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by ars 814 days ago
Not really - you have to wait for the subway, it also takes a finite time to travel, and it frequently stops. It can avoid traffic, but the actual MPH can be slower than a car when you include both those things.
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Isn’t the point that you have a way to get to a point far away faster than you can get to a point in between? The worm hole thing ist because you can only exit at discrete points so it pulls a single point far away, and it’s sorrounding, closer to the starting point. That’s probably hard to map to a 2D map because there would be some overlap between the different „islands“ starting from subway stations
If you could take the shortest path to each point, it would solve the problem and be interesting. Not necessarily easy to do though.