Why Don't Ants Get Stuck In Traffic?
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"Do they honk and yell bad ant word?" best line so cute
*n word
Well the only way ants can communicate is by chemicals that can be smelled or detected by ants so they would probably just fart at eachother.
"Hey Patrick how the *ant noises* are ya?!"
ants can also climb over each other.........cars can't
you clearly arent trying hard enough
and if an ant bumps into another ant, no big deal. but if a car bumps another car, they both stop, the cops come, everyone slows down to see what's going on, traffic gets worse, all that stopping and going makes some other car bump into another one and the cycle continues.
Dennis Davis yup giant ants are the future lol
also ants are way smaller than CARS....
Luis Almodovar not if you try hard enough
Okay. Just saying: do we really KNOW that the ants aren't cussing each other out in ant?
1st ant's POV: HEY ANT!! YA, YA YOU, ITS A GREEN LIGHT YOU RUDE ANT MOVEEE!! *HONKS* YOU LITTLE I'M JUST TRYING TO GET A CRUMB FROM THE NEARBY PICNICS *HEAD BONKS*
Other ants POV: THAT LITTLE ANT SERIOUSLY JUST TOUCHED ME? WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS, these stupid ants I swear ants sometimes smh smh i just ugh I'm just trying to get a droplet of water from spiderweb-bucks I heard they sell fly lattes, you know what? I'ma go slower.. I don't need to rush anyways.
They all siblings
@Aaron Pan yes, but ants in a colony all share a direct ancestor, their mother
@Aaron Pan Lemme Guess Cavemans?
@@chickenbokernot2598 So their mother Is their queen huh?
"awesome traffic system" the video you played literally showed like 5 ants bonk heads. And at 80 mph that wouldn't be a good thing.
While it seems unintentional and a mishap, they do exchange important information "bonking their heads" about their status, task, where they came from and if there's more work to be done there, etc. Ant traffic seems chaotic because it also organizes where the ants are going, and that takes communication.
The problem is that lanes for people/ants don't have to be perfect. If two people or ants bump into each other it's not as catastrophic as if two cars bump into each other.
Collective "Me First" does play a larger part in drawing than walking though. Even if there are those few who gather in a spot and refuse to move when others come by, in general people walking will give way to others with a simple "excuse me" whereas drivers will cut eachother off, slam on the breaks to spite the person behind them and bogard lanes to stay in the front. If more people would just go, "hey, I'm in the way," things might go smoother.
I think we move out of the way when we have a real person in front of us, when we're surrounded by metal cars we don't actually see other human beings and somehow we become self centered.
not the underlying problem
People do that because the car disconnects them from the person in it. On Bicycle trails traffic is handled much more like ants. Both Cyclist and Motorcyclist treat each other with much more respect then just motorists.
Ah, the classic "Mr. Walker vs Mr. Wheeler."
My conspiracy
1.The world is bigger for them
2. Ants are savage and give 0 fucks so they just walk over each other
Ants are hardcore communists.
p
RubberDuck who are you conspiring with?
RubberDuck lol
21 Dog lol
I feel like the focus is entirely off in this video. The problem with cars is they can only turn by rolling, they have to follow fixed rules, they can't squeeze by one another, and they have limited space. All these things are opposite for walking.
You've never been in foot traffic in the city? Lol
6 6 Your point is the only one here that doesn’t make sense. The argument the video was making made sense and was very clear! But, as others have said before me, it is a concept that exists solely and theory and cannot logistically be applied with humans and cars. Do you not see how many times one of the ants walks over another? Stop throwing insults and being angry for a second and instead try to listen to others’ arguments around you.
@@davidperrier6149 People walking cause lots of traffic jams. Like the video said, crowds of people are made up of individuals all looking out for their own self-interest. Sure they form some natural lanes like ants which is interesting, but they don't let each other through the way ants do so you still get big blockages.
