The Simple Solution to Traffic

Imagine being late to a job interview because a cat crossed a road six hours ago

teacher: why are you late me: a chicken crossed the road 4 hours ago

it is hilarious how close this video gets to realizing that cars are the problem without realizing that cars are the problem

4:05 I'm not sure how a pedestrian would cross that.

Teach this in schools, now.

LESSON LEARNED: JUST HIT THE CHICKEN TO AVOID TRAFFIC

I know - to accelerate cars at the same time - we can just connect all of them into a chain - then it does not matter, which car is accelerating now - it accelerates the whole chain of cars. To improve stability and reduce unnecessary incidents by drivers - we can remove turning front wheels with rigid ones and put all the wheels on some kind of guided tracks, so they would follow the path. Then we can optimize by making individuals cars bigger to fit more people and decrease an amount of links in the chain. I have revolutionised traffic for you, you're welcome!

The solution to traffic is to give people viable alternives to driving. That means a well design public transport network and plenty of bicycle/pedastrian only areas. Exactly like the Netherlands does it.

“Be productive, buy a helicopter”- Jeremy Clarkson

Now I understand why humans started eating chickens.

I love how from 5 years ago the comments have gone from being about monkey drivers and self driving cars, to just give us trains. I'm glad people are catching on to the real solution to traffic.

Most times I enjoy CGP grey videos. This one, however, applies logical reasoning to a world that would ostensibly outlaw pedestrians for it to function.

When the simple solution is changing human behaviour, it's no longer a simple solution.

As somebody once wrote in the accident report to his insurace: "I am aware that there should always be a space of two car lengths between me and the next vehicle. But if you were to actually practice this, you would find that that space will quickly be occupied by two more cars!"

It's mindblowing how people will come up with all kind of ways to "fix traffic", always failing to realize that cars are the real problem of traffic

“A simple solution to traffic” is an ironic title seeing how in his best way to fill a plane video he says that a simple answer is usually wrong.

Me: keeping a gap in between the car in front. Car on the left: oh look a free spot. Me: :- |

The simplest solution to traffic is easily seen in cities like Tokyo. It's called trains

3:50 In CGP Grey's future I guess pedestrians don't exist. Also it takes the same amount of distance to come to a stop no matter how fast you are going. The main reason cars spread out after piling up at a traffic light is you need to allow more distance between you and the car in front of you the faster you are going because it takes more distance to stop in case there is an emergency. This doesn't change with robocars.

When I saw this 6 years ago I was like "yeah! great idea! XD" Then I lived in places with public transit, regional rail, and subways now I'm like "NO, BAD IDEA :("