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"All drivers need to be on the same navigation system. Cars can only be efficiently rerouted...." Um.. Right, should be easy

• perl4ever 5y ago
  1. urban streets are too narrow, so ban parking 2. urban streets are too wide, give electric cars their own lanes. 3. what about the bike lanes??? 4. Profit! Even if this is a good plan, it sounds like social engineering and not math.
  • sitkack 5y ago
    tl;dr they are saying global optimization works, but all the actors need to get a globally optimal plan. Retaining choice for menial task (driving from a-b) wasting millions of person years on driving locally optimal but globally optimal (you pick the horizon). This statement is true for much of human condition. False choice wastes our attention from other areas that should get more focus.
    • perl4ever 5y ago
      Mike Rowe suggested everybody only making right turns to reduce the risk of driving. It was a rhetorical example of the sort of tradeoff we choose not to make, putting other things above total safety. But I like it. It might increase distance and time traveled slightly, but it should decrease both risk and stress. It seems like an almost achievable plan, if the government ordered Google Maps and whatever Apple's thing is called, to only produce right turn routes.