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Paradox & Proof
Entry #0152
The reason more roads can mean slower traffic
A new road is opened and the journey takes longer. Nobody made a mistake. Every driver chose correctly, and that is precisely the problem.
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The hidden part
#0152
Braess’s paradox is not a story about bad drivers. It is a demonstration that a network of perfectly rational choices can settle on an outcome worse than the one it started from.