{"id":933,"date":"2006-04-19T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=933"},"modified":"2006-04-19T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T08:13:33","slug":"self-organization-on-the-street-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/self-organization-on-the-street-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-organization on the streets of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to me that people are usually afraid of self-organizing behaviour.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM\">This video<\/a> of typical traffic on a street in India shows why self-organization can be scary.<\/p>\n<p>But the other thing to also notice is how well it works.  In the comments on the video, someone remarks that 230 people a day die on Indian roads.  But in a population of 1 billion people, this has to be close to or lower than the rate in Canada.  And considering what this video shows &#8211; the near misses and cars driving the worng way and pedestrians weave through traffic, that&#8217;s remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to me that people are usually afraid of self-organizing behaviour. This video of typical traffic on a street in India shows why self-organization can be scary. But the other thing to also notice is how well it works. In the comments on the video, someone remarks that 230 people a day die on Indian roads. But in a population of 1 billion people, this has to be close to or lower than the rate in Canada. And considering what this video shows &#8211; the near misses and cars driving the worng way and pedestrians weave through traffic, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}