{"id":219,"date":"2005-01-07T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-01-07T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T17:52:01","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-the-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200501\/what-is-wrong-with-the-article\/","title":{"rendered":"What is wrong with the article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/ravikiran.com\/archives\/000238.htm\">linked<\/a> to a Wired article asking what was missing in that article. What <i>I<\/i> found missing is any mention of the impact of trade-off between <i>safety<\/i> and  <i>commute time<\/i>.  Speed is mentioned only in passing and is treated as if it is an unambiguously bad thing. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article talking of &#8220;slower traffic, fewer accidents, shorter trip times&#8221; in the first page. Huh?  How are they going to manage to achieve slower traffic <i>and<\/i> shorter trip times simultaneously? I go on and read through the next two pages. Not a word.<\/p>\n<p>All decisions involve trade-offs. There is a trade-off between  safety and speed.  If you want to breathlessly talk of how everyone has been doing everything wrong for the past 80 years and completely ignore any talk of the cons of your ideas, you might as well save your breath  because all I&#8217;ll hear is &#8220;pseudo-science&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I linked to a Wired article asking what was missing in that article. What I found missing is any mention of the impact of trade-off between safety and commute time. Speed is mentioned only in passing and is treated as if it is an unambiguously bad thing. Here&#8217;s an article talking of &#8220;slower traffic, fewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}