Rozaŭtuno to [email protected]English • 11 months agoJust one more rule brolemmy.caimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1471arrow-down112cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@Donkterlink44•11 months agoIt’s a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.
minus-square@MotoAshlink29•edit-211 months agoand 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•edit-211 months agoThe Braess Paradox, or why adding more roads increases traffic congestion and results in longer travel times.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•11 months agoThat was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math
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