The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam
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Me: “Sorry, I’m gonna be a little late for work.”
Boss: “how late?”
Me: “I’d say about 12 days”
Not Bond Hassen
*A LITTLE LATE*
@@kaicosplays1374 at least its paid
Derpy Purple Is that a reference to the US and its almost non existent sick or out pay
If so, *_ouch_*
C. G.
No.
I don’t know anything about this because I live in the UK. 👉👈
Sorry if I offended anyone
Oh. Man
GF: "where the hell were you!? You missed our entire summer vacation!!"
me: "I was stuck in traffic."
You guys have girlfriends?
You guys are getting to go on vacation?
Viet Ngo yeah kids in America and Canada, among other places get 3 months off of school in the summer and 2 weeks in December
Imagine having a girlfriend
Oh really, traffic? What’s her name?
*Rest of world: "rush hour"*
*Beijing: "rush week"*
Rush fortnight*
......
@@dem0ny653 shut
@@omnomnom5359 Get the fuck out of here kid.
Eddy Guo what u so mad ur gf dumped u I wouldn’t be surpised ya all
Los Angeles: We have the worst rush hour traffic ever.
Beijing: *HOLD MY BEER.*
Mr. Meloetta *Los Angeles
Mr. Meloetta good try.
I thought meloetta was female or none gender in game?
It's L *O* S Angeles. I live in Los Angeles and I'm triggered by the misspelling.
Mr. Meloetta don’t forget Los Vegas!
Feel bad for the 1 truck driver who forgot his phone and wallet.
Rip
Nothing was happening there, he could have just walked home and got it before going back to his truck.
it was 2010 in rural china, so I don't think their flip phones would've helped much anyway lol
@@Someone-zn4dh your profile pic fits that comment perfectly
Danyal A. "the poor" wouldnt have let anyone starve..
Imagine you're going on vacation and you get stuck in THAT. The absolute second it clears up you have to turn around and go back...
That is why you take the high speed trains :-)
Mechanical Ninjineer we go to a vacation in a train or a plane every year never a car or bus
Knowing shit like that could happen on vacation might just save me a few bucks on car rentals. Thanks dawg!
Yeah better of getting out and walking
Can i hit 1000 subscribers? You’d never last in Ireland. Unless you can drive, things get pretty difficult.
I can hardly believe someone made a video about a 2010 event without any footage from it, and we watched it.
You could always google to see if its true, which I did and it's real.
Thanks for for the heads up. I'mma head out before I waste my time
Not like there is much to see. Just a traffic jam but bigger
@@tolkienfan4815l
Yeah I was a little annoyed
I just realized... This explains my Cities: Skylines problems.
Damn I didn’t know you could have illegal, unlicensed mines in that game
How do you think coal plants are supplied in that game?
By legal, licensed mines
You should just make sure everyone in your city is too poor to own cars.
@Fmono • 39 years ago • edited mods my dude
I still can't fathom how they can keep the whole country in one time zone.
Saying that something happens at ___o'clock is just a label; there really isn't any difference if the label is divided into segments or not. Even in the US there are major differences in the time zones. I've lived in the more eastern part of the Eastern time zone (PA and NY) and also in the western part (West Michigan); the sunrise/sunset patterns were markedly different for the hour, but it affected nothing else.
Sure, but that's within reason. If California was on Eastern time, the sun would rise at 9 AM in the winter and set at 11 PM in the summer. There are cities North of the Arctic circle where that happens, but it would be disrupting to big cities. In China nearly everyone is in the East, which is how they can get away with it I guess.
QuantumBraced But there are big cities in the west, like Ürumpi, Kunming, Chengdu and Chongqing
MattTheGamerHongKong Ürumpi uses local time unofficially. As for Chengdu and Chongqing, Singapore also uses +8 timezone and they are on the similar longitude as Chengdu and Chongqing. I've been to Singapore before and they seem doing fine.
MonoPalisa If I'm not mistaken, Singapore uses GMT+7
I was stuck in the exact traffic jam in 2010 and that took me 8 hours to get off-road, driving reverse and detour a good 200 km to reach Beijing. Not that much luck for those truck drivers.
If that traffic jam happens a lot, someone should set up a gas and snacks store there.
