Episode 898
Humans navigate inefficiently in cities
We tend to take the pointiest, rather than the fastest, route to our destination when walking in cities
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 10, 20215m 18s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (flex.acast.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Have you ever noticed that you take one particular walking route to the shops, only to take a completely different route on the way back? If so, you might not be alone...based on recent paper published in Nature Computational Science, this is more common than you might think and could be because our brains try to always take the pointiest, not necessarily the fastest, route to their destination. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Topics
walkingnavigating citiesnavigationCarlo RattiMITnature computational sciencepointiest pathfastest pathoptimisationmachine learningbig data