@@billcipher1212 Well Germany doesn't have different speed limits for different lanes, its just obligated to drive on the right-most lane possible and not allowed to overtake on the right side of the driver in front so it is just natural that faster cars usually are on the left lines and slower cars and cargo trucks on the right lanes
You have to get Americans to unilaterally agree that slower drivers stay to the right. Go visit Atlanta if you want to see how badly this fails. Grandpa in the left lane in his 1978 Buick ….
Drivers are too selfish here. People would riot if we had German style photo enforcement: Instant $100 1 point infraction for following less than 1s behind a vehicle. Automatic 1 month license suspension and $250 fine if less than .5s. Instant $80 fine for undertaking (passing on right) OR not keeping right except to pass or let faster traffic pass (20 second tolerance). When speed is restricted, $100 fine at 12mph over; 1 month license suspension at 18 mph over. Legally driving 150mph+ requires a bit of drive and road maintainer responsibility.
@nishimura9242 TH-cam returned me here again a second time. That was exaclty who I had imagined. By the way, he is the one leaving the stage before Dan's presentation. I had not noticed it.
This guy bringing back a lost art. A genuinely funny comedian you can watch with your kids without being worried? No touchy subjects or buzzword politics? Yeah, I'm definitely subscribing.
meh, sometimes the polotics are funny, just depends on if the comedian actually knows how to make it comedic theres a difference between being able to joke about both sides, and shitting on only one side.
Yup, I gave a chuckle then was quickly looking at the numbers going "wait a minute, those don't really.... " (calculator ... + ... + ... ) "holy shit it is 405"
@@TheSilliestGoose731Same here; The equation was in the form of the quadratic formula, making it easy to work backwards into the quadratic itself. Then it's just a case of factoring and solving.
The irony of being pissed at people on their cell phone... then you should be able to text... That said, I always thought "snitch bounties" could help with stuff like that, like give the snitcher 10% of the ticket cost if the person is convicted or pays off a ticket for well anything!
@@Mike__B but then you'd need a system to make sure that what the snitcher says is actually true. To make sure they don't lie to get money. Which would probably end up costing much more than it pays off
@@Cora.TWell that's why I said cost of ticket/conviction. Kind of like rewards that "lead to the conviction of...", I'm not saying going complete anarchy, Constitutional amendments still apply and all that good stuff, but since police aren't everywhere it could give a little bit of financial incentive for people to go from "well it's not my problem" to "hey police, there's this problem"
Can’t wait to see him next month in Orlando. I’m a nerd engineer first, then sales guy who does PowerPoints and demos. I make jokes all the time on business calls. “My current joke is….I gave you the nickel tour of the product, but I guess it’s a dime now due to inflation”, it keeps people attentive in boring business meetings.
The problem is people don't know how to use the lanes. In the UK it's keep in left lane unless your over taking, and then get back in left lane once you've over taken car in front. Problem is to many people don't understand something so simple and stay in the wrong lane causing issues for others.
Great stuff, Don! Something that always drives me nuts is the stop/go attempt to regulate on-ramps. You’re just burning more fuel sitting and creeping at idle, and all the traffic lights are doing is trying to mask and overcomplicate the fundamental problem: people who struggle with confidence merging. What if, instead, we took a page from the “meatball” on an aircraft carrier and the sequential lighting of a runway? What if we had sequential lights that flashed from slow to faster speeds as you progress down the on-ramp in such a way that, all you have to do to match merging speed is to keep the current light in your driver’s side window lit? It’s the same effect as when you record a helicopter on camera, and the blades rotate at the same frequency as the frame rate, making it look like the blades aren’t spinning. This approach would instantaneously communicate to a driver if they’re going fast enough to merge, and from there, all they have to do is check their blind spot on their left, adjust acceleration slightly not to kill the guy who’s occupying the spot you’re set to merge, and you’re not bogging down traffic 2-3 miles behind you as you try to juggle calculus subconsciously.
You fundamentally misunderstand the problem ramp metering solves, which is that surface traffic tends to clump at intersections, and when a clump of cars tries to merge onto an at- or near-capacity freeway, it introduces waves of conflict, which causes people to slow down or come to a grinding halt. Ramp metering breaks apart the clumps and lessens the merging conflicts and allows traffic to flow smoothly.
