Traffic
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Osario: Well
traffic
tonight is fine.
Nothing of concern in terms of
traffic.
We had heavy
traffic
early in the morning and in the rush hour in the afternoon, but nothing of big concern.
We are below average in terms of
traffic
incidents in the city.
And we can use smart IT to make
traffic
free-flowing.
The accident rate goes down when you apply this to red
traffic
lights; it goes up when you apply it to green
traffic
lights.
It comfortably accommodates one teenager and it's shorter than a
traffic
cone, and it's almost as efficient as a bicycle, as long as you drive it at 15 miles per hour.
And after I'm done cooking and cleaning and standing in line and getting stuck in traffic, my partner and I, we get together and we decide that we're gonna go and have some wild and crazy fun.
This is all 40 minutes of the recording, and right away the algorithm tells us a lot more tricks are missed than are made, and also a trick on the rails is a lot more likely to produce a cheer, and if you look really closely, we can tease out
traffic
patterns.
So, off I went into Friday afternoon traffic, and I'll never forget what I saw when I got there.
It's only sold by a phalanx of street hawkers who run around the streets of Lagos at bus stations and in
traffic
jams and sell it as a snack, and it's been sold that way for 40 years.
And I will vouch that it handled the stop-and-go
traffic
on US 101 very smoothly.
So the problem is, nowadays, with modern man— (Laughter) — when we feel in danger, we still fill up with our own chemical but because we can't kill
traffic
wardens — (Laughter) — or eat estate agents, the fuel just stays in our body over and over, so we're in a constant state of alarm, a constant state.
But the thing is, I don't want to be a
traffic
cop.
But why do people want me to direct traffic, when I would much rather go fishing?
So if we're not worrying about directing traffic, if we've transcended paper, if we are worrying less about control and more about description, then we can think of the English language as being this beautiful mobile.
But if your goal is no longer to direct the traffic, but maybe to count the cars that go by, then more eyeballs are better.
If we can do that, then I can spend all my time fishing, and I don't have to be a
traffic
cop anymore.
And
traffic
planners all around the world have tried lots of different measures: dense cities or dispersed cities, lots of roads or lots of public transport or lots of bike lanes or more information, or lots of different things, but nothing seems to work.
Because you still have 80 percent of the
traffic.
Now, that's also wrong, because
traffic
happens to be a nonlinear phenomenon, meaning that once you reach above a certain capacity threshold then congestion starts to increase really, really rapidly.
If you can reduce
traffic
even somewhat, then congestion will go down much faster than you might think.
It's now six and a half years ago since the congestion charges were introduced in Stockholm, and we basically have the same low
traffic
levels still.
Now these
traffic
figures are really exciting and a little bit surprising and very useful to know, but I would say that the most surprising slide here I'm going to show you today is not this one.
Which means that we are now in a position where we have reduced
traffic
across this toll cordon with 20 percent, and reduced congestion by enormous numbers, and people aren't even aware that they have changed, and they honestly believe that they have liked this all along.
The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the
traffic
ticket.
And then a few days later, driving home from our honeymoon, he got frustrated by traffic, and he threw a cold Big Mac in my face.
There was a
traffic
jam and a crowd of people gathered as if it were the location of some spectacular accident, or the sudden sighting of a visiting pop star.
All of a sudden, a very large percentage of the
traffic
on the whole Internet, including a lot of the
traffic
between U.S. military installations, started getting re-routed through China.
This is how that photo is seen by an algorithm of
traffic
analysis.
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