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The point of the article is that you can generate this behavior in an ideal system without taking into account differences in drivers. Put simply, small stocha
by URSpider94 11y ago
The point of the article is that you can generate this behavior in an ideal system without taking into account differences in drivers.
Put simply, small stochastic differences in arrival rates of passengers or initial speed of buses will amplify themselves. If you take three buses and shift the center one in time, you'll end up with one longer gap and one shorter one. The bus with the longer gap will tend to find more people waiting at each stop, while the bus with the shorter gap will find fewer people and move faster. Ultimately, the faster bus will catch the one in front of it and follow it, with zero people getting on at each stop. There will then be a -huge- gap, followed by a very slow bus that has to pick up a ton of people at each stop.
- samstave 11y agoWhich pretty much maps to my comment.
- aczrWcJGuRhB 11y agoI haven't read the article, but ... it's an interactive and intuitive explanation of why this happens, and it has nothing to do with anything you mentioned. "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
- Karunamon 11y agoDid you really just create a throwaway account to slag on someone else's comment? Please don't do that :/
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoNo, it doesn't. The article says that bunching will happen even with perfect robot drivers. Your comment says that bunching happens because drivers are lazy. (Also, the article is a tiny flash game and like five sentences of explanation. This isn't tl;dr territory.)
- samstave 11y agoMy comment says that this was my subjective experience. People seem to have missed that. Clearly that means I am incorrect, but it was just what I observed and felt was happening around my commute. The paper does nothing to dispute the laziness of the drivers :-)