“ Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other’s way. Which way do you step?
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Understanding and modelling how pedestrians behave is a youngish field for researchers. Anticipating pedestrian flows makes crowd events smoother and safer, and accounting for the peculiar propensities of different nationalities is key to getting it right. (via theeconomist)
I love this sort of thing
(via eldinire)
You know, in the first weeks living in Hawaii, I noticed that a lot of older Asian folks would keep to the left on sidewalks and move that way if someone was coming from the opposite direction.
A few weeks later on campus, I noticed myself moving to the left to get out of the way for people…
(via eldinire)
