• sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    35·
    4 months ago

    So many people just can’t understand this. In dense city streets your journey times are usually decided by how long you spend waiting in queues and barely affected at all by your top speed. Which is why you can get around a city by bike faster than by car, even though few transportation riders cruise at much more than ~16mph/25kph on the flat.

    I used to think that people just hadn’t thought this through and realized it, but I’ve had a few online discussions where it’s clear some people are just flat out incapable of understanding that when there’s congestion, speeding to a traffic queue most often just means a longer wait in the queue, not a shorter journey time.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Every major US city I have ever been in is full of dumb idiot assholes with cars that cost twice what I have ever managed to make in a year, racing from stop light to stop light as fast as possible, braking at the last minute.

      There are days I have wished I could get away with making an Ocean’s 11 style EMP, purely to disable every car in a 2 mile radius.

    • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

      George Carlin said it, but this is a great example of it in practice.