Cheng Alex - omg 😯
I'm more interested about the driving reverse part!!! How did that go about
So, Won is the currency of Korea. China's currency is the Yuan.
I know that's what he said
well he just pronounced it the wrong way which made yuan sound a lot like won, but you're right there
Which one ?
and Japan has the Yen
Why did I think he meant Wuhan (AKA Coronavirus8
On the 12th day of traffic my true love gave to me.... 12 convoy trucks, 11 fender bends, 10 middle fingers, 9 broken lights, 8 flat tires, 7 pavers paving, 6 school zones, 5 miles an hour!, 4 four-way stops, 3 drivers texting, 2 closed lanes, and a toll both that only takes cash.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Underrated comment
why am I laughing my ass off at this 5 years later
@ramble21 Same reason I am, because I forgot all about this 😂
"Coal isn't a renewable energy resource like wind or Batman reboots."
Nova3482 *spiderman
wow, great joke! you're so original!
Or love.
efenty FNT did you even watch the video?
I put it in quotations for a reason
Nova3482 What he should have meant is that just putting a quote from the video in the comments is not original.
Reminds me of that Doctor Who episode where people were stuck in traffic for 20 years underground, and had no idea their civilization above ground had been wiped out.
This is exactly what I thought of.
Which episode was it ?
@@harshityadav0 I believe it was called "gridlock" or something similar.
@@celticlass8573 Thanks, got it🥰. It's s03e03.
This is exactly what I was thinking!
On the twelfth days of christmas the traffic jam gave to me : clearance
Dude how did i not think sbout that lol
China: I have the longest traffic jam
Suez Canal: *hold my jam*
Wuhan,China:Created the Coronavirus
@D_oory your talking about the 8 year long jam there
I literally just came from a video explaining that 8-year jam.
@@aliciagu RRL?
Well this aged well
Only the east of China is crammed. The west is literally either desert, or mountainous, or mountainous desert.
Or illegally occupied sovereign territory!
Connor Heddle-McGurk Yes Ur Very Right
Yeah. there you can do pretty much anything you want
Connor Heddle-McGurk RIP Tibet & East Turkestan
The south is also mainly mountainous, or let's say hilly. Only the middle and the north are quite flat.
God, I already get impatient in 10 minute traffic jams
10 mins doesn't even count as a traffic jam
Fiery Gaming As someone who doesn't live in a city, 30 second traffic jams trigger me.
haha well people there have many things to do. china is not like america as people can just sit anywhere and have fun because the emperor's trying to enforce "the land is everyone's" and so people don't have problem with those kinds of things, so they think it is ok to walk around a highway to meet friends. A lot of them who had a table in their car probably took it out (more common than you think!) and sat down to have some fun. My mom's chinese sister say she has some friends who got caught in the jam. i think it is very funny and interesting!
I once spent 11 hours in traffic on a 2.5 mile stretch of A20. Coastbound, just after exit for B2011. And I wasn't even going to the port. I just happen to live in Dover
Today I drove the long way home because traffic was so fucked up. I don't mean I took like 3 more minutes either. Normally it is an hour and a half to go the long way and 20-30 minutes (depends on the lights) the other way. Today however traffic was so fucked up it took me 15 minutes to about half a mile. So I noped out and took the long way, arriving home more than 30 minutes earlier than I would have had I gone the normal way. Traffic engineers need to get their heads out of their asses and solve the real problems instead of doing speed surveys on the same road for the 5th time in a month.
1:51 "I know this is North Korea, but it does look quite a bit like China" XD
?
@@slifer0081 It says that in the right corner.
@@ok-qo5rq wait how did u see that
@@kaleidoscopekaleidoscope9064
With my eyes
Imagine you being the driver and thought of taking a shortcut but the shortcut turned out to be the longestcut ever😂
After 12 days it’s just sad
the levels of wealth
poor: old subaru
china: toyota corolla
Pixel wrong channel
it's always toyota corolla.
Nicholas East wooahhh callmmmm down
Nicholas East yeah ur shit
*Levels of wealth in Europe*
Eastern Europe = Yugo
Central Europe = Toyota
Western Europe = BMW
Northern Europe = Tesla
0:42 Not even a minute into the video... and he mentions planes.
I think that’s a new record for him
Northwest Orient are dead
He likes plane I guess
You're thinking of Wendover Productions.
