<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: matthj</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=matthj</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:35:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=matthj" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by matthj in "American Equity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/economy/27view.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/economy/27view.ht...</a></p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Waze has at least two incentives not to provide socially optimal paths. First, individuals would have an incentive to find individually-optimal paths by using a different app that provides them. Second, it seems likely that more people turn Waze on when traffic is bad, so social suboptimality might actually be good for Waze.<p>On the other hand, with socially optimal traffic patterns there would be induced demand and more drivers would come on the roads and potentially use Waze.<p>It's actually difficult to know what would make Waze better off, providing socially optimal routes or individually optimal routes.<p>Waze might also behave like many companies and ask for subsidies from local governments for turning on the social optimization, and the local governments are ill-equiped to know how much to pay.</p>
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<p>Networked traffic routing apps like Waze ought to nullify the Braess' paradox; if everyone used Waze, new roads would always have a positive marginal impact.</p>
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