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Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

The War on Cars

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The Prisoner's Dilemma

Liss: I think we were under the same on that it was cultural, until we spoke to doctor marco. He framed it as this prisoner's dilemma. When you have a stop sign or a traffic light, you're removing the prisoner's dilemma from every junction and intersection. And there's no incentive to co operate with fellow road users because the way code, the traffic lights and stop signs dictate exactly what you're supposed to do in this situation. Liss: It just becomes this very organic network of users where we learn to trust each other, we learn to form sensus. Chris: We know that a lot of the burden of parenting, still, even in galetarian

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