This is a different channel.
@@Yamezzzz the petspn who runs Wendover Productions also runs Half as Interesting
A Chinese novelist, Zheng Yuanjie, wrote a short fictional story back in the 1990s, about a bus in a devastating traffic jam has gone on for YEARS, in which food are transported into the buses and wastes out by volunteer, but people may not leave the bus because regulation says a bus may only open the door when it reaches a station.
Over the years, one passenger had died due to complications of old age. He was not allowed to be transported off the bus, so he had to be preserved there. New technologies were developed just to do that. People came to his funeral on the bus. The bus has become a big family where no one intended to be with another for more than 20 minutes.
In the story, eventually, after the state had built many, many more roads with a new mayor and everything, the traffic jam was resolved. The bus finally reached its destination. And people in it, they don't know what they should do about their life next.
(Pin this if you liked his story! He is such a brilliant author that nobody knows in the west.)
1:51 “I know this is North Korea, but it does look quite a bit like China” -The Animaitor
i didn't notice that lmao
Your sarcasm on all topics is unmatched
i get it, it's funny because you are being sarcastic
Sebastian british humour innit
If they used Toyota Corollas this wouldn't have happened
obviously you’re here!
hey there
why do I see you everywhere?
wrong channel boy
Dude, you want a scholarship?
My parents: Where were you?! We were waiting for 12 days!
Me: Well, you can’t blame me. Blame the traffic.
My parents: *confused asf*
Smh just get out of the car and walk
Memetastic why are you here
Memetastic id be down but it’s too damn hot outside
what about the car?
@@moonfirearc6793 exactly
MoonFire Arc i'm pretty sure that's the joke.
In India or America a 12 day traffic jam would devolve into a weird Mad Max ripoff really quickly.
Don’t forget Russia.
All mad max movies are objectively trash, fact.
When Wendover doesn't talk about planes for 12 Days
He did tho at 0:42
Nick Z 169 likes
@@fivesquaredyt2521 Likes went down?
Traffic jam.
Made in China.
So instead of Twelve Days of Christmas, it's Twelve Days of Traffic
Atleast it's better than my cities skylines roads.
A true petrol-head If AI is stupid why do you call it Artifical *intelligence* while if he/she's stupid
3Y traffic jam
10/!0
😂😂😂
*15YEARJAM*
Now I am confused, are we supposed to like Brilliant or skillshare??
Mashoto Shaku or even squarespace
maybe we should increase our skill share by buying more square space
Linck192 brilliant! suggestion my friend
Brilliant is good, I used it before everyone was sponsored by it
Bfilliant is too expensive and doesn't teach you enough of anything. It's basically a game, not enough to start a new career.
Skips 2 weeks of work
Hey... traffic was really havy boss!
"hey uhh, how much are you going to be late?"
"don kno... Bout a week? Two?"
"ahhh, good, ok, it's faster than expected"
I love how Wendover and Half as Interesting is like a split personality for you
This channel keeps getting more humorous
Keep it up. You light up my Thursdays
Sht i gotta resist the urge...
HUMOUROUS**** FVCK
P
But its wednesday my dudes
The improvement in humor over the years is palpable and appreciated!
2:31 Thank you for clarifying. I was confused as to why cups, bowls, and plates would use coal for energy. It makes more sense that it's China, the country, than china, the porcelain.
I use to live in Beijing. To me, it’s funny how Americans finds our daily occurrences to be so interesting that they make a video about it. Then again, America is great, I can get to school in 10 minutes rather than 2 hours.
Animator Joe 2 fucking hours? And I thought 45 minutes was bad...
In Beijing it's literally faster to ride a bike than drive a car during rush hour I think. Also normal people take bus or subway anyway, you only drive a car in a Chinese metropolis if you want to "have face".
I'm sorry for you.
in america you break roads, in china roads break you...
This isn’t about your daily life, this video was about an event that happened on a certain day. No one cares what u do on a daily basis
It happened every Chinese New Year...
Also national holiday. And also every single work day during the rush hour.
Lol yea
Yeah. Walkable cities should be used to avoid that problem. Check out Not Just Bikes' channel if you want to know more: ruclips.net/user/NotJustBikes
3:14 reminded me of windows xp wallpaper, lol.