Yeah exactly. If you're walking and you're in a large crowd (think SFO/LA/NYC/Tokyo street crossings), unless a physical obstruction blocks the exits, you will ALWAYS have some ability to move in a large crowd. If you're at a music festival, you can even exit the crowd while the songs are playing and everyone is dancing simply because you can change your geometry and optimize your path. A car can only really go forwards and backwards at an angle and can't change its geometry and must also obey road laws--it cannot go in the middle of a forward and backward coming lane for example because of safety concerns. What applies to ants might apply to crowds, but not to linear, fast-moving cars.
@6 6 your ego is too high, try to see things from their point of view instead of getting caught up in your own
we could literally improve human traffic issues by using (and funding) public transport!!!
or designing walkable communities
And why can't public transport users fund the public transport? Why should one need to pay for other's commute?
@@biplabkumarghosh6300 bhai vo bol raha ha ki zayada se zayada log public trans. use kare
@@oksowhat Oh, okay. I thought he meant government should allocate more money towards public transport
@@biplabkumarghosh6300 it would indirectly mean that govt will allocate more money to public trans. lol
*if only humans were as coordinated as ants*
InfernoLegend980 Take plenty of antipsychotics so your individuality can be as absent as an ant's, then you can coordinate.
InfernoLegend980 I wish I was born an ant
If you go in India the traffic is a bit the same, it looks chaotic but it works
We are most of the time, if we experience the other as human. See also: walkways
it would be boring
You know, everyone racing to be first is exactly what causes traffic to begin with…
True.
you know, the other two youtube videos on traffic were not good compared to this because they tried to take a scientific approach to the problem when it is clearly a social one.
There were more than two videos about traffic recently, and Grey wasn't even the first.
oh I know. just at the end of this video he mentioned two videos by a couple of his friend you tubers. that's why I said two.
CGP GRAY MADE THE VIDEO XD
"When leaf cutter ants get stuck on a twig behind a heavily-loaded slowpoke ... they simply slow down and march behind the ant returning with the goods." That's literally the definition of traffic.
I read your comment as soon as he said it
(This reply is worthless)
No, in traffic, people will try to pass you by changing lanes and if not, they will stick too close to your car. That means the lane changing will increase traffic and being too close prevents us from having room to match our speed. We have to slow down so that we all roll at the same speed, even though it's not YOUR favorite speed.
@@jean-christophearsenault2104 That's an example of toxic traffic, but both are still examples of traffic...
Well, of course Ants have traffic, but they don't get stuck in it. Reading the title of the video might help.
This video made me angry ! Lol
I never knew we waste that much time in traffic !! 😑😒
IKR
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Liu Dora nope
@@captainlevi4464 I guess I broke my promise, i'm really sorry. :c
Liu Dora 😂
Ants don't have egos :)
You apparently did not watch HunterxHunter.
I don't know what you're talking about, ants love ego waffles!
Ants don’t have cars.
Ants don't speed, everybody is going at the same speed so driving becomes perpetual merging in and out.
On top of that their only concern is the overall success of the colony.
Ants crawl on top of each other and have a vastly large space than say, a New Yorker. So the answer is monster trucks in New York. Just drive over each other. 👍🏻
ALL CARS UK OFFICIAL If everyone will drive monster truck how will they get past each other :P
having a bigger monstertruck?
Shaun Van de velde giant mechs/jaegers clearly
they been doing that in london all that happens is terrorism alerts an road blocks on the sidewalks lol
Or flying cars
There's so much more at play here, with dynamics you hardly touched upon. 1) All ants are about the same size. But the human is a fraction of the size of his vehicle, so his footprint on a highway is 10x what it should be. 2) Ants don't travel very fast. Humans; however, can race at speeds 5x faster than they can run which is probably not a safe idea. 3) Ants have an armor exoskeleton to protect them if they screw up and run into other things. Humans, travel in very fragile shells by comparison which can't withstand anything but the slowest of collisions without sustaining damage. 4) Ants don't have dozens of traffic laws to obey; meaning, they can climb right over others in their path or go off-road whenever they see fit. Humans don't have any of these options, being heavily restricting to a flat surface that must be mostly paved to be navigable.
