a youtube subscriber one of the things i really enjoy about them is that you are able to take very basic concepts and explain them in an interesting and entertaining way but you're also able to take very complicated concepts of traffic engineering and traffic safety and boil them down for a general audience the truth is that many drivers will not slow down because of signs or speed limits they'll slow down either because they don't feel safe or because they're afraid of damaging their car what this means though is that we can take this subconscious driving reality and use it to our advantage by designing the street or road for the speed that we want which is exactly what traffic engineers do in civilized countries like sweden or the netherlands you worked in tech you worked in product management where does that ability come from to just explain things clearly i'm putting you on the spot i know no that that's fine actually because that was my job in product management i considered that that my job um a core part of my job for my entire career was to take highly complicated things and explain them to to non-technical people or sometimes even take business things and explain them to technical people so that is what i was good at um i don't know if i i hone that skill in product management or what but that is literally what i would do so it's interesting you'd mention it because that's what i used to say my primary job was was to explain complicated things to non-technical people um and then that certainly carries through uh to the videos i've done a lot of research in this area but i'm not an urban planner so i've learned a lot about urban planning over the years and i always felt like there were certain times where i uh would see a subject of being discussed and i felt like it just wasn't being explained properly and then i'd see it explained a different way and i'd suddenly get it and that's why after the first year of my videos which was sort of season one if you will was the reasons why we moved to the netherlands season two became okay well now there's some success on this channel i've explained why we moved to the netherlands um but what i haven't explained is all of the things that i learned about urban planning and city design that led me to the point of being able to understand this stuff one of the things that really upset me is that the desolate asphalt covered cities i had visited in the us and canada weren't always this way i was told that these cities were like this because they were designed for the car that's not true they weren't designed for the car they were bulldozed for the car i should stop us and say that we have a large truck coming through he's taking the turn very slowly the driver is even on the phone and yet okay yeah he's not going to run anyone over going as slowly as he's going squeezing by a bicycle this is the exciting play-by-play commentary our our listeners expect it is interesting to see all of this happen because there's so much nonsense that comes up whenever you have a discussion about making things removing cars in cities and this truck is have is going quite slowly through the street he's having a little bit of difficulty but it would be hell of a
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