Why Is It So Hard to Fix Traffic?
Fixing traffic seems easy—just add more roads, right? Turns out that this is a problem studied by physicists and psychologists alike, with no easy answers. Hosted by: Hank Green Head to...
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[♪INTRO] So you’re sitting at an intersection in rush hour traffic, waiting for that light to turn green. But when it does, you can’t move. There are stopped cars in your way still. Cars behind you start to honk, convinced that you are texting or sleeping or the incarnation of pure evil -- but you’re just as stuck as they are, and the cars in front of you... they can’t go anywhere, either. So you just sit there, exasperatedly watching the light turn from green to yellow, and then from yellow back to red. And you didn’t move a centimeter. Traffic jams can be incredibly frustrating. And if you’ve ever been stuck in traffic with someone else in the car, you’ve probably talked through all kinds of ways that roads could've been designed bett...
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[♪INTRO] So you’re sitting at an intersection in rush hour traffic, waiting for that light to turn green. But when it does, you can’t move. There are stopped cars in your way still. Cars behind you start to honk, convinced that you are texting or sleeping or the incarnation of pure evil -- but you’re just as stuck as they are, and the cars in front of you... they can’t go anywhere, either. So you just sit there, exasperatedly watching the light turn from green to yellow, and then from yellow back to red. And you didn’t move a centimeter. Traffic jams can be incredibly frustrating. And if you’ve ever been stuck in traffic with someone else in the car, you’ve probably talked through all kinds of ways that roads could've been designed bett...