Short answer : *because they have the same speed and Sam leg movement unlike drivers that gets distracted easily*
Everyone keeps saying "you can't compare ants and vehicle traffic" but I'm like "no, scientists actually do this and have learned some very interesting things about human traffic because of it" Here's some fun reading: jeb.biologists.org/content/213/14/2357.long
I've also seen ants climb over eachother when they can't get around. How do I simulate this in a car?
While agree that comparisons can and are being made, I think the fact that cars are not part of our bodies plays a big role in the available movements we can make. With large groups of people, we can organize ourselves as you said, and if someone is in front of us, we just move to the side. Now try doing the same with a car. How long does it take? And how many other cars have you just affected while trying to avoid a collision yourself?
Exactly. Walking is better, and funny enough, we need cars because everyone has cars, and we've built cities to accommodate cars. There are actually two solutions to this problem: Less cars, or smarter cars.
Except ants don't have to deal with traffic-lights, intersections, roadworks etc. Nor are their 'roads' limited in width, if there's a jam they can get out of line and go around it.
Why don't they get stuck in traffic, they know how to merge, they don't have assholes that ride the brakes, they know how take an exit, they don't drive when they can no longer see, and they actually know where they are going....
Also they just crawl over each other.
In my lifetime, I wonder if I've spent more time in traffic or watching RUclips videos…
Stay curious!
I spent more time watching RUclips videos. I'd bet I spent more time watching youtube videos than sleeping xD
But wait - if Google is driving, then we're back in business.
do you even smash
probably traffic
What about watching youtube while in traffic? At least while you're not the driver ofc.
Me: lets slow down and give space to the merging lanes and make everything move faster
Everyone: *bad ant words*
It’s because they are walking. Ants aren’t cars, and ants aren’t in cars. They’re walking.
Pictured a ant driving its own car lol
Do you the speed of ants ?? It is 0.3km per hour... You may this is too slow but this is equal to running at a speed of 30miles per hour by a human... What's the average speed you drive a car???
@@saivarun656 ants are also way smaller and have less volume so if they were to hit anything they wouldnt get hurt because of the square cube law
@@saivarun656 seeing 2 hands hit at .3km per hour wouldnt hurt but 2 cars hitting at 30 miles per hour would be lethal
Just don't forget that sometimes the paths aren't always plane. They have to climb over trees, and rocks, pass through leaves and dirt, and vines..
"unless CGP Grey makes it first." Hahaha. I hope even if he does you guys'll release yours anyways. I think we're getting use to similar content being released at the same time.
yeah its been like quite some time since he made his traffic vid
Tyler, I would recommend checking out the CGP Grey2 channel to see the video he made to Jake Roper about the agonies of parallel creation (making the same topics as someone else at the same time). It addresses your comment in a thoughtful way that I can't pretend to emulate.
DegonTheMighty thanks, sounds interesting.
Tyler Matthew Harris CPG grey dis make it first
With the rate Grey puts out videos you've got a fair shake. Though I'd have to say his stick figure is rather dapper.
but grey already made a video talking about it right?
Yeah, Humans Need Not Apply. Great video.
Kyle Potts i was referring to his most recent video on traffic and self driving cars
Oh... he also did make one on that.
Grey has hired help now rather than doing it on his own. I'm sure his video output will be rise since he now delegates.
2:42 did anyone notice the plate saying “Okay to be smart”
Thats the point
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
"Bob move out!"
"Why?"
"Because you're holding up traffic!"
"George, this is the sugar jar. Start collecting already."
I think you missed something. Those ants are all working together because they are unified. Humans in unified groups also do this and work together to minimize problems by sacrificing personal advantage.
Now, if you put thousands of different ant colonies (who have no shared identity) next to each other and forced them to use the same traffic lanes, you'd see traffic jams... right before the ants all tried to kill each other, because ants are pretty direct about competition like that.
