http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-cars-left-stranded-on-motorway-in-China.html

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-cars-left-stranded-on-motorway-in-China.html

Look at all the room they have for additional lanes, and all the people sitting in their cars that could be working at toll booth operators. Quite a hit to productivity. They will be late for valuable family activities like rushing their children to soccer practice and play dates so someone else can interact with their children. Oh, wait. That is a picture of China, not he US.

 

"The nightmare bottleneck was reportedly caused by the combination of a new checkpoint, which sharply reduced the amount of lanes on the motorway from an estimated 50 to 20, and foggy weather."

50 lanes? 50?

 

"The nightmare bottleneck was reportedly caused by the combination of a new checkpoint, which sharply reduced the amount of lanes on the motorway from an estimated 50 to 20, and foggy weather."

50 lanes? 50?

I only count 49 at the bottom of the picture. 25 at the toll booth (Check point?).

 

And what is this guy doing?

 

And what is this guy doing?

I see the driver with a woman in the backseat and the car is rocking. (viewed with time displacement technology )


http://g01.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1Salm...el-bed-Pump-pillows-for-sleep.jpg_350x350.jpg

 

Good job! Any other technologies in your bag of tricks?

 

Good job! Any other technologies in your bag of tricks?

I could have cranked the dial to 1.21 gigawatts for a 4K Ultra HD 3D video but this is a family website.

 

An estimated 750 million people, half the country’s population, were expected to travel...

This is why I prefer 'staycations'.

 

Oh, wait. That is a picture of China, not he US.

Yea the Chinese have 20 checkpoint lanes open for 50 lanes of traffic. In the US they would have done like Walmart does with their checkouts and had 6 lanes open, and at least 2 of those lanes would have trainees that have no clue what they are doing running them, out of the 50 when the traffic peaked.

 

Yea the Chinese have 20 checkpoint lanes open for 50 lanes of traffic. In the US they would have done like Walmart does with their checkouts and had 6 lanes open, and at least 2 of those lanes would have trainees that have no clue what they are doing running them, out of the 50 when the traffic peaked.

Here in Florida we have toll-by-plate and SunPass. We don't need no stinkin' toll booths.

We got self-checkout too. Cheerful cashiers always annoyed me.

 

Blew a fuse on this one.

 

Blew a fuse on this one.
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Trademark protection software built in! Like Google Map's "street view" automatically blurs faces and license plate numbers.

 

Getting home to meet your family before new year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun

 

Getting home to meet your family before new year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun

I wonder if there is a noticeable shift of the Earth's rotational axis during this time...