Three Body Thinking

George Carlin Quote: Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

If you are like me, the Zipper Merge can feel like a fairly theatrical moment in your day. People honking, yelling, swerving, cutting fellow drivers off and of course winners and losers. In this episode we talk about who is right and wrong in zipper merges according to data, police and civil engineers as well as what the whole experience can teach about how humans think.

ITRE Studying How Zipper Merges Reduce Congestion: https://itre.ncsu.edu/itre-studying-how-zipper-merges-reduce-congestion-at-sites-across-north-carolina/

The Zipper Merge: The Best Way to Merge in Traffic https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/4c/auto/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving

Welcome to Three Body Thinking, a podcast where we explore the inner workings of the Universe. In this episode, I explain a little about what Three Body Thinking is and how I arrived at it as a philosophical worldview. My thoughts and views have been constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed countless times over the past decade and I am happy to share what I have learned along the way!