The Simple Solution to Traffic

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Butterfly effect

Don't have to

Post made by the “Run ‘Em Over” gang.

@@nakulvora333 Snowball effect, actually.

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Teacher: what? How would u be late because of a chicken?
Me: *explains all the info i got from this video*

Someone should eat this damn chicken! >:(

This chicken should be punished instead of you

why did the chicken cross the road ?

trains for the win!

I have a hard time imagining Americans getting rid of their cars. They have a much stronger sense of society compared to their community. So self-driving card are the only real solution for americans

Tbh you can solve any problem by just removing everything like this comment says.

public transit is gross

@@a-e3654 the only reason why Americans don't use transit is because there's lack of it in the cities and also the cities are built wrong. Because of such a low density it's hard to build transit that will serve a lot of people and be faster than driving

Clueless. Nobody is giving up the freedom to travel anywhere at any time to ride on your magical trains.

temporary visitor okay..

i hope insurance paid his claim

In the bay area if you have half a car's space in front of you someone will change lanes into that space expecting you to brake to let them in

I do that anyway. I have no problem match the speed of the vehicle in front of me, but I do like a healthy following distance. People act as if me doing 50 behind a vehicle going 50 with more than 3 feet between us is me doing 20, so they zip around as if they saved a significant amount of time. I'm not going to let people intimidate me into tailgating

hence why you have enough distance for when traffic isn't too bad that people starts attempting to enter your lane. and as close as needed to signal other drivers that you don't fuck around so don't even try in heavier traffic. unless today's a good day or there's a merge or other equally reasonable situations.

Little did you all know that chicken was a spy for the Russian mafia that wanted to stop traffic to stop the general from getting there early so he could destroy the us military from the inside

@@ryan-ci3fz u r the quiet kid i guess😂 (no offense intended)

@@roshanantony64 none taken xD

traffic sucks more depending on what kind of person you are

@MEH Nah, that would still cause a traffic snake anyways because people would slow down to look at the dead chicken.

We should also call it a "train", it's brilliant

This is brilliant I wish more people got the joke

Hahah

What if- and here me out here- we also had dedicated areas to get on and off these, and what if, and this going to get a little crazy here, had long cars which could pick various denizens up off the street and move them around a city, and maybe even had some at the dedicated areas of the chain-cars, to help people move around in a city after arriving at said city?

Now, make sure that train runs on my exact schedule, going to my exact destinations in the same time as my car, then you'll actually entice me to ride it. If your train can't match the convenience and flexibility of my car, I'm not getting on. And you can multiply this times the millions of residents not living within 200m of a train station.

For Starbucks coffee.

@Ayah Awad same.

Because you didn't fucking cook it

@@sheerajzakir did you predict a failed book of mine...

Also known as the butterfly effect

To avoid traffic jam LOL

익명입니다 hahahaha now i get the point why McD and KFC everywhere 😅😅😅

Lol

Now i understand why my pp hard on morning

😂 😂

Exactly. It *actually* makes the road better for everybody, including drivers.

That won’t work in the United States. People around the world underestimate how large the United States really is. The distance from Paris to Moscow is 2840km. New York to LA is around 4500km.

Bikes and legs for close things, cars for far things. Very smart!

@@PokeTube of course if you're going from Paris to LA you'll need a car, theyre fine for long distances. But if you want go somewhere a few minutes away- you also need a car. You need a car just to get around the city. It's horrendous.

Dude, we're not talking about travelling between two cities but about travelling inside the city

Pedestrians? What are those?

Speed and power

Air traffic: Hello?

@@lucyhuang6840 since air is 3d, traffic is going to be extremely less likely. But never zero.

Be rich

Get a monster truck and move over the vehicles without any damage

It's not our fault, it's all them chickens crossing the road without due cause.

It's hard enough to achieve simultaneous orgasm with my partner or imaginary partner let alone getting people to drive in perfect synchronicity.

SNAKES

society in a nutshell

Bro 1.2K likes and 4 comments??? (Not including mine)

So you're genius take on it is that car traffic is caused by cars. Wow.

@@liquidmagma I'm sorry that you aren't capable of understanding my comment correctly. My take isn't genius at all, if anything it should be common sense but this video shows the opposite by displaying a solution in which cars still are the primary way of commuting.

