“we heavily biased the network against trains and now it’s just saying the optimal car consists of several metal struts connecting just two thinned out wheels that the driver sits on top of and propels themselves using pedals. It was busy redesigning intersections to have clear safe lanes for these bi-cycle ‘cars’ with plenty of trees / room for pedestrians when we pulled the plug…”
Even in bike racing the optimal form ends being to become a train. A peloton is just a train made up of bikes.
And then imagine if instead of wheels a bicycle was on a track with even greater reduced rolling resistance than skinny overinflated tires and didn’t require lumbar strength for balance.
Damn now I want pedal powered train
This is just the AI bias showing through: It’s all that training.
Nice pun, I think you railed it
They were certainly on the right track
People who are biased against trains have a real loco motive.
They’re all intent on just derailing the conversation!
So what you’re saying is the optimal form is some kind of crab train?
Hey there 👋, I know you mean well by that comment, like I get it, I do. ☺️ But I just wanted to let you know:
THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO STUDIES DONE ON THE SAFETY OF CRAB TRAINS.
ZERO.
But despite that, they are gaining widespread support, and now even people like yourself are calling them “optimal.”
Listen: Someone I know lost an arm in the pincer mechanism of one of these trains. More work needs to be done before we can consider them safe, nevermind “optimal”. Don’t buy into the techbro BS.
Friends don’t let friends crab train.
Hey, when the train needs blood the train gets blood
Choo choo Charlie intensifies
As a tf2 player. A crab train is majestic.
Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.
the last time I gave factorio a serious run was waaaay back in its beta, before it was even finished and had an end game.
its just gotten so complicated since then that I get overwhelmed, especially when you start to scale up and realize you fucked something up and have to undo an entire day of shit to move something 2 tiles or something.
embrace the spaghetti 🍝
Bots can do that shit. Ctrl+X, select, move the two tiles, place. Realize that’s still a tile off on the Y axis, and repeat. The bots don’t complain.
I will hand make the hundred or so blue science I need to make construction bots if I have to.
This was me but I tried it a year ago 😂
I tried about 6 months ago after falling deep into DoshDoshington’s various Factorio Mod and Challenge series.
I got about 15 hours in before I was just overwhelmed with what I was doing. I miss being young and eager.
ELEVATED RAILS my BELOVED ❤️
Sharing because I was delighted to learn this: trees are also an example of convergent evolution. I’m personally rooting for us to become trees. Pun intended.
That seems unfairly obvious, but I certainly didn’t consider it before.
Okay so now we are looking at some kind of tree-crab-train as the crown of creation, am I understanding this correctly?
Sounds like a creature from All Tomorrows
There’s likely some cases of convergent evolution, but I’m not sure this is settled for all trees.
I’d suspect that at least some trees with last common ancestors that are shrubs have re-enabled genes that enable the tree phenotype rather than independently evolving the tree phenotype.
But still really cool (and maybe turns on exactly how much evolution your consider needs to happen before it’s convergent evolution.)
Even the slime mould knows it: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/slime-mould-attacks-simulates-tokyo-rail-network
Minimum rolling friction by having hard wheels on a hard surface. Minimum wind resistance by making it long and narrow. Minimum stop time by having big doors.
BAM: train.
Well, the automotive industry has been working on making self driving a thing, and I recall when they first tried to tackle the problem of lane keeping.
The first proposal was to embed magnets or similar into the road surface that the car could have a set of sensors for to determine if it was drifting left or right in its lane.
Motherfucker, that’s just a virtual track for your dumb four-wheeled mini-train.
It didn’t catch on, but AFAIK it was implemented in small areas as a trial and it performed adequately given the technology of the time.
So I’m out here going, why the fuck are we pretending that vehicles are not just rail-free personal trains?
The first proposal was to embed magnets or similar into the road surface that the car could have a set of sensors for to determine if it was drifting left or right in its lane.
That’s a thing for forklifts since what, a century? Even better, they use a wire with a set frequency instead of magnets, it’s called wire guidance system.
TIL. Thanks for that. I wonder what frequency they use…
5g from the covid vaccines of course!
That’s the end game for self-driving cars. They can drive close enough together to draft, efficiency goes way up. If a problem happens ahead, they communicate back so that pileups don’t happen.
IMO, the big strength with self driving cars, if we ever get there is that level of car to car communication. The vehicle will be able to communicate ahead and see the best possible route, and where there’s congestion etc, then optimize the drive to avoid unnecessary delays.
A big problem with human drivers is the tenancy for ghost traffic jams to occur. There was a test they did with about 10-20 drivers of all varieties put into cars and told to drive a circle track, following eachother. No other instructions were given. All they need to do was keep distance in front of them and everything would be fine, what was observed was that some drivers went more quickly than others, and would brake to a near stop when they came close to the person in front. In doing so, everyone ended up basically in stop and go conditions.
IMO, that test exemplifies the problem with human drivers. Put enough of them on the same road and given enough drivers and enough time, traffic/congestion will create slowdowns that otherwise shouldn’t exist.
Taking people out of the equation means that all of the cars can accelerate at the same time and travel in tight packs, so merges are effortless because the entire system is working together to ensure that merging vehicles are able to merge (allowing sufficient space for them to merge), and perhaps more importantly, the merging cars will match pace with the flows of traffic already traveling on the road. Those are the two main tenants of a zipper merge. Find space to merge into, and match pace with the vehicles in the lane you are merging into. Seems that a lot of people forget that last bit.
So rush hour nonsense will at least be reduced.
video of a ghost traffic jam test: https://youtu.be/Suugn-p5C1M
I am looking for intersections with two catepillars of drafting vehicles that slightly intersperse to cross each other at right angles by microtiming the gaps to avoid collisions by microseconds.
The children inside make it scary
They make everything scary.
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I know right are they passengers, or are they stomach contents. And is the remaining full difference between the two
Okay I laughed while my exoskeleton genes got activated.
More like Carcinistation!
Cars in a station?
IDK why but I actually thought the title was this pun when I first read it. It was only after reading your comment that I realized that OP didn’t actually cash in on the joke (skill issue, smh).
You appear to have downvoted yourself.
Train cars are crabs. They’ve got an exoskeleton, they’re squat bodied, many legged, and have pincers on either side. All they have to do is start moving that body plan around some and they will be crabs.
Checks out: while they CAN move forward, they highly prefer to move side to side
Crab-spotting is completely undervalued as a cultural activity.
That girl had a crab ran on her last party.
Ha! I was thinking along these lines reading science fiction the other day. In every novel where stuff has to get moved overland, it’s always a train. No matter their tech level, trains are the simplest, most efficient solution.
There’s two kinds of ground transportation: off-roading, and should be a train.
