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It's a problem that seems really simple until you dig into it. Traffic usually changes, and that's hard to predict. In broad strokes it's a "simple problem" but
by InclinedPlane 9y ago
It's a problem that seems really simple until you dig into it. Traffic usually changes, and that's hard to predict. In broad strokes it's a "simple problem" but that's true of so many things (from bridges to self-driving cars). The complexity is in handling all the subtleties and edge cases and tuning everything so that the results actually are accurate.
- thanatropism 9y agoThere's a lot of traffic engineering theory based on viscous fluid approximation though. They'd be idiots not to leverage that.