@@RedStormArtz No, you mistake your comment for being sensical. So my ability to understand it has nothing to do with it.

Eek barba durkle, somebody's gonna get laid in college

Basically.

Or automated cars... they would communicate with each other... oh, ha! He just got to that

Ah trains, when I want the modern convenience of being dropped off 7 miles from my doorstep. Also, why pave a road in a month when you could lay down train tracks in 3 years over the same patch of space. (Unless you're China and you have no qualms in bulldozing ancient temples and 500 old villages and displacing 200,000 people)

It also would require we all follow each other at the same distance we stay at stoplights, but the thing is that most people don't drive that closely, so there is going to need to be some delay. Accelerating at the same time doesn't work. But one thing that can be done is when possible slow down earlier so that you can keep moving by the time you make it to the car that's stopped in front of you. There is no value in zooming up to a red light when you're all going to be in the same place. It's not likely you can do it at stoplights. It's more effective on freeways, but the principle's the same.

its a simple solution but its not an easy one

Or rather it’s easier said then done

It’d be easy and simple is if people were considerate and mindful of others. Sadly as a whole we’re selfish and greedy

This whole video is a complete bullshit anyway. xD traffic doesn't work like that. when I saw this example with chicken, my mind was like "has science gone too far?"

@@FlagerMiszcz that’s exactly how traffic works. Most traffic happens due to human reaction.

Also, in CGP Grey's future physics don't work anymore. How does AI allow you to turn 90 degrees at full speed without slowing down?

Now imagine this during winter with the road covered with snow and ice

No, the increasing distance between cars with increasing speed is to allow for reaction time, because at higher speeds you cover more distance quickly, so will need a greater distance between the car in front to react if they suddenly slow down. Self driving cars don't have reaction times. Instead they can communicate with each other and all slow down at the same instant negating the need for a large gap between vehicles, sort of like a train but without the links....
....oh gee I just thought of the simple solution to traffic!

@@ric4397 no. Thinking distance (the distance covered in the time from seeing an obstacle to reacting to it) is directly proportional to velocity (s=vt), but braking distance (the distance covered in the time between the brakes being pressed and the car stopping) is proportional to the square of velocity, as kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy via the brakes (E=0.5mv^2). This means that if you double velocity, you double thinking distance, but quadruple braking distance. While a self-driving car will reduce thinking distance massively, it can’t alter braking distance, which is the main reason behind the gap between cars

I assume that pedestrians and bike riders get purpose-built walkways and bikeways, as they should.

Its not the guy switching lanes fault, its the miles of cars that don't leave space in front of them to let anyone get off the highway.
You can't control who rides your bumper, you can leave space for people to exit without causing slowing.

People cut over into lanes to get on or off, if everyone's following too closely, everyone slows massively for entrance and exits.

@@carrieullrich5059 I disagree. They are as much at fault as the people being too close. If you want to get off the highway you should move to the correct lane in an appropriate amount of time so you don't have to cut someone up to get off. You should never have to bring cars around you to a stop or slow down when you're coming off at a junction. If you are then you need to modify your driving and learn to look ahead into what you need to do to get to your destination.

It already have a term: B fucking M cunter W. BMW muppets.

It's also the fault of the people who didn't react fast enough and slowly made the snake grow

i think this is gonna get popular.

@@kylaxial same lel

nO

I was actually thinking about it

Logik

The boys fans when they see the color blue:

Except unlike actual trains, the self-driving cars can act independently, taking everyone to their actual homes, instead of stopping at a station 5+km away.

@@AaronCMounts that's where you bring in efficient urban planning :)

@@emmanuel1547 are you referring to, multi-floor, stack-pack housing, where no one can own their own place because we're all living in apartments? Not looking forward to a 'neighborhood' where everyone hears everyone else's toilet flushes and **ahem** "lively discussions".

@@AaronCMounts Most walls and floors are internally soundproofed.

@@AaronCMounts If the transit network is dense enough, most of the city would be in walking distance of stations.

True it so fucked up

Very underrated!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥

And then when you try fighting for that room by scooching up just a little bit is when the front jacks on the breaks. Thanks chicago. Or when you make room for them and they have the audacity to jack on the breaks. No reason. Just to do it

Yeah that’s what really causes problems for me. I give enough room in front of me so that I’m comfortable, only for the guy next to me to pull in front of me, and if I make more room the same thing happens

Such behaviour simply isn't traced and punished enough.