Hats off to those legal mines who sent their trucks in the "legal" highways and managed to avoid all that traffic.
this is probably about 1/2 as interesting as wendover productions
Tomithy YT thats the point
Aviation Gaming
Wooosh
For a second for some reason I thought this was Wendover xD 😂
Aviation Gaming r/woooosh
Circumcised foreskin is more interesting than this channel.
Over here in Burma we had the 12 day long water buffalo stampede
Pics or it didn't happen.
So this is what happen when everybody gets their water buffalo
Molotera 'no Andrea' Legarreta stop being so silly!
You have to be capping
It's mostly from the cows burps, not farts.
The point still stands.
CrazyNirvanaFanatic MahBoi not really, because cows were never meant to eat corn and soy.
"See? Here's a graph that says a thing." 😂😂😂
Just make hamburgers faster than cows are born until they're extinct and we have a shit ton of burgers stored
But then how do we eat steak,meatballs or even beef wouldn't exist
We don't
Daniel Gonzalez I can't live without meatballs
United Kingdom Mapping use horse meat SVERIGEEEEEE
1:00 He actually_has_ to make a *CORRECTION* here. Because the methane produced by the cows is mainly from their belches. There are multiple studies of this.
NASA even did studies on this. Sources:
climate.nasa.gov/blog/92/
climate.nasa.gov/faq/
metro.co.uk/2017/03/25/cow-burps-rather-than-farts-are-destroying-the-earths-atmosphere-6531638/
So he missed this one. But of course everyone makes mistake, and I am here to point those out.
Comment section:
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50% other
0.1% of 50% other:thanos
0:25
Haha ! This is the most humour he’s ever done in Wendover Productions and Half as Interesting ! Lol
2:00
I withdraw what I said
“Why where you late”
Ummmmmmm
This is my current favorite channel bc the videos are high quality, fast-paced, and really dense with information. I can't even give constructive criticism. Maybe the closest thing I can say is that there's always room to grow. I really think you've hit your stride and this style is consistently fun to watch. I hope you guys aren't burning yourselves out creating all this high quality content. The great content of this channel proves your capability as creators/animators. Please keep going! I'll always support this content and your endeavors :) much love from the Philippines!!! ♥️
China's highway system is longer than two football fields this comment is sponsored by Brilliant.
Washington D.C: the Beltway is SOO slow!
Los angeles: not as slow as mine!
The entirety of China: B O I
That Batman reboots joke is relevant again
1:51 an Asian joke by the animator there!
I don’t get it
I know this is North Korea but this looks quite a bit like China.
Baqar Zaidi Koreans and Asians look the same. Lol
FirstName LastName That is what the animator wrote...
do you know every single building in your town
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Teacher: Why are you late for class?
Kid: I was in a 12 day traffic jam
Teacher: BULLCRAP!
Kid: No, I’m serious, look on the news.
Teacher:
Kid: See?
Teacher:
Kid: Hello?
Teacher:
Kid: N-Nevermind.
Lmao
It's a fitting sponsor, because this whole video is brilliant.
I can't believe we have actually reached a time when we are describing a jam as *apocalyptic*
"See, here's a graph that says a thing."
Never heard a more intelligent sentence in my life.
Almost 4 out 5 mins of the video you talked about how they get energy. Nice.
“On the 12th day of traffic my true love gave to me,
*A divorce*
After a five minute video i havent seen a single image from the actual traffic jam and hasn't learned much more than the headline had said.
ruclips.net/video/O3kL6nMap2s/видео.html
Actualy that was newer ...this is from 2010 ruclips.net/video/krmS8Xw3VmQ/видео.html
stellvia hoenheim Yes i wonder how does a 12 day traffic jam looks like. I clicked on the video expecting to see a 12 day traffic jam. I have lived half of my life under a communist government and still does. What does that has anything to do with what i said. When you watch a video as opposed to reading an article you expect to see imagery of that incident.
But I have learned how you can learn all about Traffic jams with brilliant
Renewable resource?
The treaty of paris.
I don't think you got the joke
stellvia hohenheim Find the specific treaty he’s talking about.
Yeah.
Wait is this wendover’s second channe?!?!?! How have I never known?
