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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 19 2019, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Wir-fahr'n-fahr'n-fahr'n-auf-der-Autobahn dept.

Brought to the floor by Senator John Moorlach of Orange County, SB-319 would direct the state's Department of Transportation to build two unlimited speed lanes on each side of Interstate 5 and State Route 99, the main north-south arteries linking cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. The sections of the roadways in question run straight through the supremely flat Central Valley, making for ideal high-speed driving conditions.

Perhaps paradoxically, California's answer to the German autobahn would be paid for by the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The text of SB-319 points out that the recent collapse of California's ambitious plan for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which was originally intended to trace the same route as the proposed unlimited speed lanes, has left residents without "access to high-speed, unabated transportation across the state."

http://www.thedrive.com/news/26554/california-might-add-lanes-with-no-speed-limits-to-major-highways


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:11AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:11AM (#803815)

    mpg ∝ 1/v ^2

    Double the speed, divide by 4 the mpg.

    Profit!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:36AM (#803895)

    12 mpg isn't all that shabby.

  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:57AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:57AM (#803923) Journal

    I drove two hours at 80mph on Sunday, got 60mpg

    Normally I average 20mph between refills and get 40mpg

    Just Perhaps it’s not quite as simple as that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53AM (#803944)

      The proportionality is not about averages. If you don't maintain a constant speed, the acceleration wastes a lot of extra fuel.

      That proportionality is valid for the case we are talking of the Autobahn not city driving starting and stopping.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:21PM (#803974)

    No, check your math. 2x the speed, 2x the gas usage.

    mpg is proportional to 1/v above about 70-80mph. Below that, it's not because the aerodynamics of the car play less importance than actual frictions in the systems.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:54PM (#807165)

    Do you not have a transmission in your car?