Most traffic jams actually act as a kind of compression wave moving backwards through traffic. Something as small as a squirrel running across the road can cascade into an hour-long jam.

One person brakes, then the person behind them, then the person behind them, but each time they are getting closer to each other (nobody stays equidistant from the car in front of them when braking). This causes a greater and greater slowdown as more cars are compacted into a tighter space, which travels backwards in traffic like a wave. Often the person who caused it doesn’t even realize anything happened.

A lot of mapping software actually estimates a given traffic slowdown by treating traffic as a fluid with a wave moving backwards through it.

This is stunning!!

Dr. Prepper

!taneggs@lemmy.ca

I would so frame this and hang it in my living room

Someone citing actual facts on the internet?! Impossible!!

I mean I agree, but…was this written by ChatGPT? lol

I can definitely think of an unpleasant shit, so…yes?

Beautiful! I love the vibrancy and the fluid motion throughout the piece; I can’t stop looking at it!

LMAO

Thanks for not censoring the company name so I know who to avoid

Y’know for techbros, AI strategists are some of the most tech illiterate people I’ve ever met

The propaganda campaigns are very successful, just like the ones claiming we somehow have a corner on free speech.

As someone who grew up in a relatively isolated rural area in the midwest US, it’s incredible how much BS I’ve had to unlearn from international sources.

The Mysterious Benedict Society was my childhood. I swear I read the whole series like 8 times. Got me into mystery novels and I’ve loved them ever since.

Gotta check for shrinkflation

I wonder how much they paid their design team to use the surface blur tool on their logo lol

For your own sanity, don’t read r/MyBoyfriendIsAI on r*ddit - shit’s dystopian