When I was travelling the Öresund brige. The line was so huge we were their from mid to late scandinavian summer day to sunset. And it was so bad I wasn't the only one that went out to piss on the road.
Who would of thought that cow farts are slowly destroying our Earth
They aren't. Cow burps are. I like these videos but many times he gets the facts wrong.
Well vegans for one
India love cow soo much...
And why didn't the millions of buffalos the Americans killed off cause global cooling then? All that methane just stopped to be released into the atmosphere. Something is wrong with this theory.
@@q0w1e2r3t4y5 Except the irrefutable facts?
most of the methane produced by cows comes out of their mouths.
Staying cool w all the shade being thrown in the video
i just don’t get how one could sit in a traffic jam like that for that long. Just blows my mind.
Why is everyone talking about Corolla’s the rule is only meme about Corolla’s when watching RLL.
Aviation Spirit
It has become a slight meme here too. Many RLL fans comment about Corollas on Sam's videos.
I'm Mongolian and in winters we breath coal
юу бн? :р
pollution actually
suburban homes burn coal for heating in winter, so...
@Shane W: Per capita, mind you. It pioneers the world in CO2 emission per person, but the total pollution is nothing compared to that of the likes of Beijing, Islamabad or Delhi.
Lol
The traffic jams during the start of the holiday season on the Autoroute du Soleil are notorious. But they only last a
weekend at the longest.
I was just in Inner Mongolia, and G110 is one of the best maintained roads in Inner Mongolia. Many roads are so bumpy that cars have to move at walking speeds to not have the driver vomit.
"See: here's a graph that says a thing"
Me in math class every time
Wow it's getting hot in here! I can feel all the burns against China right through the screen! 😂😂
I actually remember hearing about it back then.
I'm disappointed there was no mention of the problem of bathroom breaks.
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US auto auctions. no shit. front companies buy the trucks at auction here in the states and ship them overseas. I saw one time that a plumber in the US saw his old truck on the news. They didnt even take his logo off. Thats how they found out that isis brokers were buying trucks in the US at auction.
US government gave them to "freedom fighter rebels" some how ended up ;) in ISS hands.
Ok guys, OK
This is my jam.
Imagine you finally take a 2 week vacation from work, are headed to the airport and get stuck in this
Julio Cortázar (a famous writer) has a story about a trafic jam that last weeks, but I never expected that to actually happen
Would love to hear more analysis of this particular case using concepts like fluid dynamics to explain in greater detail how this happened. Great attention to the spontaneous economies that grew up in the "free market" of the incident (i.e. 15 yuan water!). Any analogues in U.S. history?
Did you know that 250,000 people die each year on Chinese roads? Yep, that's a million people every four years.
LeBrigand compare to the world, china is in the middle (not too high and not too low deaths)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
Btw US is compare to all develop countries at the higher deathrate.
LeBrigand: it's gotta be higher than that in Russia - have you seen the dash cam videos on RUclips? Someone is driving straight at the dash cam car and the driver never slows or swerves.. mild boggling. In fact the less visibility...the faster they go.
Minneapolis is already Miami. As a resident I can confirm that we do have temperatures averaging about 85 during summer.
I came to HAI for the cool info overload and stood for the superb shade HAI be throwing all over the place!
“Wind or Batman movies”
"One Wonn"... Interesting pronunciation.
It's the most popular scale
your late friend on the phone “I’m only an hour away”
12 days later “I swear I left on time!”
I always say “only get on the interstate with a full tank and an empty bladder” because you never know what is going to happen. It wouldn’t have been much help with this one.
2:20
You on that “roasting the PRC” style
*Thinking hard about something clever*
And now they have created a worldwide jam , economic jam , healthcare facilities jam, etc ....and its lasting more than 12 days 😤
Covid cocktail, hold the cherry
🎵On the 12th day of Christmas, China gave to me, 12 whole days of traffic jam🎵
Living in Beijing, I can say that riding a BIKE while carrying all my school stuff (CHINESE SCHOOL stuff, probs 7kg) is still better than taking the bus or a car. You’re zipping through traffic on your bike, while all these losers warming up the earth in their cars are going nowhere.
How unfortunate...
On a twelve days of traffic my hater gave to meee
The recommended video after this is RLL’s on an 8 year traffic jam
Graphs that show things are one of my favorite things :D