"No, this isn't true. Lanes actually do help, and it's crucial I drive my Dodge Ram alone to work every day" - π€‘
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I need 6 lanes so that I can drive as fast as I want and pass EVERYONE! Especially those people who are already passing everyone else, those slow bastards!
Going 90 in a 70 saves you 23% of the drive time, or a whopping 14 minutes per hour of initial drive time! That's definitely worth the speeding tickets and reckless driving charges!!
Don't know who this is or why I should care or why I should care about the edits
The original is cats eaten by coyote iirc and the edit is for c/fuckcars
I found the tweet! Even with your explanation I was baffled
Here's the text for anyone who doesn't want to visit the rotting husk of twitter:
My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like heβs just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.
It's a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.
and it's also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it's the basis of a few fallacies.
The Braess Paradox, or why adding more roads increases traffic congestion and results in longer travel times.
That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math
wheres the sandwich