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Search the net for: Why UPS drivers don’t turn left and you probably shouldn’t either.:
GPS makers could license the code from UPS. The left turn only choice would be an an on/off option on the GPS.
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Wait, with left turn only or with no left turn only? |
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What about Michigan Lefts? |
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If you can't turn left you are in trouble once you get onto a motorway. |
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Sounds fine if you're a Fascist and only ever want to move further and further to the Right ... |
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Hmmm, is there a market for a GPS system which gives instructions in the form of a Füheresque rant ? A forseeable problem is of course that it would direct you not to where you actually want to go, but first into the Sudeteland, then the rest of Czechoslovakia, zen into Poland, UND ZEN ZER PANZER ATTACK OUT OFF ZER ARDENNES, CRUSHING ZER FRENCH ARMY UND DRIVING ZER ENGLISHER SWINE BACK TO DER CHANNEL ... <Coughing/> |
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What about those parts of your planet (and there are many) where the vehicle is guided down the approximate centre of the road by means of the driver's knee on the steering wheel, the hands being employed in the simultaneous manipulation of a mobile telephone handset and a lit cigarette ... ? |
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This would be a truly evil thing to do in North America.
I pity them, the drivers who haven't learned the keep left of the target location and only make right turns. |
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Does this make any sense in jurisdictions which
don’t have a “Turn on red” law? |
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Well, most places in South America, where they don't even seem to have a 'Stop on Red" law ... |
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What hippo said. In this town, you'd spend your whole day
sitting at ridiculously long red lights with no cars going by.
Unless you run them and just WaNtEd to go to the pokey. |
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(Meaning the lights, not the other cars as happened to me a
while ago.) |
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Mythbusters tested the UPS "only turn right" theory, but
(IMHO) they did it wrong.
They did it mostly using (as per [kdf]) "3 rights make a left",
along with the "free turn on red" law. It may save time, but
it adds distance.
Rather, they should plan the entire route of stops to be a
clockwise loop, so mostly right turns are needed (which UPS
might do...). |
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That's just a constrained version of the classic "traveling salesman" algorithm, so there might be a version already published on the Web. |
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I'm oftentimes expected to learn Britishisms here
through the years. They can learn about Michigan
lefts. |
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