A few problems with that btw....

New York shows you that subway traffic is a whole different convo…p.s Japan trains are packed

@@Alexmoral1307. not as many as with cars

But the problem is the chicken will be killed by the train 😑

They have dedicated workers that stuff people into the subway's because of how over crowded they are. It's disgusting.

Masking a corporate for profit industry (automobiles) as the emobident of freedom to go where ever and whenever is misleading you thinking what you need NEGATIVE FREEDOM , ie from something. When really it's POSITIVE FREEDOM, ie freedom for something, is what give. So if walkable cities, protected network of bike infrasture, and great public transit existed alongside car infrastructure then you free choose how to move about instead of making car infrastructure at the expense other modes of transport.
Also some car drivers are claiming a WAR ON CARS when implementing narrow streets, bike and bus lanes when it really is a WAR ON PEOPLE (WALKING, BIKING, AND TRANSIT) when we are asking for modes to provided instead of subsided auto infrastructure

Or just be a better driver

@@kingkazuma2239 0:37
This shows you exactly everything wrong with cars in a city.
This has nothing to do with driving skills.

@@kingkazuma2239 this is bait right

here too

including me

But are you trying to be a better driver tho?

İstanbul

@@bruhmoment3505 pleas go learn to read first

Underated comment.

Somehow u made that joke original, good job

To go KFC

the chicken is evil

I thought it says "to get to the other side".

of course, he hasn't stopped being american

​@@LiamC328 He lived in London when he made this.

Yeah happens every fucking time

This comment should be on top

Exactly!

I agree with you. We need back to 1700's

then you slow down to make a gap again, and boom you created a traffic

Well, CGP Grey is a teacher haha

Ideally kids in school today won't have to drive because self-driving cars will be widespread.

+gabelogan56 could just pull them out of the class

Or stop handing out driver licenses, so everyone is forced to get a self driving car.

But that would consist of actually learning something useful that will apply to your day to day life. we can't have that now can we?

I wish i was dutch

Self driving cars won't fix traffic. Providing viable, attractic alternatives to cars fixes traffic, as walking/cycling/public transit all have way better space efficiency.

solution? build more trains.

@@wren_. The problem with all mass transport is that it doesn’t start and finish where you need it or at exactly the time you need. There has to be some other compelling reason to use it, planes being the obvious example.

@@Tailspin80 The compelling reason is not being in traffic

@@Keykhosrau So unless you live right next to the bus stop or station how do you get there? We live in a normal sort of a house a couple of miles from the nearest station. Long walk, taxi ride, cycle… nothing quite as quick or convenient as climbing into the car in the drive. Traffic not much of a problem unless you live in the middle of a large city, particularly with WFH.

Exactly, same for me 🤣

JUST build self-driving cars

@@phoneticalballsack no, the issue is that cars are terribly inefficient when it comes to space. You dont need self driving cars to fix road congestion, you need neighborhoods you can walk/cycle through and loads of trains/busses. Less traffic, less noise, better for the climate and for your health (and cheaper for communities, suburbs eat tons of money for road maintenance)!

so true

i moved to a village where there are only about 20 other cars.

To be an A hole*

so the snake eats the cars instead

The chiken's revenge

JAMMMMMMM?

Maybe gasoline company ordered

Self driving cars lead to less cars. Just because a car drives itself doesn't mean I will now buy three. In fact, I will most likely ditch the second car since now I can just call for it to pick me up, and when I am done, I can now send it to pick up any other family member. In fact, I don't even need to own one since I can just timeshare with a pool of people sharing the cost. Even if the car itself costs 100k, I could chip in along with 10 family members and have personal transportation ready to go.

@@cyberlord64 I never said anything about owning multiple cars.

@@cyberlord64 Use Uber then

@@cyberlord64 would you like your car to come with pre-ordered rubbish and horrible smells? i thought the point was personal comfort? and eaxctly how are 10 of you going to a 9-5 job at the same time in one car? uh oh, i forgot to buy the eggs, got to wait 2 hours to finish my cake.

