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  • klu9@lemmy.catoFunny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.worldNew Math
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    8 days ago

    Some bureaucrats in Mexico City tried this years ago.

    An important ring road had two lanes in each direction. To increase its capacity, they didn’t actually widen the road; they just repainted the lane markings to turn two lanes into three, and claimed a 50% capacity increase!

    Everyone immediately screamed about being crammed together just centimetres apart, accidents increased and the city officials quickly u-turned; they repainted to have just 2 lanes in each direction again.

    But they then tried to claim that as that was a 33% decrease, and that because they had earlier increased it 50%, that meant they had achieved a net 17% increase in the road’s capacity!






  • I remember this same whole “Wahhh! You don’t buy our cars!” palaver playing out with the US and Japan back when that cunt was first expressing his love of tariffs. (Late 80s/early 90s)

    Sure, Japan had some trade barriers. But Japanese automakers absolutely worked their arses off with market research, design etc in order to succeed at selling in the US market. US automakers couldn’t even be arsed to install coin holders that fit Japanese coins, let alone put the steering wheel on the right side of the car.

    And even if US automakers nowadays showed even a modicum of nous for foreign markets, practically their entire production line has been geared to churning out ever more monstrous pickups and 4x4s, thanks almost entirely to their fucked up tax rules on vehicles.