By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 11 March 2004
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Tim Courtney
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An interesting story. It is just a shame that the maths is bogus in a story about not massaging figures. Taking the 70mph estimate and 60000 cars per hour (10000 per lane) gives 2.8 cars per lane per second. At 70mph this gives 11.1m in between cars. Looking at a Ford Focus with length of 4m, this leaves an average inter-car gap of 7.1m. This is unrealistic (even for the M4!)
An interesting story. It is just a shame that the ...
Tim Courtney
Mr Cochrane's advice "Don't do it [manipulate figu...
Anonymous
While Peter makes some good points, I believe that...
Dominic Tristram
Despite the ropey arithmetic Mr Cochrane, I agree ...
Mark Hosey
(QUOTE) Six lanes of tightly packed cars are cruis...
Anonymous
Anonymous,
Your comment illustrates Peter's po...
Will Eastbury
"only a fool breaks the 2-second rule". On that ba...
Gareth Williams
Is driving to the recycling point an example of st...
Anonymous
How many wash cans and bottles in hot water?
Me...
Anonymous
Do the right thing or do the popular thing? The r...
Mike McCreadie
Thanks to Gareth Williams for debunking the assump...
Albert Einstein
An interesting article designed more to provoke th...
Reed Howey
I have to agree with the former NHS IT Manager and...
Anonymous
QUOTE "But the practice of manipulating data is so...
Roger Brewster
Targets ALWAYS sub-optimise performance. What shou...
Richard Harrison
An example of flawed research giving bogus conclus...
B Collin
Interesting thoughts but Peter should have checked...
Richard Gibson
I would be extremely careful about manipulating da...
Ray Hooper
Fractal stupidity or just not knowledgable? Peter ...
Jerry Schneider
Sales Director and myself gave different sales/del...
Anonymous
The correct figure to look at is not how much of t...
anonymous
It would be impossible for six lanes of motorway t...
Pike Oliver
Hmmm! I usually find myself in wholehearted agreem...
Bob Lewis
It looks like Peter has fallen foul of his own arg...
Steve C
While I am in full agreement with the notion of hu...
Anonymous
Basically, what everyone wants to say is that Pete...
Simon Heuristic
I find it amusing that as much as I wanted to call...
Sherry McClellan
Sir,
Gazing at the M-4 with all of six lanes, d...
Bob Huddy
I am amused at the geeky responses contesting figu...
Mike Bayliss
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