There's the solution! Now I only need to get my hands on a tank...
I guess it's one of the effects of inclusive fitness :p
Yeah, but you could argue that we're all part of the same unified group since we're all slaves to the same economy. More efficient economy brings more wealth for everyone (more or less, not going to go into the rabbit hole that is wealth inequality), as such, we do have a common goal, except our ego doesn't allow us to see that. We're all told that we're the special ones, that I deserve this or that, that I need this, I, I, I... We only look at ourselves instead of looking at the larger picture of interlinked cogs in a system much bigger than the sum of its parts...
Thats why i prefer mindless automatons to do my bidding...they dont need to grasp the scope of my decisions, they only need to be obedient.
Good point, but in order to achieve a greater efficiency in all the different parts of the economy, we need to stop being mindless, egoistical and disobedient automatons and start understanding the sea that we're all floating in together. After all, aren't we just as much of automatons as ants? Just with more complex algorithms and the egoistical notion of free will. Which depending on your philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics is completely screwed as a concept.
This is a nice summary of what Tom Vanderbilt tells on his book "Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)"
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Main problem with traffic is how many people are actually short sighted and dont actually know the size of their cars in the lane, and so there's greater distances between the cars. Put everyone on a motorbike, (or on foot) and you see how people interweave between one another better and keep the flow moving much faster. ants move at a walking pace and hitting one another doesn't hurt. Cars can kill with speed, thats a huge difference.
It’s not speed, it’s the sudden stop
HeroAN a sudden start is just as dangerous.
don't forget the sudden turn too
When pedestrians collide big deal i nudged him i say sorry thags it
When cars collide at best i have to pay like 100 bucks to fix the bent on the hull at worst someone dies.
Also cars can’t climb on top of one another like ants can
People can't do the zipper merge because half of them are too scared or overly cautious to merge. They'll stop instead of keeping the traffic flowing.
People can, just not Americans. In many countries it is the norm. I don't think it is people being scared, I think it is a combination of ignorance, different interpretations of signage, and reckless drivers. Even in incredibly low traffic areas that I've driven through in the US, many people REFUSE to let other cars in front of them, which makes merges so much messier than they need to be.
But I do think driving anxiety might have something to do with it, at least partially. For me, based on my experience with drivers I have ridden with and other cars around me, I get to anxious that I won't be allowed to merge if I don't get in the lane I need to be in miles before necessary. This may be just my own personal anxiety, or it might be caused by the places I've lived, but I still think that isn't the main problem.
I just discoverd this channel and you just earned a sub
2:34 this is why no one uses minecarts in minecraft.
Ants don't have traffic lights or other ants crossing randomly
or avoidable accidents which all the other ants have to slow down to gawk at.
They also don't have to deal with grasshoppers on their damn motorcycles.
and they dont have an engine failure in middle of the street
3:27 -- *You are absolutely right! If there's congestion, you should wait until your lane ends to merge!* You actually end up doing a disservice to traffic when you merge early. It is better to have one distinct merge point than multiple ones. It means there will be just one point (rather than multiple points) forcing drivers to brake. It also makes the merging more predictable; drivers will be less prone to unnecessary braking before the merge point. Unfortunately, not many drivers are aware of this, and road signs/markings only encourage drivers to merge early. That all said, if you're in free flow conditions, you are usually better off merging relatively early. Either way, the goal is not to force drivers to brake any harder than necessary, if at all.
I was shocked when I learned that ants, infact, dont drive cars
I can clearly see ants walking a bit to the side around the slower ants and then rejoining the main line when they get a bit further forward going from 3 wide to 9 wide in one shot
I really love this video because this is something I've been saying for years. Self-driving cars all on one collective network really is the one true traffic solution.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
ASSUMING CONTROL
It will never be that simple though because there will always be people who want to create cars that don't cooperate, maybe even to intentionally kill people.
They won't last in the system.
@Sir Reginald Dunning-Kruger effect is strong with this one
I'm glad that the people in these comments aren't scientists.
