The ACTUAL Solution to Traffic - A Response to CGP Grey

Soundtrack attribution:

[AdamSomething]

The future:
"Honey, let's go, we're late for our Starship Earth to Earth flight to LA!"
"I know dear, I'm trying to reboot the car, but it keeps throwing an error."

[NotJustBikes]

Yeah I never liked this video from CGP Grey, but it really confused me, because he lives in London, and in a recent video, he said he hadn't driven in almost a decade. So he walks everywhere and takes public transit regularly, but still somehow makes a video about how to make cities incredibly shitty for pedestrians. Weird.

[MagereHein]

As every player of SimCity knows: the best way to get rid of a clogged road is to remove it.

[ceepert]

I live in germany.
I live 5 minutes of walking from the closest grocery store.
2 Minutes from the closest clothing store.
5 Minutes to my Doctor
5 Minutes to a trainstation for internal or external routes
5 Minutes to multiple fast food joints or restaurants

I dont even need a bike or public transport to reach 90% of my destinations in day to day life

[Pollieanna]

I love how a lot of the travel infrastructure videos on your channel is just “This is less efficient than a train, let’s improve it, whoops it’s a train” and i love it, it always leads back to trains

[greengreen]

gray: reject monkey, become robot
adam: reject car, become train

[Nickelodeon]

A free mugging experience? I always end up paying for mine.

[RJKYEG]

I visited London once, I liked using transit there. Someone told me a good bus technique there: jump on a bus that's going the direction you want to go, and just get off if it starts to go a direction you don't want to go. That worked well, there were buses everywhere we were going.

[ShotofDespresso]

As someone from Germany, I was baffled when I came over to the US and discovered that almost none of the Urban centers were as walkable as back home.

[aryansarc]

So basically like most sea creatures eventually evolved to crab, most transportation should eventually evolve to trains.

[randowdude]

The fact that when CGP grey said, "no more intersections" my brain didnt question how pedestrians would cross really got me questioning my inteligence

[mcstark]

in self driving dystopia you wouldn't even need to hack the cars to cause chaos, jamming or spoofing the sensors would be nearly as effective and much lower effort.

[colinstewart]

Tbh, you don't need a hacker to screw up and cause deaths at these intersections. The problem these guys can't get through their heads, is that glitches and programing errors will always exist, and a situation where no room for error exists, like what is depicted, is going to be awful.

[HypercopeEmia]

I love how almost every "new" tech way to transport is literally just fancy trains.

[OK-cpqw]

Solutions of traffic
Grey: "remove human drivers"
Adam: "yeet the cars"

[Brave_Brevity]

In all serious, I love cars but Adam Something shows how awful a car-centric society does. As such, support for public transport is absolutely needed.

[pachi]

Man i feel heard seeing some pictures are in the philippines, road/lane expansion (for a lack of a better term) here are becoming more and more rampant because the local government pushes for car centric roads despite being a third world country, where common folk don't have the fortune to afford housing with garages, and instead are forced to loan cars and park them at the streets, causing it to be more congested. the sidewalks are also getting smaller and smaller (some along the major avenue here is only sized the width of a person)

everything was at least better back then, where almost everything can be reached by commute through means of public transport. as time progresses, things get worse because of the aforementioned paragraph, and it's sad to see that means of public transport gets worse despite it being a huge part of our culture. there are many layers to this, but yeah

[iamwritingrightnow]

Anyone:“The solution to traffic is very complex especially when you consider-ä
Adam: *T R A I N*

[blackpolygon]

Ironically enough, Grey is not a car-driver, in one of his Tesla Vlogs he mentions that he did not drive for years after an accident and if you listen to his podcasts, he mentions that he actually isn't allowed to drive in his current home country of England. His main means of transportation are indeed public transportation and a bike.

[anotheraggieburneraccount]

The intersection without lights graphic he showed also was absolutely terrifying. 1 car makes 1 mistake and suddenly you have a really bad pileup and many many dead people.