• @Zachariah
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    6 months ago

    Can we please get a comparison pic of 32,000 cars on the autobahn?

    • @runjun
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      26 months ago

      Wouldn’t it be better to compare 32,000 people in vehicles? Doing really rough math, someone else who doesn’t suck at math should run through it lol. But hand jamming some numbers gives me a bit over 20 miles (32.5 Km) of flowing, 3 lane, 4 person cars to get to 32,000 people. It’s like 9 miles (14.5 Km) with bumper to bumper LA stopped traffic. 50 person buses, bumper to bumper is 1.8 miles (2.9 Km).

      • @grue
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        176 months ago

        Wouldn’t it be better to compare 32,000 people in vehicles? Doing really rough math, someone else who doesn’t suck at math should run through it lol.

        32000 people in cars ≈ 32000 cars

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        Okay, okay, so it’s not literally 1 person per car and is actually more like 1.2 in Germany (see fig. 3) – but it rounds down!

      • @Zachariah
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        36 months ago

        Yeah, probably. But way too many cars are single occupant at any given time.

        • @runjun
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          36 months ago

          1 person cars, flowing, would be 80.8 miles (130 Km).