I'm not glad, "scientists" need to be more freethinking, most just follow the money.
Lol
Otto Pike I'm a scientist from Bakersfield.
it's okay to be not-that-smart
Actually, *tries to prove you wrong with complex words*
This guy is the future of RUclips
What a stupid comparison. We don't get into traffic jams when we're walking either, and walking traffic moves far faster than car traffic. But of course our bodies are squishy, don't mind a bump or two, touching another pedestrian doesn't damage him, and we can maneuver our bodies with far more precision and freedom of movement than cars. Also, if two ants or pedestrians collide nobody dies, can't say the same for cars, so we need more precautions, and that means slower more structured traffic.
Actually touching each other when walking almost never happens unless it is extremely crowded. People instinctively try to avoid being touched by others.
Cars need squishy exteriors
What about in traffic light
@@manojkc2509 High traffic, high crowds and just a little disaster can cause issues, even on foot, like people falling and getting trampled in a panic.
people so get in traffic when walking. ever been in a major city, or school,
Ants don't have to deal with traffic-lights, intersections, roadworks, etc. Oh, and they aren't limited to roads, so if one ant slows down, others can get out of line and go around it.
and they arent afraid to crash
Because they can't really crash... they walk over each other for god's sake... You try doing that with cars
Me: Why don't ants get---
Ive gotta see this...
damn, I never thought about that once in my life and then there's this guy making a whole video about it, making me question my existence.
When I traveled to Busan South Korea I paid particular attention to the traffic. Busan has almost twice the population of Houston crammed into an area half the size. Traffic jams were minimal. When a traffic light turns green, the whole line of cars moves together quickly & when the light turns red the whole line of cars stops. Did not witness one accident in the two weeks I was there. At each intersection, there is a 2 second interval when all lights are red. During that 2 seconds, intersections are FILLED with delivery scooters and bicycles moving as quickly as possible in every direction. It looks chaotic, but again, no accidents or mishaps. The back fender of the last scooter always clears the intersection the millisecond that the next light turns green and the entire line of cars behind that green light moves into the intersection without any hesitation. There's probably about a meter distance between the last scooter fender and the 1st car into the intersection. Koreans drive fast and without hesitation, but they also drive selflessly. It's like they have a hive mentality. They remind me of bees. No one steps out of line and everyone seems to consider the efficiency of the group, even though each person is focused and driven to increase their own efficiency.
because ants can't drive cars.
BOOM. next question
Loved it ❤️❤️! How i wish that you have Spanish subs to share this to my class !
If anyone would like to contribute Spanish subtitles (or any other language), click here! ruclips.net/user/timedtext_video?v=kkiuw0HbRq4&ref=share
Did 3:55 in spanish, will try to get the rest later
just sent Portuguese subtitles for this video.
damn, i didn't even mean to do it, i just wanted to see how that worked.
took me almost an hour to do the entire video.
+Julian Alberto Arce Sánchez Recién complete la que creo que era tu traducción y la mandé a revisar (no estoy seguro como funciona eso). Estaba muy buena tu versión, pero para la próxima tené cuidado con "billon" y "trillon" que no son lo mismo en español que en ingles! Un saludo
You look very Asian
So how would that be implemented in actual roads? Determine what cars are going home or are carrying boxes and let them drive in the middle?
WHY, ants have legs, cars don't.
Ants can climb over each other when jammed.
next in the distant future car would have legs
@@helldronez🎵 they've got legs...and they know how to use them...🎶
I guess the fact their bodies don't weigh 1000-2000 kg helps a little
Yeah except when you factor in most cars have 150-300 horsepower and can travel up to 90 mph, I think that cancels out the weight.
But the thing is not the ability to accelerate, rather the one to break
I think the main point is that ants follow a set of rules of sorts that allow for no traffic.
Like what was said in the video, if we drive slower (so we have more time to react), this will reduce the 'brake chain', which reduces gridlock.
