Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "We drove these electric cars until they DIED!" video.

  1. Interestingly, the motorways where I live initially had that rule on the books, and were treated exactly the the double lane passing sections present here and there on the standard state highways... It got thrown out (it ended up in court before it was resolved). Basically all it did was mean that half the road needed redoing twice as often and the whole thing couldn't actually handle any more traffic than the regular road it was supposed to replace.(the rule still applies to those passing lane setups, mind you, just not motorways) Of course, the way its set up, basically in one direction all the traffic is getting on, and none getting off, until after it hits the city and stops being a motorway, and in the other direction basically all the traffic is coming out of the city and splitting away from the motorway (until it eventually becomes a standard one-lane-each-way, at mostly 100 kilometre per hour, state highway.) So what usually happens is that traffic just continues on in whatever lane it's already in, with a slight bias toward the Right lane, because any cars entering and exiting do so via the leftmost lane. (Meanwhile, one of the other cities has motorway sections with moveable center barriers, the number of lanes available in each direction being changed to accommodate rush hour traffic. It may also have a few places with exits on the right rather than the left (due to an exit on the left in the same place leading to a different destination). Basically, lanes are chosen based primarily on destination (kind of like in Cities:Skylines)
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  2. ... why do you even have the extra lanes if you're not supposed to use them? Seems like you could save a fair bit of the roading budget by just having passing sections periodically instead of double lanes the whole way. Or, better yet, ban anything that's actually slow enough to require passing from the motorway entirely (assuming you've not managed to somehow have no alternative routes...), Then you don't even need that. Or just toss the rule entirely and save money on maintenance as a more even spread of traffic across both lanes significantly​ improves the useful lifetime of the road surface. (Or, if the entrance and exits are frequent enough, go with 'keep right unless entering/exiting/making an emergency stop). About the only setup worse than "keep left unless passing" would be... Ok I can think of downsides to others, but none that actually make them worse on balance. Just treat the motorway the same as any other multilane street: be in the lane that corresponds to the direction you're going at the next exit. Works much better. (Well, no. Obviously comply with the local road rules. The above is more about what the Road Rules should be/do)
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  3. Well, generally you should keep your phone between 40 and 60 % charged at all times, as the nature of the batteries is such that you'll get more up time out of the phone before the battery gives out for good if you do than if you let it drain super low then charge it to full every time (also, the battery takes less time to gain the same amount of charge in that bracket than at either end). This is caused by a combination of the nature of lithium ion batteries, and the safety features built into them to prevent them from bursting into flames (they are, at base, more dangerous than the older style batteries, requiring extra safety features that the old ones didn't have... Which results in them being safer than the old ones). If the cars use the same type of battery, the same will hold for them too. If they use something else then it will, of course, work differently.
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