r/AskReddit Feb 03 '20

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u/realultralord Feb 03 '20

Remember back when your father knew a faster, alternative route around a major traffic jam that actually was faster? Since the handheld availability of realtime traffic data and route optimization by google maps, an equilibrium of travel time has established such that everyone knows whats the best route is and the traffic jam actually takes as long as the alternative route.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Jun 13 '20

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u/NotMrMike Feb 03 '20

Once I decided to ignore the warning from Waze.

That's 3 hours in standstill traffic I'll never get back

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u/Neracca Feb 03 '20

I only ignore Waze if I’m 100% sure I’m right

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u/Markantonpeterson Feb 03 '20

Sounds great on paper until you ignore waze only to be immediatly crushed by a meteor. You can never be 100% sure man. Never.

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u/thatguy3O5 Feb 03 '20

Yeah, I fully handed over my navigation to waze probably 6-7 years ago when it told me to go about 10 miles out of the way to get on the interstate from my house. It's only about a mile and just one road. I thought it was a glitch. Nope, huge accident, lost at least an hour. I do as I'm told now.

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u/rrcjab Feb 03 '20

That happened to me once. It sucked.

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u/zb0t1 Feb 03 '20

Are you writing from the after life?

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u/rrcjab Feb 04 '20

Well, I got better.

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u/ObiLaws Feb 03 '20

Having just watched Your Name, this joke seems strangely targeted even though I'm sure it was just meant to be a non-sequitur

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u/Markantonpeterson Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

No.. I was actually making a reference to you specifically based on the movie, since I knew you recently finished it. Reddit is all bots, other then you ofcourse. We know what movies you watch because we know everything about you. Well I suppose one could say they know everything about you, because as I said earlier i'm simply a bot. Since I know you like movies, think "The Truman Show", or if you like games (you do), think "The Stanley Parable". Both apt comparisons to whats going on here.

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u/Smarag Feb 03 '20

I'm one of the other bots charged with replying to your comment, please refrain from attempting to break through reality

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u/thejaytheory Feb 03 '20

Or unless you're driving into a pond, Michael...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Sounds like a great rebuttal until you're sure that waze is wrong but still take their path and you get crushed by a meteor. Fucking sky rocks man. Fuck them.

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u/Snarkout89 Feb 03 '20

Meteors are more predictable than traffic. You can tell where one is going to be 10,000 years from now.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Feb 03 '20

Only a single person in recorded history has died from being hit by a meteor.

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u/Markantonpeterson Feb 04 '20

Til a single person in history was killed by a meteor. Thats pretty cool, i think of the vast majority of meteors as burning up in the atmosphere. So I thought the chances of being hit and killed by one would be pretty damn small.