Basically if we get a new set of rules to be enforced (slower driving and like, 1.5 meter distance from the vehicle in front of you) we'd probably reduce traffic by a great amount.
What's that in real world measurement? Cough cough: ( Imperial units)
1.5 metre is something like 5 feet I think
This will make RUclips think I like ant videos even more
Ur videos are Awesome, THANKS :)
Answers a question I never knew I had
I get what's being said but the main problem to me is that while ants may be in the trillions, the world is ultimately much bigger for them than it is for us. There's more space for them AND yes, they are all on one same mission; members of each colony have the same destination, thus there are no huge amounts of left or right turns, or U-turns, etc, etc. Our streets and destinations are way more varied and complex. Ego plays a role, sure, but I don't see that as the cause of traffic.
Oddly satisfying or oddly unsatisfying
I like the little "unless CGP Grey makes it first"
Great traffic insight.
Absurd, unscientific, ant analogy.
"Bad ant words"
-Joe 2016
because they don't drive cars :V
a dumb assumption
because they are socialists
Well they obviously do, are you blind or wut..
Not dumb at all! The whole point in this video was that ants don't get stuck in traffic. If you take the rules by which ants travel and applied them to humans in cars, you'd still have traffic congestion. Because of key features of *cars*, not the way we drive them. Namely, the speed of cars is very high, as is the cost of collisions. This is not true for ants crawling up and down a log. The analogy is in this video is, and Bluespheal has correctly pointed out this fact!
Actually, most traffic jams happen in places and the speed is very low. Well, that's sort of the definition of traffic jams. The speed is irrelevant. It happens in stores with shoppers and so on.
The whole "self-driving cars" bit at the end is actually really good. Let the car drive and deal with traffic while you could read, draw, play games on your phone, do work, etc. Not dealing with traffic cuz the car deals with traffic for you. Self-driving cars are safer than manual ones.
We can't even get optical sensors to reliably dispense hand soap; and they want us to trust driverless cars? Sorry, but I'll be a late adopter on that one when there's a much greater track record.
There's lot's of self-driving services already there, they're known as trains, busses, ships and airplanes. Granted the ammount of space is kinda limited, but out of rush hour there's loads of space. If everyone has a seat there's already enough space for everyone to read, draw, do stuff on the phone, or whatever.
Peeble Kitty Mate you got a community of car lovers and bike lovers to deal with if you want self driving cars
A transport there you can just sit while all the dealing with traffic done by someone else? Oh man, if only people could make something like that \s
Sometimes you get into traffic even when you walk, it is often because someone is walking slowly in the front because they are chatting with their friends or old people.
to be fair CGP it's a bot. so he is more efficient at doing videos.
rudyossanchez he is?
What did you think CGP stood for? Computational Generation Program.
Grey is the color of his particular model.
So what does this bot do exactly?
TheKorzcola Y'know.... bot things.
I'll just take your word for it then
"Bad Ant Words" xd
Imagine if ants could talk...
We could learn a lot from them.
"Long live the Queen!"
I don't know about the rest of the world, but ants in California get stuck in traffic all the time. I've seen multiple ant pile-ups at various ant intersections. Even tiny ant ambulances racing to the scenes of the ant carnage!
Ants dont have traffic laws? People in cars all have different destinations? Ants walk around eachother? Not hard.
Afraid to Realize Yes, I'd like to see how many ants are going to the supermarket or stadium, and not just to and from the sugar.
Driving would be really easy if we just had one long road with no junctions. One dwelling, one office. Simples.
Communication, effort. This is exactly what I thought! We can’t just drive on the sidewalk to avoid people aka the third lane. 😂
Communication, effort. Taking a turn wont change any of this though.
why is everything a question?
@@AndrooUK Thats ridiculous, I'm a ant and I'm driving in a car with a human to the supermarket right now. Uh oh, I think it sees m-
Ants are communists. With out pay
legoguyminer as opposed to communists with pay?
Communist slaves? But they don't care?
