Car Brain’s Dilemma

~ Veselin

Car Brain‘s Dilemma is a (made-up) form of the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

  • In a city like Sofia, if everyone goes to work by public transport, bicycles, or walking, the average commute would be 30 minutes
  • If most people go by bus, the ones who choose a car would reach work in 15 minutes
  • if most people go by car, going by bus will take 1h, and going by car will take 45 minutes

It’s faster to go by car but if all people don’t use cars, the average commute time would improve. How do you resolve that?

I wrote a small essay on the subject of why people associate cars with freedom in 2023

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14 thoughts on “Car Brain’s Dilemma”

  1. Oh, that’s cool. That might explain why taking the car is usually faster in Sweden. Getting stuck in traffic is not really a thing here. At least not in the most horrific ways one hears about in the U.S etc.

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  2. Related: buses never arrive when the schedule says they will, so people drive instead. But buses are mostly late because of the traffic, so if people don’t drive the buses will be more likely to be on time.

    It’s a problem. How do you make taking the bus more attractive than driving your own little climate-controlled bubble?

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  3. Having lived in Prague without a car and going everywhere on public transport, and then coming home to the US I realized the that, for most of this country, public transportation is not a reasonable option. If I wanted to take a bus, I’d have to drive about 4 miles to the nearest stop. I’d love to have a transport system here, but it will never happen.

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  4. In here, nothing makes different because everybody and every vehicle is being stuck in the city traffic… You don’t to drive or get a taxi or bus… Thank you dear Veselin, Love, nia

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  5. You don’t have any idea about İstanbul’s traffic. The commute to work is not within walking distance, my husbance makes “the 15-minute journey” every morning and every evening in more than an hour by creating traffic miracles… For this reason, students get on the shuttles early in the morning and when they return, they spend all their time on the road, especially if there is an extraordinary situation in the city, like snow, rain or a storm, you can’t even imagine…

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