"No, this isn't true. Lanes actually do help, and it's crucial I drive my Dodge Ram alone to work every day" - 🤡
I need 6 lanes so that I can drive as fast as I want and pass EVERYONE! Especially those people who are already passing everyone else, those slow bastards!
Going 90 in a 70 saves you 23% of the drive time, or a whopping 14 minutes per hour of initial drive time! That's definitely worth the speeding tickets and reckless driving charges!!
Here's the text for anyone who doesn't want to visit the rotting husk of twitter:
My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.
It's a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.
and it's also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it's the basis of a few fallacies.
The Braess Paradox, or why adding more roads increases traffic congestion and results in longer travel times.
That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math
"No, this isn't true. Lanes actually do help, and it's crucial I drive my Dodge Ram alone to work every day" - 🤡
I need 6 lanes so that I can drive as fast as I want and pass EVERYONE! Especially those people who are already passing everyone else, those slow bastards!
Going 90 in a 70 saves you 23% of the drive time, or a whopping 14 minutes per hour of initial drive time! That's definitely worth the speeding tickets and reckless driving charges!!
That was a hilarious satire video by NJB
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satire video by NJB
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Don't know who this is or why I should care or why I should care about the edits
The original is cats eaten by coyote iirc and the edit is for c/fuckcars
I found the tweet! Even with your explanation I was baffled
Here's the text for anyone who doesn't want to visit the rotting husk of twitter:
It's a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.
and it's also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it's the basis of a few fallacies.
The Braess Paradox, or why adding more roads increases traffic congestion and results in longer travel times.
That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math
wheres the sandwich