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This might be my most popular tweet ever. Recipe: basic 2nd order Pohl's Law take ("job of sci fi is to predict traffic jams not automobiles"), with a dash of Cunningham's Law ("post a wrong answer to get the right one") plunked right into set of active derpquake faultlines 😝
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Just hit me that at say $3/gallon and say 40mpg, it would be cheaper for a self-driving gasoline car to just circle around than park anywhere at more than $3/hr. At say $0.5/mile fully loaded operating cost it’s not worth parking above $20/h. The loitering car cloud is coming.
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Good deconstruction of the psychology at play. What aspect touches on Cunninghams law? The wrong solution/answer being clearly not to have cars drive in circles? In your example that wouldn't be wrong tho right? Maybe suboptimal from a pollution standpoint tho