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In that case a 10x-engineer would do a quick calculation and notice that adding and enforcing yet another exception to the law is much more expensive than opera
by germanier 10y ago
In that case a 10x-engineer would do a quick calculation and notice that adding and enforcing yet another exception to the law is much more expensive than operating a single traffic light. Note that laws are enforced by humans rather than idling CPUs, so every single rule adds real workload.
- douche 10y agoThat's an incredibly German perspective. Somehow in other parts of the world, practicality is allowed to take precedence over rigid adherence to authority, and it seems to work out fine. Reminds me of catching hell from random old German ladies in Berlin when I crossed a sleepy residential street, without a car on the road in sight for miles, without waiting for the crosswalk light to go green. Or gasp crossing a street without using a crosswalk!
- taneq 10y agoOr would realise that changing the wording slightly (not adding an exception, just updating the wording of one clause) to allow using a sign in place of a non-changing light would be a small enough change to get instantly rubber-stamped (so low administrative implementation cost), and would be trivial to enact because we already know that there's only one place where it applies.