That's a whole can of bogus science you opened there. The Wikipedia example is particularly funny, since it looks at a case where a new road is suddenly added a

That's a whole can of bogus science you opened there. The Wikipedia example is particularly funny, since it looks at a case where a new road is suddenly added and all drivers currently on the road switch to it momentarily because at one single moment in time it looks beneficial (but isn't). In reality, people don't change their routes based on new roads added during their trips and even if they did, they'd quickly learn a new overall more efficient route instead of what this bogus example suggests.