Me waiting a friend coming from another Town.. 70km away, should take him 30min.. I’m calling cuz he’s late, He, asking where the intersection Is😂 Me: “Follow the Signs Man!” He: “What signs?” Me: “What is your Speed?” He: 200+ 😂 Missed my Town 3 times 😂
I'm gong to share this at work, but not (just) because it's funny. Your act demonstrates the proper use of slides to support a performance - something the workplace fails at a lot. But let's face it: these great jokes are going to make it stick.
Clearly Don is an American. The speed limit by lane is a thing here in Central Europe. It is not the lower limit though, but the upper limit. But to solve traffic, you need a good, efficient and convenient public transit system. Not 5 lanes in each direction.
The upper limit thing is done, too. At least in Saudi Arabia, where I currently live. They only missed the "Go for it lane" for some reason, the left-most lane is 140 km/h.
@erikziak1249 - Yes, Don's talking about Los Angeles California. While your public transit idea is nice, realize that California- which isn't even the largest US state- is larger than approximately 45 European countries. Please tell me how to have a nice, efficient public transit system with that huge of a scale. Additionally, LA does have a public transit system just for the city- but It just becomes another bureaucratic nightmare to complain about.
@@ChaimS I can take the train from Lissabon, Portugal to Danzig, Poland and I will have a better train infrastructure on every single kilometer of that 3300km journey than I will have anywhere in California, a state that is not even half as long north to south. The size of a country has nothig to do with how possible it is to build good transportation infrastructure. There is an excellent video about this topic called "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" by Not Just Bikes. I implore you to watch it with an open mind. The American transportation infrastructure really can be improved, and *everyone* would benefit from it.
@@zockertwins The infrastructure gets split up into a few different countries there. yes, they'll work together for scale and logistics, but the issues of funding and construction are still split between the various powers involved. Can't do that in the U.S., the whole thing (nationwide) would fall under the DOT, which can't fix a fucking pothole. If you're going to limit it to states/cities, then you run into the same scale issues. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe and it is *almost* the size of Texas. Combine that with the fact that everything in the U.S. is very spread out, and you have the problem that the train would have to stop every 15 feet because of the way houses are built here.
@@Rattlehead-gy9ct If the whole infrastructure is split up into the responsibilities of many different countries, does that not create standardization issues, responsibility issues and language and cultural barriers that make it harder to build a common infrastructure system? Funding a project is a lot easier when economically well-developed regions and less developed regions are working together as one nation instead of having to build many national transportation systems like in Europe. Let's look at an example that is on the same scale in Europe and the US: I want to go from Fort Worth to Dallas in the US and from Rotterdam to The Hague in Europe. If I go by car, it's a 30 to 40 minute trip in both cases, so the distances are similar. If I go by train, it's a 1 hour trip with a train that departs every hour in the US and a 30 minute trip with trains departing every 15 minutes in Europe. Is that because the rest of Texas is larger than the Netherlands? I don't see how that would be onnected in any way. The reason the DOT has not built a better train connection between Fort Worth and Dallas is not that it's not possible, but it is precisely the DOT is spending all its money trying to fix all the potholes from the millions of miles of roads and millions of cars that infest american cities _precisely because there is no functioning public transport_ . Transporting 100k people into and out of a city every day is many times cheaper, more space and time efficient and better for the health of the commuter with trains than with cars.
They'd hopefully pay attention, be nice, get over and reduce speed to safety allow the pass and then get back on it. No one seems to get that in my state. Others have it posted on the road slower traffic move over or use right lanes
One can never be early or late. You are always exactly where you are supposed to be, exactly when you are supposed to be there. Ex: If you left for work "early", got a flat tire and arrived "late"... People who think time exists 🤔 It's just relative to you and how you perceive it, as opposed to say a tortoise. There has been studies about people who experience the passing of time in very different ways. Just remember... You didn't show up "late", everyone else just showed up "early"!! 😂
two problems with your "allocate by minimum speed" idea -- first, there also needs to be a maximum that allows just a little overlap to the next faster lane. You don't want the high score driver in the right lane. Second, those speeds need to be variable based on two things: following distance (you have no business going fast if you don't leave room in front to react) and traffic over the next 2 miles (no need to pack traffic into a slow area. These changes would make it more effective and safe. It's 2024, we have the technology to make it work. I also think adding a new set of "spacer pacer" lights to help with the merge gaps would be handy...Yes, these are ideas I've already considered.
