That's a pointless comparison.

1) The Michelin is 120 euro tire, vs the 60 euro Barum

2) The test page says nothing about the test conditions in which the tires were tested.

3) The Michelin tire test explicitly states:

     The testers explicitly recommended against standardizing cars with all-season tyres in Sweden, suggesting that drivers would be better served by dedicated summer tyres paired with proper winter tyres when the season changes, rather than this compromise solution that fell well short of true summer tyre performance.

From what I've heard from people driving them, AWD is better than FWD going uphill, but a lot worse going downhill.

> In contrast, my American business bank just sends unprompted e-mails sometimes asking if I would like to borrow a bunch of money.

> American trust is based on rationality and intuition

Just remind us where the 2008 subprime crisis started again?

Nice... /s

I thought Carte Bleue no longer existed?

Which is why bank to bank transfers are so easy in the US.

That it should be possible for somebody with a reasonable understanding of car maintenance to actually fix or maintain their car instead of having a blob of proprietary nonsense only meant to lock you in and milk your wallet with mandatory dealer repairs and subscriptions.

> If you double following distance, you halve the throughput. If you halve following distance, you double your throughput.

That postulate breaks down as soon as you move away from a laminar traffic assumption and include distracted drivers, lane changes, and weather influences. Which is why the wave theory model is important to understand the propagation of perturbations and their effect on maximum throughput.

> The throughput of a (full, i.e. rush-hour) road has nothing to do with speeds of people driving, and everything to do with following distance.

And yet, in the limit case of a bumper-to-bumper situation (or, in fluid dynamics parlance, an incompressible flow), the variable determining the change in mass flow-rate is the velocity of the medium. Mimetically, we could also look at ants. To ease congestion in a bumper-to-bumper situation, they accelerate.

YES to all! You're so close. Drivers do not accelerate in bumper-to-bumper the way ants do. They maintain a 2sec (or whatever they are trained) following time instead. Which therefore dictates velocity (car lengths per following time). Thus the limiter on flow-rate is actually following time!

The plot is trying to illustrate the solution to an equation that is quite similar to Burger's equation, with a strong dependency on space and time. That's not easy to do in a single, static image.

When the characteristics meet (when the lines overlap), you get a shock wave. Or, in the current context, a traffic collision.

Ah, crickets! Just got the two nouns in the wrong order..

No. East Germany did not start existing with the Berlin Wall. The system was in place well before that, and so was the Stasi.

It spanned more than 40 years, and was absolutely multi-generational.

In hindsight East Germany took a lot of inspiration from Nazi Germany.