That’s because humans are nowhere near perfect so when looking for a perfect or close to solution it will never include humans.

@@frankbank8720 AI meanwhile is perfectly wrong.
AI is perfect, but it's designer isn't. If you program an AI to drive forward and not collide with cars, but there's a person in front of it, it will carry out it's program perfectly.
If a wheel falls off, it will keep driving, even if that later results in it sharply turning left the next time it slows down at a traffic crossing.
AI is perfection made by the imperfect.

@@happydemon3038 if you think at all of the possible situations that can occur and prepare the AI for all with programming, to make AI's inability to adapt unimportant, its perfection makes the performance maximum.

I heard a wonderful quote from a motorcycle instructor: "a motorcycle is a wonderful, safe piece of machinery, until you put us monkeys on it"

@@frankbank8720 And then you have forgotten the pedestrians!

imagine finding the ghost here,hi i like ur content and animations :D

ignorant friend you got there

That’s okay. He will get into an accident and be responsible for costs.

He's part of the problem

but sometimes you do need to tailgate a bit to make a dumbass realize he is going 35 in a 50 zone...

Why imagine when you can act? MWAHAHAHA

Not that its always bad drivers, sometimes its bad road planning for a while I had to travel a route which was almost all freeway but required a short (about 1-2km I think but roads have been rebuilt since then so there's no map to check) journey along what had been the old main road for the area to get from one freeway to another and you entered on the left and had to exit on the right (with 2 sets of traffic lights in between) crossing 3 lanes. There was no way to do it except to push in (which is why the roads have now been changed).

to be fair, if u live in a dense enough area and drive in it enough, u probably have without knowing. no one is a perfect driver, and though it’s ur job as a driver to minimize how often u cause traffic jams, ur gonna mess up at some point. it’s human nature to make mistakes.

That's called driving a BMW

Paris in the morning

Okay. But now these people come to your work route everyday no matter what... This increases the traffic severely and also people who came from other countries, states increase homelessness and unemployment

"They weren't."

Personally, I wouldn't want to meet 17 million people on my way to work

@@ravitejaknts Nice. You just kindly pointed it out instead of using the obnoxious "r/wooosh".

@@ravitejaknts Welp I wasnt serious lol

Isn't that exactly what he means with "always in the middle"?

Unfortunately, while your solution is reasonable, this would require people to practice the skill of "delayed gratification." Specifically, people would have to be willing to trade off a couple of seconds of faster travel up front for smoother sailing for the entire journey as a whole. And from experience, the practice of delaying instant gratification is something that a distressingly large number of people seem to struggle with immensely.

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Houston we have a solution!

I mean, if I was a chicken I'd probably do the same.

Golden!

Exactly, the Dynamite gets it

😂😂😂

but still there will be someone who will pick up the dead chicken to cook and eat it😂😂

this is actually the only right thing you can do if somebody is driving close behind you, if not you can try to hit the brakes

🤣🤣

Not mutually exclusive with this video! Manhattan and London both great public transit, and yet they both have constant traffic backups. Unless you think busy roads are better because they encourage using the train (probably at least a little true), self driving cars can coexist with public transit just fine.

iRiZelion I learn all that when I had my permit driving my pops whip

*arrest them all*

Right? 2 second rule people

Most tailgaters don't see themselves do it. Until you show them a video from a different car

How do you choose the distance you're followed by? That sounds like nonsense to me, you can only elect to follow a 2s rule when driving at speed to maintain a safe distance in front of you.

Uber too :P

Aaand nuTonomy if you are in Singapore

This is the future, there is no way around it.

Doesn't mean I have to be a part of it.

Is this.. your suicide note?

no

@@cowfat8547 yes, cars are terribly inefficient

You also now learnt that its spelt “brake” not “break”

@@HassanPoyo thank you. For finding this comment

Plus you get dinner for free
(Although if I were you.......I'd try to remove the tire Marks on it......they give a bad ambience and taste to the dish)

And what if it's a moose?

@@pdebie1982 that's why 4×4 offroading SUVs exist

The fact that this might actually be a thing

Grandpa why didn't you just teleport?

you have summoned the whole long commute gang to tell you 20 minutes is really short.

@@AAAAAA-qs1bv :0 like one of those take the train people ?

