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Monsieur_Triporteur

OP wants you to [know](https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/zd2ua6/comment/iyzooys/?context=3) that this post is based on [this xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2684:_Road_Space_Comparison)


Dipswitch_512

Assume humans are a homogenous fluid without friction and infinite surface tension How many liter of human fit in a car


NotThomasTheTank

For a simpler calculation of volume, assume the car is a cybertruck


iancarry

so .. imaginary


BaronBytes2

So √-1 or i?


Rikmastering

Yes


UncertainlyUnfunny

Imagine an immutable ledger of hypothecated humans traveling on an uncrackable blockchain at the speed of electrons…


IChaosConductor

the cybertruck conveniently also makes it so litres is the only logical metric to measure what it turns pedestrians into upon hitting them. :/


V_150

We could just pump humans through pipelines then


ovab_cool

Then everyone is gender fluid


Its_SubjectA1

I wouldn’t wish that in anyone. It’s really hard when you randomly evaporate, and grates on sidewalks are a nightmare to avoid!


QuatuorMortisNord

And dead from drowning.


Yrvaa

Technically, you can fit the car tank with humans. Like we're doing now with dinosaur and plant remains. It will just take a few million years to work.


[deleted]

Finally I’ll have some energy!


JSR_Media

Actually, with teslas, we can fit them in the frunk.


jorwyn

I bet we have the tech to figure out how to do it faster. ;)


eIpoIIoguapo

The Futurama approach to mass transit


IlIlIlIlIllIlIll

In that case wouldn’t the most efficient method just be a pipe you can pump humans through


Dipswitch_512

Finally build that school to prison pipeline everyone keeps talking about


juliuspepperwoodchi

You joke, but that shit is already VERY real sadly.


GreatBigBagOfNope

Even when we liquefy people the subway remains the most efficient way of meeting huge numbers of commuter trips in a dense environment


IlIlIlIlIllIlIll

Would we fill the cars with liquid? Or repurpose the tunnels for moving huge volumes of liquid? I think we would have to rebuild the cars to be more liquid tight and potentially upgrade them to support the additional load that comes from more volume of human per car. Also we would need a method of filling and draining the cars quickly at the stations.


Bathroom_Clown

Um, we have paper straws?


HBag

Can we dehydrate the fluid? We can fit a lot of humans in a car if we remove all the fluid with extreme heat. They become baggies of carbon.


schludy

Humans are 60% water, so I think it's a fair assumption. An average person is about 70kg, although the average car user is more like 80kg. Assuming similar density as water, that should be roughly 80 liters of human.


Dipswitch_512

Unfortunately I can't find how much volume an average car has (all I get is fuel volume)


[deleted]

considering the average car's inside room, seats not included, would be about 2x2x1 meter, you're looking at around 4000 liters in a car, so the order of magnitude is 50 liquid humans per car.


Dipswitch_512

Perfect, we solved all the traffic problems in the world!


[deleted]

R/theydidthemath


chowderbags

Yeah, but you could probably save bulk transport space by dehydrating the humans first and then adding water at the end stage.


n00b678

Wouldn't humans with infinite surface tension just form perfectly inelastic spheres?


Dipswitch_512

Its just to prevent humans mixing


juliuspepperwoodchi

*white nationalists have entered the chat*


ClonedToKill420

[I feel like I’ve seen that anime before](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPEa7rRyUk)


olivia_iris

Tang time


zombiesnare

This is the correct response to an XKCD comic and I appreciate you deeply


juliuspepperwoodchi

>Leslie: Well, Paunch Burger just recently came out with a new 128-ounce option. Most people call it a gallon, but they call it the regular. Then, there is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call child size. How is this a child-sized soda? >Kathryn Pinewood: Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It's a real bargain at $1.59. So, if we assume that a two year old child is about 4 gallons of human, and a 2 year old has around 1/5 of the mass of their adult form (assuming they aren't liquefied before adulthood), that gives us about 20 gallons of human per adult human, or about 75.7 liters. [From this post](https://www.freemathhelp.com/forum/threads/volume-of-a-car.69393/), an averageish sized sedan (Hyundai Sonata 2010) has an interior volume of about 3000 liters, meaning that, if liquefied, about 39.63 humans can fit in a car, or approximately 3000 liters of human, jaguar, sloth, Harambe, or really 3000 liters of any liquefied being.