@@skop6321 do driving when n the cellphone lane would be a self report? Very clever. And yes, probably half the accidents around my area happen because someone was staring at their phone.
Left lane is 'go for it'? Welcome to Germany. :D
Was just looking for the coment XD
But I like the new addition of a high-speed system XD
I actually like that about Germany because it almost kinda justifies owning a performance car.
ngl until now i thought the rest of the world also had lanes with different speedlimits
@@billcipher1212 Well Germany doesn't have different speed limits for different lanes, its just obligated to drive on the right-most lane possible and not allowed to overtake on the right side of the driver in front so it is just natural that faster cars usually are on the left lines and slower cars and cargo trucks on the right lanes
@@eurofalke6804 i dont have a drivers license soi don't know these things, ty for the education
"I paid for the whole speedometer, I'm going to use the whole speedometer."
I’m pretty sure home thermostats go up to 90° too but nobody ever thought of that now did they?
YES!! American Autobahn!! Ive said it for yrs that we need this.
You have to get Americans to unilaterally agree that slower drivers stay to the right. Go visit Atlanta if you want to see how badly this fails. Grandpa in the left lane in his 1978 Buick ….
I feel like we'd probably also need better driver's ed for that to happen. Not saying I'm against it though.
Drivers are too selfish here. People would riot if we had German style photo enforcement: Instant $100 1 point infraction for following less than 1s behind a vehicle. Automatic 1 month license suspension and $250 fine if less than .5s. Instant $80 fine for undertaking (passing on right) OR not keeping right except to pass or let faster traffic pass (20 second tolerance). When speed is restricted, $100 fine at 12mph over; 1 month license suspension at 18 mph over.
Legally driving 150mph+ requires a bit of drive and road maintainer responsibility.
@@kersplody7435And not to mention how many people here in the U.S. can't drive correctly as it is.
As a Brazilian engineer I am deeply pleased by this little crossover moment lol
Quem era o brazileiro de 6'7?
Rafinha?
@@guiguspi isso, lá ele chama Rafi
@nishimura9242 TH-cam returned me here again a second time.
That was exaclty who I had imagined.
By the way, he is the one leaving the stage before Dan's presentation. I had not noticed it.
This guy bringing back a lost art. A genuinely funny comedian you can watch with your kids without being worried? No touchy subjects or buzzword politics? Yeah, I'm definitely subscribing.
meh, sometimes the polotics are funny, just depends on if the comedian actually knows how to make it comedic
theres a difference between being able to joke about both sides, and shitting on only one side.
Yes, I was one of the nerds checking his math...
Me too. Paused video for 3 minutes to do it. Lol
Yup, I gave a chuckle then was quickly looking at the numbers going "wait a minute, those don't really.... " (calculator ... + ... + ... ) "holy shit it is 405"
Yup. Took me a bit. Oddly enough, I was able to solve Stephen He’s Quadratic Equation faster than I checked his math. In my head.
And see, i cant imagine anyone who DID NOT check his math. Numbers on a screen. Dont you just want to do something with them?!
@@TheSilliestGoose731Same here;
The equation was in the form of the quadratic formula, making it easy to work backwards into the quadratic itself. Then it's just a case of factoring and solving.
I laughed so hard at being able to text the license plate number. I have thought about that for you.
The irony of being pissed at people on their cell phone... then you should be able to text...
That said, I always thought "snitch bounties" could help with stuff like that, like give the snitcher 10% of the ticket cost if the person is convicted or pays off a ticket for well anything!
