Things you wonder about.

Hopefully not, they are the kind you never want to be the majority.

To me, it looks more like a problem brought about by speeding. If speeds were limited according to increase and decrease in traffic, there would be better flow. If, for example drivers are intent "as they always will be", to drive at speed limit, regardless of increase in numbers of vehicles engaged in traffic, then, the problem is unsolvable. If speeds were modulated to deal with lower/higher vehicular usage, better flow would occur. This is only my opinion as regards highway travel.

I think that's the basic principle behind smart motorways. Sometimes they set the speed lower which actually increases flow. 'Driving slower is faster' doesn’t seem sensible so people complained about it and they got terrible publicity.

It's one of those things that the government could do to make things better, but people would never reward them for doing it. People are happier with the problem they have than trying to solve the problem.

Yes, tailgaters will always reign supreme, or so they think.

Time and planning, I'd imagine?

It's really unlikely you would rebuild the house exactly as it was originally so it would need all the checks and planning that a new house would need.

So just refitting a shell of a house is probably quicker and cheaper. Probably abcase of not letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Thats my point, why would you want it exactly like the old house? The old house was likely 40 to 100 years old, and not fit for modern living. I know planning laws are an issue but in a housing crisis, I think they shouldn't be so picky about what they allow to be built, within reason. A lot of these houses are in the middle of nowhere and so shouldn't really bother anyone if the design is different from the old house. They usually allow extensions on them anyway so just knock the old house and put in new foundations, you will end up with a way better modern house.

Yes, you could stop a compression wave if people back a kilometer, for example, slowed down a bit, but didn't stop. Then the compression wave would dissipate. But that can't work without technology telling the people further back to slow down. And that's the principle behind smart motorways. They anticipate traffic building up so they slow down the traffic upstream so it doesn't become a traffic jam. Once cars actually stop-start, it gets much slower and more dangerous.

I'm talking a lot about smart motorways. It's important to note than I'm not any kind of expert. I just watched a few videos on how they work.

The houses don't need to be ugly, they just need to prioritise speed and cost. If you also want to prioritise aesthetics, then you'll need to compromise on cost and time.

It's Time to admit we missed the boat and the people in charge didn't build enough when they had time and money to prioritise aesthetics.

Now we need houses to prevent our children being screwed, renting and waiting for us to die so they can own a house. We have the chance to do what our parents failed to do. Or we could sit on out hands and half-arse it like our parent's generation did.

I favour acting to solve the problem for our children even if it's not perfect. What do you want to do?

Why some people like to do donuts and burn outs with their cars in front of other car enthusiasts. I like cars and car racing etc but grow up, it isn't doing your car any good and its not making you look cool, the opposite in fact. The cars are usually bangers as well.

Carpenters Union.

True. My second question is whether this is just social media nonsense or does it actually reflect American's preferences?

It's hard to get a handle on what young people actually think and do vs what's presented in media.

NoNot expecting you to know the answer. It's something I wonder about.

Ah reducing decision fatigue… That makes loads of sense. Not as unreasonable as I thought it sounded.

Maybe it's something they talk about because young people tend to live at home for longer nowadays. Maybe their parents are making a lot of these decisions for them so they're not used to making decisions for themselves. If that's part of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there's research that shows parents make more decisions for boys than girls.

I'm making a note to myself to not deskill my young lad if he ends up living at home into his 20s.

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I've heard the research shows it hugely increases survival in case of an emergency.

Everyone has seen it dozens of times, but everyone panics in an actual emergency. The only people who have any chance of remembering the safety procedure are those who actually paid attention to the presentation in the very recent past so it's very fresh in their mind. Otherwise panic takes over and they have no chance of remembering it.

That's what I heard anyway.

Presumably they hope they say something that will make a headline like "plenty of porter" or "get the leg over whenever you can".