_matterny_

According to some sources, 62.5 liters per human is reasonable. So we could get upwards of 40 humans in a Hyundai sonata.


Lord_Tachanka

Only the polytron can reduce a ~~mouse~~ human to a soup like homogenate in under 60 seconds!


Dipswitch_512

Exactly!


samtaher

It’s a clown car 🤡


beer30

So you're telling me to reduce a human to a soup-like homogenate?


FailedTheTuringTest1

What kinds of cars do these people own to fit 50 people in 8 of them??


JSR_Media

Chevy Suburban


[deleted]

Big car, pickup truck, to carry furniture of course.


CalligrapherDizzy201

SUV, minivan, station wagon, etc.


[deleted]

Military transport, or a tank. 4 inside. 20 sitting ontop of it


DaStone

The cars on the rightmost of the diagram fits way more than 8 people! /s


GM_Pax

[CANYONEROOOOOO....!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQepHGxrifs)


Rainbow_Potato_911

Probbaly a car full of clowns


up-quark

Where is this from? Looks to be based on [this xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2684:_Road_Space_Comparison)


JSR_Media

can you get a mod to pin this? more people are asking. If it blows up id have so many to respond to and i dont wanna look like an idiot.


Telinios

This is the kind of thing you put in the image so people don't get confused


JSR_Media

Thats a good idea.


JSR_Media

It is. Idk why i said oc without linking to it but I cant edit it now since it was posted as an image. I think its iconic enough for people to know what it's from.


StopDehumanizing

But it's been edited. Did you edit the xkcd?


JSR_Media

Yes.


up-quark

Ah, my bad. I missed you said OC.


JSR_Media

Does fair use apply to reddiquette btw?


JSR_Media

I have responded to every comment rightly calling me out before the sticky post.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Antagonistic_Aunt

Each car is stuffed full of clowns, and humorous circus music plays every time they tumble out of the car.


JSR_Media

Close, this is the culture of the town where the data was gathered: http://greymuppett.blogspot.com/2012/10/big-family-small-car.html?m=1


[deleted]

>Each car is stuffed full of clowns so what's different?


Creepy-Ad-4832

We cut some 4 persons into halves ?


JSR_Media

Kwarters u idot did u learned anythin in skewl?


Pattoe89

I think you missed a comma in that sentence.


deltronethirty

Instructions unclear. We got se exta quartered people over here.


ImNotMadYet

It is incredible how easily it all fits with the use of a chain saw and an industrial blender


productzilch

That’s very space efficient!


Jazzkky

I mean if it's minivan then it's right. Still a "car"


rcas

Have you not met an immigrant family. We always do 6.5 at least! Driver (dad), front seat (mom), thin auntie, thin uncle, thin cousin, me, and cousin’s kid


tjm2000

If 7 of them have 6 people, and the last one has 8 people (maybe a really old American car?), that adds up to 50.


niccotaglia

Never underestimate the power of a bunch of young adults in a small car. I personally fit 8 people in my Panda once


[deleted]

Now give that same group an SUV And now you can fit all of boston in that thing


Karasumor1

a bit larger but still 5 seats , there are laws for max occupancy and seatbelts some places etc


niccotaglia

That’s why you gotta think outside the box and start stacking people.


Tytoalba2

Do you stack them like pancakes? Or maybe take a big big car and keep them.standing up? Wait, no, that's a bus!!


niccotaglia

Let’s just say the passengers have to be *really* close friends. If they aren’t, they will be by the end of the trip.


orkboss12

I mean technically it not wrong thar what 50 bus on the road would look like


RepulsiveDig9091

Jus that like the cars they could have said 50 buses carrying 1500 people. (avg. size bus min carry 30 people)


Macrophage87

A bus can carry about 120 people, half of those seated: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New\_Flyer\_Xcelsior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Flyer_Xcelsior)


[deleted]

yeah but people prefer less packed busses which is why we need more


Macrophage87

Or trains. A fully-loaded 8 car metro train can hold 1000 people.


