the late 70's.
Ask any software developer. All software has bugs in it, it's a matter of knowing where they are and what they do. If a dev tells you their software has no bugs, they're over-confident and bullshitting, and should be let nowhere near any sort of safety-critical system.
If you've got software written comparatively recently, you haven't any idea - it's a bit worrying how people trust this stuff in two tons of metal at 90mph.
I'm not saying one should therefore trust it 100%, but it's not like the kludges you see in commercial software.
The problem I have with adaptive is pretty much what you described - it can't look ahead in the same way I can, so it doesn't know that I'm going to overtake the car in the lane in front in plenty of time, so instead it hits a threshold distance and brakes. It doesn't even just let off the go-pedal to coast.
It's OK in traffic jams though.
Planes consider a sphere with a 1 mile radius around them actionable, 1000 feet is called a near miss. On the motorway we are 10 times closer than that of the Red Arrows in tight formation yet people are willing to trust a company that can't even master the simple water pump or even an ABS sensor with radar guided cruise control? It's insane.
They use blind teams in parallel and heaven-knows what else methodologies, and it's tight. I did a bit of reading about it once and it's impressive.
Thing is though, it's still being written by humans who are writing code to cope with horribly, horribly complex and often unpredictable data. Think about how complex the human brain is, then multiply that out over however many human brains there are operating vehicles at speeds of between 50 and 90mph in, say, 500m stretch of M40.
Round here I see so many lowered E46 coupes with horrid wheels and the de rigueur obnoxiously loud exhaust.
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I have enough trouble automating a quote spreadsheet with VBA.