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by joehewitt
3662 days ago
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On Memorial Day I walked outside and did a double take - my quiet street, tucked away many turns from any main road, was backed up with cars from end to end. I'd never seen that before in 5 years here. Turned out it was Waze sending beachgoers (I'm still 30 minutes from the beach) on a side route to the nearest on ramp for the highway that heads to the coast. Within an hour there was a police car here diverting drivers and the town put up cones to stop it. What's frustrating is this "shortcut" was completely ineffective. It simply moved the traffic jam from the main roads to our tiny neighborhood. |
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This exemplifies the arrogance of 'disruptive companies' when they think they can improve on something like a traffic system or a taxi system.
They set out to make things more efficient without a deep understanding of the problem.
They see every problem as a technical optimization problem because they learned this kind of thing at school. However society has usually evolved a set of rules balancing the rights of various parties already.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence