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actually, that particular example has an easy solution... rebuild the road
and add a bunch of turns in it...
Most US roads are constructed nice and straight... long, sleep inducing
highways... with correspondingly high accident rates.
Take Europe for example (and Germany in particular), their highways have
numerous turns in them, and consequently have a much lower incidence of
accidents caused by the driver falling asleep behind the wheel.
not that this has anything to do with e-bay... they can't really make it
that much twistier to deal with...
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> metallik wrote:
>> > Kind of like building an overpass at the most dangerous traffic
>> > intersection in the state. Pretty soon, the first intersection is
>> > safe, but the NEXT intersection is now the most dangerous.
>>
>> Hm, but if you were going to build an overpass, wouldn't it make sense
>> to start with the most dangerous intersection? I have no idea how this
>> applies to ebay, but there's a few intersections around here that could
>> sure use overpasses..
>
> You're kind of missing the point!
If you don't solve the root
> problem, then all you'll do is displace it someplace else.
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> This particular example happened north of Chicago. I-94 and US-41 both
> share the same pavement, then on the north side of the city 94 hangs a
> left while 41 keeps going straight north. (In a strange twist, the
> roads meet up again close to the Wisconsin border.) For years, the
> first intersection after the split (lake-cook road) was the most
> dangerous intersection in Illinois...
>
> ...people would fall asleep at the wheel, and then not notice that they
> were plowing into stopped traffic. The most horrific accidents were
> involving trucks, of course, but regular cars did it as well. The
> state tried all sorts of things; strobe lights going off when the light
> was red, flashing signs 3000 ft. away from the intersection, even
> installed an unmanned radar emitter so that radar detectors would go
> off when approaching that intersection from the south. They all
> helped, but it was still the most dangerous intersection in Illinois.
>
> So one day, some jackass decided to spend a lot of pork and convert it
> to an overpass. $50M later, and guess what? Yup, the _next_
> intersection is now the most dangerous. Not surprisingly, the strobe
> lights have gone back up, the rader emitter was moved, and the signs
> repositioned.
>
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