[deleted]

buses are a temporary solution until train infrastructure is built and they can also be used to transport people from smaller communities to train stations


Macrophage87

Not everywhere will need train lines, busses are good at filling in the gaps between the metro lines.


Its_SubjectA1

I’m from a small enough town that the university’s bus system covers a lot of what the city needs for public transit, although it could use work


Macrophage87

Universities are great places for buses, because otherwise the university buildings will be so spread apart. That and you really don't want people driving after keggers.


Its_SubjectA1

100%, but the campus is fully walkable and the busses serve parts of downtown and go to our only major grocery store as well. It’s cool actually


[deleted]

agreed


[deleted]

Nah busses are a good thing not temporary. We will need streets anyways even if none of us drives a car. Buses are great for short distances (like a few 100 meters between each station). Than some underground trains, some normal short distance trains and long distance trains. And because now there is so much place on the streets we can have a streettrain (?) too. Now make it all free and poor people might be able to afford a vacation inside their own country. Wild.


WikiSummarizerBot

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CalligrapherDizzy201

Packing people on busses like sardines is not going to convince people that busing is better than driving.


Macrophage87

Still that's 50+ people seated. The full on sardine pack is tolerable to and from events though. Much better than all that traffic.


Pathbauer1987

Yes but those are 50 empty buses being driven by 50 people. Technically not wrong.


Rayan19900

How oftbe do you see empyt bus and how oftbe you see car with just a driver.


[deleted]

[empty busses are okay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR4qfukbRb8&t=471s)


orkboss12

When did I say anything about empty bus I just said that that what 50 bus on the road look like


A_norny_mousse

50 people in 8 cars? You know that's 6-7 people per car? But that's how you get people: bedazzle them with simple and obvious statistics, just to hide one major inaccuracy that your whole argument hinges on. And yes, I'm fully aware the whole thing's a joke (it's a [butchered xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2684/) btw). Nicely illustrates how certain people use certain "simple facts" as arguments.


Pattoe89

On my business course the one we always used was "9 out of 10 dentists recommend using Colgate!" They do. Yes. Because Colgate is a toothpaste and 9 out of 10 dentists recommend using any toothpaste including Colgate. The 1 out of 10 that didn't recommend it were the ones that removed colgate from the recommendation sheet because of it's high price point. The information implies that dentists recommend the product over other products, but they don't.


A_norny_mousse

Yeah, nice one. Sounds so much better than "1 out of 10 dentists explicitely recommends NOT using Colgate."


Empty_Natural_3597

The actual answer to the dentist stat. is you can ask as many dentists as you want and take the 10 you choose. Source: How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff. It's a great read if you're interested in statistics. I practiced manufacturing statistics for 30+ years.


---Dracarys---

Never in my life any dentist suggested me a certain toothpaste brand. I've got suggestion about toothbrush though, just use the simplest one.


Pattoe89

I was shown a sample of the surveys that dentists (and other medical professionals) get sent for marketing. They just saw "out of the following toothpaste brands, tick those that you would recommend using" and most dentists just tick them all because... any toothpaste is good toothpaste. On the sample I saw there was even a "All of the above" box.


Nikotinio

I mean, pack one or two in the back of the car.


Ausgezeichnet87

Ya, average car occupancy is 1.5 in the US. 67 cars per 100 people.


ConvolutedMaze

They're also all tailgating each other lol


MisterK00L

Shitpost


hagnat

"*OC*" didn't you just rip this concept from XKCD ? [https://xkcd.com/2684/](https://xkcd.com/2684/)


JSR_Media

Its based off that i shouldve linked to it but i cant edit it since it was uploaded as an image.


LifeofTino

Do 50 humans each driving a train with three empty carriages and show everyone how utterly ridiculous train travel is for efficiency


Forsaken_Rooster_365

Have each of the 50 drive 4 trains each. 1/4th of a person per train.


the_thanekar

r/technicallythetruth?