Ants are genetically more related to their brothers and sisters, than you or I are to our own children. It is for this and no other reason, that ants live in a group with a single fertile female. It is more productive than human reproduction. The more you know.
So...to keep it short... communists!
Pay is irrelevant when you don't need stupid physical objects like electronics or jewelry.
As seen early in the video, ant's can "crash" into each other, turn 180° multiple times in a second, and walk over each other. If car could do that, there would be no traffic :D
That's something to think about: Why we are not in traffic when walking but when driving we are? I got it, the brain is overtaken by machine.
Ego and uneducated driver are the worst😧 🏍🏍🏍
also when you have slow drivers in the fast lane or when people wanna block you because they chose to drive a vehicle that can't maneuver well 🏍.. goes back to ego
traffic is artificial. Once the light turn green don't take 300ft to go 40 mph(catching every light). Drive like you got a purpose in life, put the phone down, drop the ego and be aware of you surroundings 🏍
traffic is artificial. Once the light turn green don't take 300ft to go 40 mph(catching every light). Drive like you got a purpose in life, put the phone down, drop the ego and be a
ware of you surroundings 🏍
Lol. Education has nothing to do with it.
Ego, perhaps, or dominance.
Andrew Williams desire to be/seem dominant is directly driven by one's ego:
MY identity, MY house, MY family, MY interests, MY car, MY lane.
Conversely, empathy can put a brake on one's ego.
10/10 point for the cpggrey part
Should do an updated on this one so I can share more recent video when I see my friends saying they never let people in front of them
Reads comments, sees egos in action. Thought is jammed.
I've rember a quote from the titanic Moive "I'm just following were the rats are going" so can you make a video on
Can you follow a rat on a sinking ship
That be great thx love this vid enjoyed it bye
to solve traffic take out the part that's causing it - the human part.
Self driving cars for the win!
Most jams are caused by cars slowing down unexpectedly and more than they need to. If the car in front begins to break, the car behind must break harder, because it cannot tell if the car in front is going to stop or just accelerate away again. The third car has to break even harder, making the car in position four break harder still.
Guess how a self driving car will react to the car in front suddenly slowing down? Exactly the same way, because it cannot risk running into it. even if the first car is self-driving, the car behind cannot trust that it will stop in the came distance, because of diferences in tires etc. it *will* brake with a safetly margin. The car behind must do the same, but with les space to do it... there's your jam.
The daily jams at regular locations are a capacity problem, not a driver problem. If ten cars can pass per minute, then ten cars can pass per minute, regardless of the skill of the driver.
And self driving cars are a cool idea but completely impractical for anything other than straight-line highway driving.
In case you missed it; Tesla's fancy pancy driver assist has already caused one death, and that's just an assistent, not even a full self driving vehicle...
vinny142 it's not just self driving cars, traffic problems could also be solved by proper mass transportation infrastructure like railways like what they have in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Despite being one of the most densely populated areas in the world, Hong Kong, Singapore and most cities in Japan got their traffic problem sorted out by using efficient mass transit systems.
I suppose implementing this in other countries is more difficult because driving a car is more of a status symbol rather than a means of transportation. Also, the Automotive industry have more lobbyists and financial incentive to use fuel inefficient cars in western countries
Why would a hacker even be involved?
Self-Driving cars don't need to be connected to a network.
They just need the software and hardware to detect cars around them and react accordingly, literally no need for a network. The only reason you would be connected to the network is if you somehow install wi-fi into the vehicle, which brings up the question of why would you need to do that when you have a bloody phone and your vehicle is self-driving. At best the only network needed is GPS, and you don't need the net for that. I suppose if you want a map, but that could probably come installed or installed yourself (and if it gets a virus it's literally only you to blame).
The only way this could even happen is if it PHYSICALLY hacked, and this is much more difficult because it's effectively breaking and entering.