@@Mike__B but then you'd need a system to make sure that what the snitcher says is actually true. To make sure they don't lie to get money. Which would probably end up costing much more than it pays off
@@Cora.TWell that's why I said cost of ticket/conviction. Kind of like rewards that "lead to the conviction of...", I'm not saying going complete anarchy, Constitutional amendments still apply and all that good stuff, but since police aren't everywhere it could give a little bit of financial incentive for people to go from "well it's not my problem" to "hey police, there's this problem"
Can’t wait to see him next month in Orlando. I’m a nerd engineer first, then sales guy who does PowerPoints and demos. I make jokes all the time on business calls. “My current joke is….I gave you the nickel tour of the product, but I guess it’s a dime now due to inflation”, it keeps people attentive in boring business meetings.
The problem is people don't know how to use the lanes.
In the UK it's keep in left lane unless your over taking, and then get back in left lane once you've over taken car in front.
Problem is to many people don't understand something so simple and stay in the wrong lane causing issues for others.
Great stuff, Don!
Something that always drives me nuts is the stop/go attempt to regulate on-ramps. You’re just burning more fuel sitting and creeping at idle, and all the traffic lights are doing is trying to mask and overcomplicate the fundamental problem: people who struggle with confidence merging.
What if, instead, we took a page from the “meatball” on an aircraft carrier and the sequential lighting of a runway?
What if we had sequential lights that flashed from slow to faster speeds as you progress down the on-ramp in such a way that, all you have to do to match merging speed is to keep the current light in your driver’s side window lit?
It’s the same effect as when you record a helicopter on camera, and the blades rotate at the same frequency as the frame rate, making it look like the blades aren’t spinning.
This approach would instantaneously communicate to a driver if they’re going fast enough to merge, and from there, all they have to do is check their blind spot on their left, adjust acceleration slightly not to kill the guy who’s occupying the spot you’re set to merge, and you’re not bogging down traffic 2-3 miles behind you as you try to juggle calculus subconsciously.
You fundamentally misunderstand the problem ramp metering solves, which is that surface traffic tends to clump at intersections, and when a clump of cars tries to merge onto an at- or near-capacity freeway, it introduces waves of conflict, which causes people to slow down or come to a grinding halt. Ramp metering breaks apart the clumps and lessens the merging conflicts and allows traffic to flow smoothly.
1:34 darn it I had to check
individual lane speeds would be a huge improvement.
Every time I get in the Go For It lane, I end up back in the 1950s. Stupid Flux Capacitor.
Great Scott!
What he says about Santa Clarita absolutely correct! Hilarious!!!
Actually your ‘Allot Lanes by Minimum Speed’ is the correct way to drive on any multilane highway. Ask the Germans, they invented the autobahn.
Ask anyone in the EU. When I saw how drivers behave in the US I was shocked.
You have invented the Autobahn XD
texting license plate is genius.
Me waiting a friend coming from another Town.. 70km away, should take him 30min..
I’m calling cuz he’s late, He, asking where the intersection Is😂
Me: “Follow the Signs Man!”
He: “What signs?”
Me: “What is your Speed?”
He: 200+
😂
Missed my Town 3 times 😂
Hahahahhaa... another powerpoint.
You mean your lanes aren't already organised like that ? 🤔
0:00 random Rafinha Bastos is random xD
thank you for the video
As someone who learned to drive in Germany, I agree.
That freeway is called Autobahn
I'm gong to share this at work, but not (just) because it's funny. Your act demonstrates the proper use of slides to support a performance - something the workplace fails at a lot. But let's face it: these great jokes are going to make it stick.
Ya, he dezkribed ze German autobahn.
Clearly Don is an American. The speed limit by lane is a thing here in Central Europe. It is not the lower limit though, but the upper limit. But to solve traffic, you need a good, efficient and convenient public transit system. Not 5 lanes in each direction.
The upper limit thing is done, too. At least in Saudi Arabia, where I currently live. They only missed the "Go for it lane" for some reason, the left-most lane is 140 km/h.
@erikziak1249 - Yes, Don's talking about Los Angeles California. While your public transit idea is nice, realize that California- which isn't even the largest US state- is larger than approximately 45 European countries. Please tell me how to have a nice, efficient public transit system with that huge of a scale. Additionally, LA does have a public transit system just for the city- but It just becomes another bureaucratic nightmare to complain about.
