Showing posts with label automobiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automobiles. Show all posts

Saturday, March 13, 2021

The Most Popular Car in Every Country


 Turns out everyone loves cars, so we got curious: what's the most popular car in EVERY country? How many countries even ARE there? Well it turns out both of those questions are more complicated than you'd think, but we did our best to find out for all 196 countries! Hopefully this helps you with Geoguessr, this is the D-List!


Saturday, July 21, 2018

Road diets: designing a safer street


Over the course of the 20th century, the car became America’s dominant mode of transportation. As vehicle miles travelled soared well past the rate of population growth, demands on the roadway surged. Congestion became a major issue. So transportation planners made the roads wider and added traffic lanes. Today, we now know that bigger roads and extra traffic lanes do nothing to solve congestion. In fact, it tends to induce even more traffic. So we didn’t fix the congestion issues, and on top of that, we built wide roads that are relatively unsafe.

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