@@vishnutheetharappan7074 oh ho ho, kids, that's because they didn't invent magic yet. Back in my day, we didn't have a school called Hogwarts

I was interested and I'm 14 lol

Lego mayham same

Its better to know before you get a car so you're prepared

Same, getting my permit once my blue slip arrives

Same

Yeah but the "disgusting humans" and whatnot

Yeah, now build railroad to every shop, factory and warehouse in existence

@@benjaminparent4115 man i forgot about walking, I always drive my car into shops and factories on a daily basis

"doesn't pollute"
might I suggest a small book, 150 pages, Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt.
I like trains too, where they're able to be used effectively, but euros and socialists for some reason think they are the answer to everything. they're not, stop with the smug condescension as though you invariably know better the ways others aught to have their lives ordered for them; it's grating to see this everywhere.

@@johncounts2182 America relies on cars because extreme zoning restricts single family homes from everywhere else. If houses were integrated with some shops, bike lanes were added (separate, not painted on the side of the road), and public transport had priority over cars because it holds more people, then traffic would be fixed. Less cars = less traffic, that's the only option, and it's proven. Look at the Netherlands for example. Everyone has a better experience, including cars, as there is less traffic.

I feel like that would hurt a lot of people with uncertainty about future transportation. But also it's Singapore so I'm assuming it works ok at the very least.

Yeah, I'll take freedom. Thanks.

pedestrian bridges are already used all around the word much safer and doesn't require stopping cars to let people cross, we might be able to pull it off

Plus self driving cars have ways of detecting pedestrians, so technically they could just walk across... I think... don't quote me on that :D

@@michaeltaylor1866 It's going to take practice for pedestrians though. Imagine walking into a lane of ongoing traffic, terrifying

Would adding a few more sensors ensure that the cars detect a human crossing fairly early?

r/woooosh

I'd like self-driving trains tbh, though I'd like everyone to have their own private albeit smaller segments. Oh and let's separate the segments from each other cause people tend to have different destinations. While we're at it, let's replace the tracks with a flat surface and the wheels with say a soft compound, maybe rubber for the grip.

@@wenkoy and now you've accelerated climate change, the obesity epidemic and made it impossible for anyone who wants to walk to cross the tracks. Congratulations

@@wenkoy Yeah, I love it when my city falls for the growth ponzi scheme over and over again. Never gets old.

@@Aditya_V_R electric cars ✨✨

@@lynxrbeam8732 Trains.

TRAMS AND TROLLEYBUSES TOO!!!!

My driving teacher always told me to look at the car in front of the car i'm behind and react with them.

YESS I thought so too

that would reduce the capacity of the road, and one car cutting in would build up the stop again. and different cars have different acceleration rates that depend on many factors. this problem looks like the problem in a book called 'the goal' where statistical fluctuation and dependent events problem. it's a scientific book in the form of a novel.

@@yjas8904 You're not going pedal to metal accelerating, just the initial acceleration after a traffic light to get going again. Widening the gap works to get cars going faster, because you can start going earlier. Believe me, it works.

We must not do that to reduce the traffic lenght

You show this video here in India to try and improve driving, the first question you'll get is "what is a lane?". Bangalore traffic is nuts.

@@summushieremiasclarkson4700 lol ....come to Mumbai kid... u'll feel Bangalore traffic ain't that bad😂😂😂

@@joshuaalmeida3284 I lived in Sion for 4 years, trust me man, Bangalore is much worse now.

Woah youre the guy from the book i'm reaching

@@summushieremiasclarkson4700 Lanes ? People will ask "which is the road" while driving on footpaths

This made me choke my water 🤣🤣🤣

Rest in peace

Stop it, get some help

@@jhonx5323 it's a joke relax

Saw what was left of a deer on an on ramp today, hit multiple times.
Then saw a broken metal tripod thing right in the center of the road.
55 mph construction traffic, some doof cuts me off like insurance fraud.
I managed not to hit anything, it's not hard.

Yeah if you just stay home then there will be no cars, and thus no traffic.

The simplest solution would be for everyone to not be born.

That did not age well

@@aurabloodrose5016 this was yesterday??