@@ChaimS I can take the train from Lissabon, Portugal to Danzig, Poland and I will have a better train infrastructure on every single kilometer of that 3300km journey than I will have anywhere in California, a state that is not even half as long north to south. The size of a country has nothig to do with how possible it is to build good transportation infrastructure. There is an excellent video about this topic called "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" by Not Just Bikes. I implore you to watch it with an open mind. The American transportation infrastructure really can be improved, and *everyone* would benefit from it.
@@zockertwins The infrastructure gets split up into a few different countries there. yes, they'll work together for scale and logistics, but the issues of funding and construction are still split between the various powers involved. Can't do that in the U.S., the whole thing (nationwide) would fall under the DOT, which can't fix a fucking pothole. If you're going to limit it to states/cities, then you run into the same scale issues. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe and it is *almost* the size of Texas. Combine that with the fact that everything in the U.S. is very spread out, and you have the problem that the train would have to stop every 15 feet because of the way houses are built here.
@@Rattlehead-gy9ct If the whole infrastructure is split up into the responsibilities of many different countries, does that not create standardization issues, responsibility issues and language and cultural barriers that make it harder to build a common infrastructure system? Funding a project is a lot easier when economically well-developed regions and less developed regions are working together as one nation instead of having to build many national transportation systems like in Europe. Let's look at an example that is on the same scale in Europe and the US: I want to go from Fort Worth to Dallas in the US and from Rotterdam to The Hague in Europe. If I go by car, it's a 30 to 40 minute trip in both cases, so the distances are similar. If I go by train, it's a 1 hour trip with a train that departs every hour in the US and a 30 minute trip with trains departing every 15 minutes in Europe. Is that because the rest of Texas is larger than the Netherlands? I don't see how that would be onnected in any way. The reason the DOT has not built a better train connection between Fort Worth and Dallas is not that it's not possible, but it is precisely the DOT is spending all its money trying to fix all the potholes from the millions of miles of roads and millions of cars that infest american cities _precisely because there is no functioning public transport_ . Transporting 100k people into and out of a city every day is many times cheaper, more space and time efficient and better for the health of the commuter with trains than with cars.
ahuaua that's what we want
But where do the cars that only drive 120mph move to when someone with some real momentum comes along?
They'd hopefully pay attention, be nice, get over and reduce speed to safety allow the pass and then get back on it. No one seems to get that in my state. Others have it posted on the road slower traffic move over or use right lanes
Maybe it's just me, but I think "SEND IT" would be a better tag than "GO FOR IT", but a very good bit regardless.
What are you silly? I'm still gonna send it.
As a retired LEO I approve
I am not a nerd but I did the maths.
It seems you guys saw Rafinha Bastos there.
123 only?... yall aren't even trying.
Just like Utah
One can never be early or late. You are always exactly where you are supposed to be, exactly when you are supposed to be there.
Ex: If you left for work "early", got a flat tire and arrived "late"...
People who think time exists 🤔
It's just relative to you and how you perceive it, as opposed to say a tortoise.
There has been studies about people who experience the passing of time in very different ways.
Just remember...
You didn't show up "late", everyone else just showed up "early"!! 😂
Here you get fined if a police sees you talking to phone while driving for endangering of traffic safety.
What use is having those higher speed limits if the traffic is so bad that you're always moving at a crawl?
always crawling because of fkn idiots not using the cell phone lane
Devices should be installed in steering wheels that disable all cell phones within a 3 foot radius. At least within the space of the driver.
But it should be OK for passengers so long as they don't distract the driver.
two problems with your "allocate by minimum speed" idea -- first, there also needs to be a maximum that allows just a little overlap to the next faster lane. You don't want the high score driver in the right lane. Second, those speeds need to be variable based on two things: following distance (you have no business going fast if you don't leave room in front to react) and traffic over the next 2 miles (no need to pack traffic into a slow area. These changes would make it more effective and safe. It's 2024, we have the technology to make it work. I also think adding a new set of "spacer pacer" lights to help with the merge gaps would be handy...Yes, these are ideas I've already considered.
Are you actually allowed to be on your cellphone while driving in the US?
Allowed ? no.
Lots of people do it anyway ? yes
@@skop6321 do driving when n the cellphone lane would be a self report? Very clever.
And yes, probably half the accidents around my area happen because someone was staring at their phone.
Shouldn't this video been 30 minutes long?
Stop scaring the police
get a life