The average human will spend 1-3 years in traffic over the duration of their life. That’s crazy! There’s got to be an easy fix to the traffic issue—just add more roads, right? Turns out that this is a major problem studied by physicists and psychologists alike, with no easy answers. Join Hank Green and find out why improving traffic is such a difficult task in this new episode of SciShow!
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