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by awinter-py 2402 days ago
> Knowing how much gridlock and traffic those rideshare cars have added to the city, imagine six and a half times as much car driving as that is almost impossible.

An 83% increase isn't 6.5x more than a 12% increase, it's 71% more = less than 2x

Still bad but '6x greater increase' is the wrong way to describe this. (Also there's a grammar mistake in the sentence).