wagyl wrote:The hint can be found in the file name
Shot glasses, lime, and salt wasn't enough of a hint?
I don't know how much good it will do getting the kids up and ready for an early start though.
Yeah, that one had me scratching my balls too.
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wagyl wrote:The hint can be found in the file name
I don't know how much good it will do getting the kids up and ready for an early start though.
wuchan wrote:you must be doing Japan wrong.....
I don't know one single person making below 10M円 a year that pays more than 10% income tax including city/ward. Back home in the US you are lucky to deduct your way down to 15%.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:The hint can be found in the file name
Shot glasses, lime, and salt wasn't enough of a hint?I don't know how much good it will do getting the kids up and ready for an early start though.
Yeah, that one had me scratching my balls too.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:The hint can be found in the file name
Shot glasses, lime, and salt wasn't enough of a hint?
legion wrote:Toll booths are one of the causes of traffic jams. One of the advantages of riding a motorcycle without an ETC these days is the non ETC lanes now are always empty, the ETC ones are always jammed. Makes no difference with a car half the time because the queue usually backs way up and you can't go down the middle.
Coligny wrote:I'd say , it's more because of an organic evolution of the toll booth instead of a paradigm shift.
Introduction of the ETC system should have led to a split between slow gate for cash payments and faster lanes for etc cars. A system of photo+fine or delayed payment in case of problem instead of the 20kph crawl
Coligny wrote:The point is not how faster than allowed you can go. I never go more than 25 in case the car in front have to stop (another stupid risk due to the organic nature of the evolution).
But up to which speed can the system reliably read the ETC transponder. And i'm pretty sure that it can easily go up to 100 kph... Even if you have adapt the design a bit...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:legion wrote:Toll booths are one of the causes of traffic jams. One of the advantages of riding a motorcycle without an ETC these days is the non ETC lanes now are always empty, the ETC ones are always jammed. Makes no difference with a car half the time because the queue usually backs way up and you can't go down the middle.
The problem there isn't toll roads, it's poorly designed toll roads.
Russell wrote:Coligny wrote:The point is not how faster than allowed you can go. I never go more than 25 in case the car in front have to stop (another stupid risk due to the organic nature of the evolution).
But up to which speed can the system reliably read the ETC transponder. And i'm pretty sure that it can easily go up to 100 kph... Even if you have adapt the design a bit...
I am talking about the case there is no car in front of me. If there is, it is possible to go even faster if the car goes fast enough, though evidently there is risk attached to that.
If there is no car in front, then the bars don't open fast enough to accommodate 100 km/h. Of course using stronger servo motors to drive the bars would be a solution...
In my drive to Tokyo I encountered ETC sensors above the road that did the job of an ETC gate, i.e., calculating the fee. I did not need to slow down for that, so, yes, you are right, in the absence of bars 100 km / h and over is easy to handle by the system.
legion wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:
the problem is traffic volume, population density and everyone doing the same thing at the same time
Russell wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:The hint can be found in the file name
Shot glasses, lime, and salt wasn't enough of a hint?
I still don't get it.
Coligny wrote:Russell wrote:Coligny wrote:The point is not how faster than allowed you can go. I never go more than 25 in case the car in front have to stop (another stupid risk due to the organic nature of the evolution).
But up to which speed can the system reliably read the ETC transponder. And i'm pretty sure that it can easily go up to 100 kph... Even if you have adapt the design a bit...
I am talking about the case there is no car in front of me. If there is, it is possible to go even faster if the car goes fast enough, though evidently there is risk attached to that.
If there is no car in front, then the bars don't open fast enough to accommodate 100 km/h. Of course using stronger servo motors to drive the bars would be a solution...
In my drive to Tokyo I encountered ETC sensors above the road that did the job of an ETC gate, i.e., calculating the fee. I did not need to slow down for that, so, yes, you are right, in the absence of bars 100 km / h and over is easy to handle by the system.
Them bars are the organical throwback i wuz pesting aboot...
Fee evader can be ticketed like speeding cars, no need for gates anymore...
wagyl wrote:Quote of the day from Choko's posted video: "Your fanny gets sore and you're burning up gas for no reason."
wagyl wrote:Well my thought when the introduced ETC was that they have had numberplate reading tech on the expressways for years (I remember that they had records of Aum movements) so why are they making us pay for a transponder just so that we can have the privilege of paying them more money. The incentives were eventually enough to get me onside, especially when they stopped issuing prepaid cards.
Quote of the day from Choko's posted video: "Your fanny gets sore and you're burning up gas for no reason."
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