cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/28637207

Those who use the bike know this very well: in the city, speeding motorists overtaking other cars, only get one thing: they arrive first to the next red.

With a simple model, the author estimated the probability that one car that overtakes another, will then be reached again at a later red light. Then he estimated the probability that the same thing will happen when there are multiple successive traffic lights, as usual in the cities.

The result is that as fast as an aggressive driver goes, the presence of multiple traffic lights makes it virtually certain that a slower driver will catch up

So, if someone aggressively overcomes you, when you reach him at the next traffic light, you can tell him that it is mathematically proven that he/she is an idiot.

In addition, this study has implications for the 30 km/h city, demonstrating how in urban areas the traffic lights determine the travel times, not the maximum speed reachable between one traffic light and the next.

The original scientific article is here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/4/260310/481212/The-Voorhees-law-of-traffic-a-stochastic-model

crossposted from: https://poliversity.it/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/116419204210303856

A final attempt to broker a compromise between Germany and France over the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has failed, according to German media reports.

This is absolutely insane, this supposedly is built to handle our identification and personal information of the whole EU.

https://x.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is managing the repercussions of a public rebuke from US President Donald Trump this week over the pope, Iran and a defence deal with Israel. It's a rupture that had been building since the outbreak of the US-Israel war with Iran and may ultimately serve her political interests ahead of the 2027 legislative elections.

It was on a government plane somewhere between Verona and Rome that Itay's PM Giorgia Meloni learned that US President Donald Trump had called her "unacceptable". Her aides had flagged an interview the US president had given to Corriere della Sera published on April 14. She read it. Then, according to the Italian daily's account, the far-right PM settled on a line she had already used that afternoon: "Being allies does not mean there are no red lines, and it certainly does not mean being vassals or subjects."

Trump had been blunt. "I'm shocked at her. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong," he said in the Corriere interview. His grievances were twofold: Meloni's refusal to back the US-led war on Iran and her condemnation of his attacks on Pope Leo XIV as "unacceptable". “She is the one who is unacceptable,” Trump added, “because she doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance”.

The dispute also comes against the backdrop of Rome’s decision to suspend the renewal of a defence cooperation agreement with Israel, further fuelling tensions.

The exchange sent shockwaves across Italian political life, though not quite in the direction Trump may have intended.....

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Governments in Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium have begun rolling out their own messaging apps to prevent employees from using widely used encrypted messaging apps to share sensitive information and to shift to local alternatives that can be monitored. NATO also has its own messaging app, and the European Commission plans to launch one by the end of the year.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62769277

Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.

is another example of industry “ramping up their lobby efforts to shape EU legislation”, said Bram Vranken, who researches the area for Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO in Brussels. He said he had never seen such a striking example of changes to EU law.

“The fact that the Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment is shocking,” Vranken said. “Who does the Commission really represent: Big Tech or the public interest?”

Legal experts say the clause goes against the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Aarhus Convention, which grants public access to environmental information such as emissions data.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62707228