@lightweight These videos are great. Last night I watched his previous video on how badly Google Maps works in the Netherlands for cycle commuters, because of its many in-built car biases.

One point that struck me was his point that separated cycle lanes are really car infrastructure, not bike infrastructure. Amsterdam's road network is instead built to concentrate car traffic on just a few of its roads, making most other roads safe to bike along without any separated cycle lanes. Separated cycle lanes are just needed to keep cyclists safe on the busy car roads. Google Maps tends to direct cyclists to these busy roads with cycle lanes instead of along the quiet streets.

The other surprise was that GoogleMaps marks the width of the roads on its maps proportional to the volume of car traffic, which means that some of the busiest streets for cyclists and pedestrians in the Netherlands are barely visible compared with nearby less travelled car-accessible roads.

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-why-i-dont-use-google-maps-in-amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csHdwHTteOw

#NotJustBikes #bikes

@lightweight It occurs to me that a similar polemic could be made about AI. Cars / combustion engines have in some ways made humans faster and stronger, but have fucked up the planet in many different ways for all beings.
Even if you buy the argument that AI is some sort of multiplier of human capability*, its multitudinous harms are fucking things up physically, informationally, & financially.

* I mostly don't.