#2684: Road Space Comparison explain

[Overhead views of ten segments of highway in two rows with a caption above. Each road segment has a caption and a different scenario.]

Road Space Comparison

[50 people in the bottom left of the highway, all fitting into a single lane and taking up about a fourth of the length of the road.]

50 people walking

[50 bike riders in the bottom left of the highway, extending about halfway up the road and spilling over slightly into the second-to-leftmost lane]

50 people riding bikes

[A single bus, fitting into roughly the same space as the 50 people from the first scenario]

50 people riding a bus

[33 cars, taking up the entire length of all three lanes]

50 people in 33 cars

[One long string of connected bike riders, curving slightly and extending down the entire length of the middle lane]

50 people on one tandem bicycle

[40 cars in pairs, each pair with a single person straddling the windows between them. They take up the entire highway segment and each pair extends partway from the outer lanes into the middle]

20 people driving 40 cars

[Six buses on the lines between lanes taking up the majority of the highway, 30 cars arranged in stacks across the top]

30 cars riding on 6 buses

[39 evenly-spaced hamster balls with a person inside each, taking up the majority of the highway except a space at the top]

50 people in human-sized hamster balls

[An oversized car taking up all three lanes at the bottom of the highway, with a pair of ropes and a beam attached to the front bumper. The beam is attached to 40 miniature cars in front arranged into four lines]

One giant car pulled by 40 tiny ones

[The road is bisected by a large river taking up about half of its original area, with a dock and rowboat attached to the lower shore. 50 people, 30 goats, 20 cabbages, and 10 wolves are in groups on the same side]

50 people with 30 goats, 20 cabbages, and 10 wolves.