Do you get to work faster by driving faster or slow and steady.

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skeptic_SA said:
The "elastic band effect". You race off at 150-170km/h while Doris plods along at 100km/h. You get to the robot before her. She catches you up within a minute or two. She stops 5 cars behind you. You race off at 100km/h and she dawdles along at 50km/h. You get stopped at the next red light. She doesn't because shes driving slow and hits all the green lights in succession (because SA robots are timed as ONLY an inept government could). This keeps extrapolating. You race off. She catches you a few minutes later (albeit behind 5 or 7 cars). And after a 20 minutes drive home... in reality she parks her car only 5 minutes after you. Except its your clutch and tires that are smoking and your life that was on the line numerous times during the drive.
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And my kids are pointing and laughing at you (even though I've told them not to because it's rude to laugh at mentally deficient people)
 
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Not a damn ....... N3 -- stop to scan Tolcon card, then its as fast as I can ........ recommended limit 120 <------------ Pffft
 
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How do you go any differently if traffic is standing equally still?

Being on a motorcycle is the only time faster and slowly truly apply and even then I would warrant the time spent in hospital per year when going too fast outweighs the time lost going at a reasonable pace.
 
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abzo said:
I still don't understand how slow and steady could ever possibly get you there faster than driving faster?
ELI5.
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Law of averages.

You might go faster for any peak moment, but for that very reason you might get stuck at every single robot and lose time stopped there while the other person is maintaining a slower peak speed but a higher average and missing the robots for instance.

All of that being said...with traffic in the way it's utterly pointless having this conversation as most of your trip is completely beyond your control.
 
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skeptic_SA said:
The "elastic band effect". You race off at 150-170km/h while Doris plods along at 100km/h. You get to the robot before her. She catches you up within a minute or two. She stops 5 cars behind you. You race off at 100km/h and she dawdles along at 50km/h. You get stopped at the next red light. She doesn't because shes driving slow and hits all the green lights in succession (because SA robots are timed as ONLY an inept government could). This keeps extrapolating. You race off. She catches you a few minutes later (albeit behind 5 or 7 cars). And after a 20 minutes drive home... in reality she parks her car only 5 minutes after you. Except its your clutch and tires that are smoking and your life that was on the line numerous times during the drive.
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True story.

On many occasions I get see them actually ending behind me, because when they come to a busy intersection they get jammed and I coast past. Often I see a gap opening up early enough to take it when I reach it, whilst those that drive stop-fast-stop don't have the momentum at the right time.
 
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Faster.

I get to work faster if I ride my bicycle than sit in my car stuck in traffic. So going faster is definitely the way.
 
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YingYang said:
The real question is this:

If you're traveling in a car at 120kmph will you get home faster than a guy with a truck traveling at 120?
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Of course if a truck manages 120km/h in traffic we have to assume it's pushing all the cars out of the way...so it will get there first.
 
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skeptic_SA said:
The "elastic band effect". You race off at 150-170km/h while Doris plods along at 100km/h. You get to the robot before her. She catches you up within a minute or two. She stops 5 cars behind you. You race off at 100km/h and she dawdles along at 50km/h. You get stopped at the next red light. She doesn't because shes driving slow and hits all the green lights in succession (because SA robots are timed as ONLY an inept government could). This keeps extrapolating. You race off. She catches you a few minutes later (albeit behind 5 or 7 cars). And after a 20 minutes drive home... in reality she parks her car only 5 minutes after you. Except its your clutch and tires that are smoking and your life that was on the line numerous times during the drive.
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Now the deeper question is does changing lanes the whole time versus simply staying in the same lane all the way make any difference?

I find that the same lane gets you there faster but again only slightly.

It just feels like it takes longer as you don't have all that much to do.
 
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Pretty sure slow and steady will win over time, all you need is one accident and you would lose years worth of gained time from driving fast.
 
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"Going faster only means you are enjoying your drive more than the one going slow" - abzo
 
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You mean to tell me you can choose how fast you want to drive? Lucky you, me on the other hand can only drive as fast as the oke in front of me, and him as fast as the oke in front of him and so it goes on... speed is limited by the amount of traffic... and there is always traffic :)
 
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irBosOtter said:
You mean to tell me you can choose how fast you want to drive? Lucky you, me on the other hand can only drive as fast as the oke in front of me, and him as fast as the oke in front of him and so it goes on... speed is limited by the amount of traffic... and there is always traffic :)
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you sound like the weakest link in the team
 
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