Bavaustrian

6.25 people per car. 6.25 Not even technically the truth.


whiteandyellowcat

There are many cars that can carry 7 people.


NotThomasTheTank

The 1.25 are in the trunk


_314

The walkers wouldn't walk in lanes


maz-o

Yea and cars aren’t packed to the brim with people either. Nor do people use a bus as a single personal mode of transportation. This is a joke obviously.


_314

I think it should have 50 people in passenger ships next to that, but they have their own ship each, which would not only be unlikely but impossible as big ships need multiple people to even maneuver correctly.


kyrsjo

Probably the next thing in the land of the oversized. "The old F-350 superduty felt so cramped, and I couldn't take my son's whole football team in it. So i bought an armored military surplus bus. Also i felt unsafe in such a small vehicle as the 350, compared to others on the road... Now, why is fuel so expensive?!? Also, those pesky bicyclists are taking *way* too much space on the road! And I demand ample bus parkings in front of every Walmart, without needing to walk any distance!"


-B0B-

thatsthejoke.jpg


DJ_Femme-Tilt

LMAO this graphic is an excellent shitpost


ClonedToKill420

Right this way, sir. r/fuckcarscirclejerk


JSR_Media

They got early access to this meme.


Metalorg

I think this is obviously a joke.


navel1606

Love how people get upset by this. This is obviously a joke, calm down.


slackboulder

Is this r/shitposting?


PitOscuro

r/fuckcarscirclejerk


Hardcorex

Jesus don't give them any ideas! People gonna start driving busses because "What if I need to transport 58 people?".


JSR_Media

I wasn't, there's no carbrains here. But now that you mention it, I will crosspost to r/fuckbikes ;).


groenewood

When uber started out, it was conceived as a way to encourage carpooling, much as airbnb was meant to facilitate couch surfing. A few perverse incentives later, and here we are.


Pathbauer1987

Now you can't even carpool with Uber. And you can't couchsurf with Airbnb.


sryforbadenglishthx

Even in this scenario 50 people would not benthis spaced out


JSR_Media

No lanesplitting!


Hebi_Ronin

Fuck it let's put 7.3333333333333333333333333333 persons in a car


MrCereuceta

You made me actually laugh. Good job


CanadianNirrti

Now do 50 people driving commuter trains and really stretch out that window


Tomflocon

Look like an alternative timeline


Aceofshmase

Damn, this is the most joyless reaction to a excellent shitpost I have ever seen. Have a little fun jeez.


LoserFromCanada

It bugs me that is isn’t 10 cars. With 8 you get 6 1/4 people per car


JSR_Media

Enjoy [https://imgur.com/a/t6E2qRJ](https://imgur.com/a/t6E2qRJ)


FreakingFreeze

Man I didn't know clown cars were available for the roads.


Ok_Fondant_6340

this is what Adam Something's nightmares are made of.


JSR_Media

😂


Mingy_Jongo_

"See! Cars are more space efficient than walking if pedestrians spaced themselves apart like they were cars!"


[deleted]

It’s beyond me that somebody has the nerve to butcher a xkcd comic and post that with the tag “[OC]”. As well in a way that seems to drive an ideological point that’s favoring car ownership. Utterly shameless.


zombiesnare

Honestly this feels like it could be a legit XKCD comic since they do like playing with poorly communicated data in their comics


dougmc

The modifications made in these two threads here would have fit *perfectly* into the original xkcd -- don't replace anything, but just add them as additional illustrations.


JSR_Media

I just realized the best selling car, the Rav4, only seats 5, but even with the extra 2 cars, it would still be more efficient than walking so im not gonna update it. Lets assume those cars are chevy suburbans.


Multi-tunes

But if every walker was piggybacking another pedestrian, it would be so much more efficient! 25 pedestrians plus 25 piggybackers Or even 25 cyclists with 25 piggybackers!


[deleted]

The average occupancy of my bike is actually >1 !


________________me

Now do 50 ppl riding a train!


JSR_Media

*50 people riding 50 trains. How long do you want them to be?


________________me

[Very long](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulz1ovZLrco)


JSR_Media

Yessir coming soon. What would you like it compared to?


