Driving & Traffic

To some extent even the light autonomy is causing a shift to drive by wire, so to some extent when the ‘steering wheel’ is essentially a controller, RHD vs LHD isn’t quite as much of a deal.

We should be saved by Toyota slowly beginning making actual EVs rather than their failed bet on Hydrogen, with the resulting RHD JDM cars.

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Melbourne’s newest freeway opened to traffic this afternoon. The 9km Mordialloc Freeway between Springvale Road at Edithvale and Dingley Bypass at Clayton in the city’s southeast is the extension of Mornington Peninsula Freeway, and has been on the plan for decades.

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Was featured on Seven News.


In Queensland:

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People will never learn ,it’s young people who are usually driving older cars that don’t have hands free/Bluetooth that are the main offenders :confused:

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For a moment I wondered ‘Do we have autonomous trucks in Aus already?’.

Shame the story doesn’t make clear what happened (e.g. was it parked & rolled downhill?).

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I’m guessing faulty mechanics etc caused it to roll downhill… they may not really know until the truck is inspected.

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Half a story; they should’ve asked how much raising the bridge would cost and therefore how quickly such an investment would be paid off, including calculating the huge, longer-term disruption of such construction work (vs the occasional 45 minutes).

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How about we stop building roads with tolls in the first place?

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I do think there are too many toll roads in the Sydney region, like most of Sydney Orbital Network (except Gore Hill Freeway, Cahill Expressway and a section of Eastern Distributor, which are toll-free).

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The issue then becomes

  1. Taxes have go up to pay for them
  2. People who don’t drive or won’t use them will complain.

At least Toll roads give users a choice in paying for them or using free but clogged up slower roads instead.

The best solution of all is more and better public transport, but this won’t suit everyone either.

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Since when speed reduction has anything to do with socialism? :roll_eyes:

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If governments/people want to reduce urban speed limits the least they can do is raise them on highways; 110 km/h is pathetically slow for a country with such distances between major population centres.

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A lot of them are not good enough for speeds above 110… other than motorways like the Hume and Pacific between Sydney and Melb/Bris. They could be 120 or even 130 km/h in parts.

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Of course not everything can handle fast speeds, but for the roads that can…

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Umm… :grimacing:

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The huge increase in revenue proves it’s revenue raising.

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