The simplest solution would be if we monkey

What the heck, you love to watch people suffering 😂

@@hiragasaito9055 suffering or the behavior of fellow hoomans just like me behind the controls of a 2k+ lb hunk of metal flying down a highly populated path at 35-90mph. If every car had an aerial view driving would be much more efficient.

@@Calupp Yeah, for real😆

😂

😂😂😂

Now, separate them into their own little vehicles, so they can go to their actual destinations, several km away from the station. And let them keep their own vehicles, since they all have their own separate schedules, routes, plans and lives to live.

@@AaronCMounts sir you have invented legs

@@murrmakesstuff9269 Facepalm

Steve D Crazy flying cars

No you fools we need to merge with computers and machines and becomes cyborg Androids, obviously... Duh

OMG ♡♡♡♡♡

@@ordis2223
I can't make heads or tails of your comment.
What are you trying to say?

The fact that i just watched this movie makes it better

Yep. Leave a gap, someone cuts in, leave a gap again, someone else cuts in... It's almost like you're moving backwards after 10 cars pull that nonsense.

Exactly! You have to drove like a deranged a hole not to get cut off all the time. Drive safe and polite and you just get cut off.

And even on one lane roads: you position yourself in the middle, then the one in the back comes closer, so you accelerate to be in the middle, it repeats, and hey, you’re now tailgating.

@@JuliuszCovers solution, maintain a 2 seconds gap to the car in front, which you INCREASE to 3-4 seconds if you get tailgated from behind.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

Relaaaaatable

Relaaaaaatable

Lmaoo it's literally 5am here😂

2:13 AM, I have to wake up in 5 hours and 47 minutes fuck

Lmao

He kinda said that a little bit

Moo

Just keep swimming swimming swimming~

WHERE, IS, THE, OTHER, QUOTATION MARK????????

That’s basically it, drive like you have somewhere to be... the red light point is so real. I’m not sure what takes people so long to move their foot down. When I’m the first one at a light and it turns green I go and look back and the car behind me is like 6 car lengths back and just starting to go. Like it’s not hard, green = move ya shit.

Or, you know, you could just have every driver be in its own seperate metal box, or better yet, single box, with a single conductor in charge of how fast and in which lane the box is going.

They were once...😢

footbridges and pedestrian lanes: cool

@@JohnPaulBuce so you have to cross several bridges to buy groceries. That's a nice cardio, you just have to convince disabled and elderly people.

@@JackTheMurderer among us

@@JackTheMurderer then get a self driving disabled and elderly people, problem solved

Drive a motobike? Imean we could just make multiple public motorbike stations like bus stations that would constantly carry ppl to other side like boats.

Me too!

Me Too, on the family tree video

two thumbs up

Happens to me with comments as well.

The feeling when you want to thumb up this comment but notice you already did...

I know what you're saying, and fuck those people.

But what he was saying is that every single person did it then that wouldn't happen. Which is the reason why it won't work. The world will always have dickheads.

Pratyush Pandey then you readjust

I think it depends on where you're driving.
In LA, maintaining a safe distance is impossible, because a steady stream of cars will fill the gap.
In much of the American widest, the opposite is true.

Literally the only thing causing traffic jam in Indonesia

we have to make the street uncrossable for pedestrians to unlock the "simple solution to traffic"

You are literally everywhere

So true, so true…

Simple solution... pedestrianise every town and City and put the car park 2 miles out of town

This, if we could adjust the problem to fit our solutions, literally every solution would work

Thank you! Cars don't belong where people live

There was this chick on the other side of the road

I see what you did there

The actual joke is pretty funny. To get to the other side has a double meaning.

Or people could just use mass transit and chicken wouldn't have a problem.
But what do I know, I don't live in the US, I do have a usable mass transit. 🤷

:'(

There's truly nothing like being in a traffic jam for converting over to Thanos's cause

z beeblebrox Traffic truly makes you think things.

@@cheesecakelasagna *after Infinity War:* Jesus Christ, what lunatic thinks it's a good idea to kill an entire half of the universe?!
*later, stuck in traffic:* I mean...it's ONLY half

Thanos • No

So when you eventually do, you'll be ready.

yes

What if I never

Maybe for a reason...

I have It but I’m scared to drive lmfao

Lol

U r right

lol ur right

it is possible in metro cities but in *Dehati* regions.... not possible

@@IamDryEuropa dehati mtlb?