Tokyo Genki Blog » accident http://www.tokyo-genki.com So much not about Tokyo Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:48:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Shockwave traffic jams http://www.tokyo-genki.com/2010-03-01/shockwave-traffic-jams/ http://www.tokyo-genki.com/2010-03-01/shockwave-traffic-jams/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:25:25 +0000 Yves http://www.tokyo-genki.com/?p=506

Traffic jams that occur for no reason, replicated for the first time on a test track.

Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.

The mathematical theory behind these so-called “shockwave” jams was developed more than 15 years ago using models that show jams appear from nowhere on roads carrying their maximum capacity of free-flowing traffic – typically triggered by a single driver slowing down.

Read article at newscientist.com

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According to this website, at around 5:30am on June 27, China beat the world record of giant dominos. Only just one building (unoccupied and still under construction) at Lianhuanan Road in the Minxing district of Shanghai city fell over. Congrats!

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So, you mean, the wild animal had to be killed because it …behaved like a wild animal?

Chris Rock says it more eloquently than me: That tiger didn’t go crazy, that tiger went tiger!

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