Is it magnetics or gravity?

[tomf]

Is it magnetics or gravity? When I pass some cars they speed up like they are being pulled by my car, what force of nature is this? Does it hurt my gas milage to be pulling these cars?


This affect is more powerful when people are going slow in the passing lane, and you pass them on the right. Once I passed a guy who was going slow in the passing lane, his car was pulled to what ever speed I was going. To see just how much my car was affecting his I speed up to 65 mph, and down to 45 mph. I was having a good time doing this, and at about the third time up and down, he figured out what I was doing and gave me such a dirty look like it was my fault he was unaware of how he was driving.

[applestar]

Your car must be the ST edition and you probably have the tractor beam on auto-on setting.

...it costs you nothing since you are using the anti-matter engine.

[rainbowgardener]

[webmaster]

I avoid this by passing them up definitively. Pass them up and keep on going, at least twenty miles per hour faster than they're going. It takes a strong commitment to want to keep up with me under that scenario and most autos do not.

Ever play the lead car game? That's where you trail a fast driver by a quarter mile or more. Lurking cops will snag them first.

[DoubleDogFarm]

A cyclic model is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch; in the interim, the universe would expand for a period of time before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.


So be careful if you have kids in the car.

Eric

[tomf]

Dark mater.

[DoubleDogFarm]

[!potatoes!]

what I notice is that I get stuck behind someone who is using the passing lane to travel slightly slower than the speed limit and not pass. they eventually find a place to get into the other lane, which would leave me free to pass them, except that that's when they accelerate.

[tomf]

Then some times I am in the right lane and doing the traditional 5 over in cruse-control when a car come flying past cuts right in front of me and slows down. I then have to break and take it out of cruse! There is one exit where the farm workers do this and then jam on their breaks to take the exit, as it is early morning there is no other traffic around me.
Many people do not drive with their brain, but with their emotions. We all see so many stupid things, just think if people would drive intelligently how many more people would be healthy or alive today.

[applestar]

Speaking of exits, sometimes, I'm headed for a cloverleaf exit ramp and a car is getting on the highway headed for that exact spot where we would hit each other. Even though I have my turn signal on and I slow down even more to allow the car to speed up and get on the highway, sometimes, these cars will instead slow to a crawl but not stop so that now, physics dictates that we're on trajectories to hit each other again

I'm thinking I HAVE to slow down to take the jughandle exit ramp anyway, and they have to speed up to merge into the traffic so OBVIOUSLY they should speed up. Oh well

[rainbowgardener]

Yes, I very nearly did have an accident in exactly that scenario one time. Person would just NOT get the message that they should speed up and go in front of me. And then at that point, I'm afraid to speed up, in case they get the same idea at the same time and we just hit each other faster....

[DoubleDogFarm]

and some inventor wants us to shoot around in tubes at 800MPH. So what exactly is that green stuff when a bug hits the windshield.

Eric

[tomc]

Live fast, die young, leave a puddled corpse...

By the time you can notice there is a red shift in the things you pass by, you're going too fast.

[DoubleDogFarm]

I'm more concerned with Blueshift where the object is head towards you.


Eric

[tomf]

Red shift, blue shift, you guys must be moving very fast! I just hear hear the doppler effect.
In a test, there were two very accurate clocks, one on the ground, and one in a fast jet plane. The jet flew some distance, and when it landed the two clocks were compared. The jet's clock was behind the ground clock, so the jet's time was shorter by going fast. This shows the time fluctuation of speed. So when people drive faster their drive time is shorter, not by much, but your life could be much shorter.

[!potatoes!]

Live fast, die young, leave a puddled corpse...

saw a t-shirt the other day with a picture of a sloth on it and 'live slow - die whenever'