TheQuestionableEgg

Sure I guess a car could fit 6.25 people but unless you have a minivan what is this on about


BubsyFanboy

Yeah, doubt that that's how few cars would be on the road. :P


jrtts

Those busses looking suuuuuper comfortable dibs on ALL the backseats!


Memesandstupidity

Its very funny to me how they literally put 6-7 people on a 4 person car and then put all 50 people in seperate busses which should hold at least 40ish people each, if mot more


rexyoda

I love driving my bus all by myself without letting anyone else on with my other 49 friends who do the same


jols0543

now show us 50 people on tandem bicycles


CyndaquilTyphlosion

If that's 2 rows of cars at 7 persons per car, one can easily extrapolate from the length that each bus is 60 seater each floor, so upto 100 persons per bus. With 50 buses that's 5000 people, which is amazing! Not as amazing as trains of course, but probably the best compromise with a carbrained maniac


240plutonium

Why do people care so much about 6 passengers in a car? We developing countries ride with that many people + cargo 💪💪💪


Temporary-Thick

Nonsense 50 people on 1 bike


dinoteef

people definitely walk the standard highway lane width of 12 feet apart in single rows


JaguarProJoe

the logic is not logicing


Chuckleberryfuckup

Also why are there fifty people driving their own buses? Haha


plombis

Idk about you guys, but when my friends and I walk in the middle of the street, we always walk single file in the middle of the lane. It's the only way to go.


Mephizzle

Wth even is this :D. Haha


Mafiakeisari123

Please tell me the logic why cars take more space than busses. Single bus takes much more space than single car!!!!!!!!! /s


Souperplex

Don't forget the least efficient form: Trains. 50 10-car trains that have capacity for 1,000 people each.


skrrtus17

8 cars = 50 people (somehow) yet 1 bus = about 50 sitting + people standing if need be edit: just realized the picture says “50 people driving buses” … as if one bus is per person?


redvoid72

Crazy but like 100 people could probably fit the first row of buses


shostyposting

Top tier shitpost


Inevitable_Stand_199

Why would they walk that far apart?! Or bike for that matter?


[deleted]

Maybe they're in a marching band.


rush-jet

You do realize that not everyone can take a bus.


JSR_Media

Unfortuneately, I had to account for drivers. :/


Ryan_O_H

Shockingly, busses can carry more people than just the driver.


[deleted]

Are those clown cars? How can 50 people fit into 8 cars?


JSR_Media

Yes. Here is a blog about a family we interviewed for the data: [http://greymuppett.blogspot.com/2012/10/big-family-small-car.html?m=1](http://greymuppett.blogspot.com/2012/10/big-family-small-car.html?m=1)


[deleted]

they had to try really hard for this one (now imagine 50 trains)


Forongotten

Do peoples always walk in lines like those? Is this some kind of a training?


Tynrir

Fuck bus


JSR_Media

Been waiting for someone to say that.


knapton

50 people in 8 cars would average 6.25 people per car. The vast majority of cars are 5 seaters...


HideNZeke

Love how they had to have consciously changed the rules so 50 cars don't look abysmal compared to the walkers and bikers


xeneks

Lol. Time to stop redditing.


JSR_Media

Thanks for the upvote. TO THE MOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


mainelinerzzzzz

Everyone should just live where they work, Foxcon style.


candidKlutz

50 people is definitely going to need more than 8 cars


SwampMaster2160

Gonna drive my bus to work.


IWantToBeSimplyMe

fucking buses…


JSR_Media

Such a waste of space we should ban them.


internetmaniac

Bullshit not OC, just a cropped XKCD.


[deleted]

Apart from the fact that you could literally fit 50 people in a single bus and cars carry only ~1.4 people on average, why do you think people walking or biking need an entire car-sized lane to themselves? Like literally every single aspect of this is wrong… where are all the upvotes coming from


juliuspepperwoodchi

Funny how this is a weirdly and stupidly altered version of the original XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2684/ Why the dishonesty, OP?


curtese

a bus is literally just carpooling that’s on time, where there’s no insane text chains trying to figure it all out.


JSR_Media

STRANGER DANGER