I'm a bit sceptical to self driving cars, at least unless there is a driver ready to take over, because they can get technical errors. All advanced technology can, and in this case it could cause serious damage
zakosist There is always a driver ready to take over, and I think when a technical error arises, there probably is a safety net of sorts. Maybe automatically drive to the side of the road while sending a distress signal to all nearby vehicles to avoid the car?
5:37 that one ant is just staying there helping other ants climb faster :O
No ant ever had a fatal collision walking inyo another ant
YOU ARE NOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC, YOU ARE TRAFFIC.
did anyone think that the whole self driving car thing only works if everyone has one
Not necessarily, eventually all cars would probably be installed with some sort of thing that 'beeps' to self-driving cars that they are there so the self-driving cars can properly react.
what about bikes scooters and motorcycles
Rose Knight my big concern is getting hacked just imagine some guy being able to murder you remotely by locking your doors and forcing you to crash
That, and the entire system would be ruined if someone crosses the street. Part of the reason that we have intersections is for the pedestrians. If we had this self driving car system, then the pedestrians would not be able to cross without everyone stopping. Also, jaywalkers would probably get ran over, especially if the cars are going fast.
SophersSuper, no the self driving car would slam on the brakes while the people in it don't expect it.
I understand late merging, but it's difficult to explain to others. "why doesn't everyone just get into the same lane when they see the road work sign"
The key is constant communication. When every car is tied up to one network, you wouldn't have to bother about traffic.
or you can just get rid of cars all together
Um
Because ants don't _drive?_
Ants dont have traffics because they dont have Buildings that Surround their ways
Ants dont have traffics because they dont have Buildings that Surround their ways
I see ants in my house all the time, so where are their cars?
Pink
Because they don't move around in uselessely large and heavy metal boxes
i was in a traffic jam in Tuscon AZ and we are in a mile long road for 7 hours 7 HOURS!!!!
Ants, so marvellous creatures. 😀😄😁
3:19 in Germany you have to do it like this. Why? He explains it at 3:30.
What is with all the traffic videos in the same 2 months or so?
Soo true...since i got an SUV heavily loaded, people seem to not get in my way as much!
1.1k people were watching this on their cell phone while behind the wheel in a traffic jam.
Hive mind obviously
"we hate waiting in lines" you sir have not met an Englishman
well he did say they spend the most time in traffic. maybe it`s for a reason.
We do hate it, we just don't complain about it as much.
Asians...
I never knew this a question that was bothering me until now
It never bothered me because ants aren't like cars.
4:30. i figured this out a long time ago by just picking a car in the other lane and keeping track of where it is in relation to me and if i notice it move further overtime on average then i move over otherwise a stay put
Maybe it's because ants can walk around the jam instead of being linearly constricted.
Why anyone would even compare an ant trail to a traffic jam is beyond me, the two are so heterogeneous; it's akin to likening a vacuum cleaner to an aardvark.
I know you have to make content, and IMHO you're good at it, the presentation is superb and the information is there, but please focus on genuinely interesting, thought provoking topics.
Alas, if you're set on producing these kinds of videos, here's a few ideas,
1) Why don't bees need an air traffic control tower with a radar system?
2) Why don't horses get stuck at shallow streams?
3) Why don't red crayons taste like strawberries?
absolutely, this was waste of time and production value
utkua not for him. This ad got him money. That's why he did it.
car trarric and ant traffic arent at all comparable, the reason ants dont have traffic jams is because they arent driving cars and dont have the limitations that come with that. A more comparable situation would be ants VS people just walking around in a mall or some other busy place, and you dont typically see jams in that do you?
An ant honking is the 2nd scariest thing to hear in the woods
That is the perfect prove of the superiority of legs on unpaved terrain over wheels on roads, esp. with a engine's power 400x its weight.
Ya if everyone was EXACTLY the same then ya, life would be simple. But it would also be BORING.
ANTS CAN'T DRIVE WTF
3:25 gonna have to remember that for when i get pulled over for a reckless merge
if only i saw this video before my recent speeding ticket.. i would of just stayed where i was instead of trying to "get ahead". lesson learned!!! (the hard way)