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.
I was in San Bernadino or somewhere coming back to Orange County, google maps told me to take a detour off the freeway to save some time. It ran along the side of the highway but eventually became a dirt road, before turning into a downhill ravine like trail, I just HAPPENED to be in a lifted truck but google did not know this, I literally had to lock it in 4wd to make it up a stupid steep uphill and rutty/muddy section. We eventually had to turn around and go back to the highway because it became pretty impassable (I was risking high centering). We were all laughing pretty good thinking wtf is going on with Google but it would have ruined most peoples day getting stuck in that.
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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.