Free riding
(for Zsóka)
In David Lewis' Convention he introduces coordination problems with several examples. One of these is the well known artificiality, convetionality of the traffic regulations. while everyone is driving on the same side of the road it is irrelevant which side they chose. Moreover if only a few participant chooses not to cooperate with the others and take the opposite direction than the rebels won they may be faster than the others. On the other hand if more people prefers to be rebel and go against convention total chaos is resulted.
Cyclists are constant rebels. If they participate in the traffic they can go in any direction practically and they are faster in shorter but reasonable distances (that are driven by cars for the most part in a city). So according to what is said above one would expect that universal cycling results in total chaos...but that's plainly false, that is free riding.
(for Zsóka)
In David Lewis' Convention he introduces coordination problems with several examples. One of these is the well known artificiality, convetionality of the traffic regulations. while everyone is driving on the same side of the road it is irrelevant which side they chose. Moreover if only a few participant chooses not to cooperate with the others and take the opposite direction than the rebels won they may be faster than the others. On the other hand if more people prefers to be rebel and go against convention total chaos is resulted.
Cyclists are constant rebels. If they participate in the traffic they can go in any direction practically and they are faster in shorter but reasonable distances (that are driven by cars for the most part in a city). So according to what is said above one would expect that universal cycling results in total chaos...but that's plainly false, that is free riding.