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snek_boi@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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You know how fire trucks, ambulances, and cars all have flashing lights? Well, if you add up those lights, street by street, there is a single street on earth that has the most flashing lights.

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You know how fire trucks, ambulances, and cars all have flashing lights? Well, if you add up those lights, street by street, there is a single street on earth that has the most flashing lights.

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works
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    You mean that a statistic has a value that’s highest? Yes.

    • snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
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      Indeed.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    Vegas Strip, next.

  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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    Do lights on buildings count, too? If so, Fremont Street in Vegas is a strong contender.

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      The Strip has a bunch of traffic + lots of building lights. I would be curious which outnumbers the other

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        It depends on what you count as a light. If you count every LED in the screen over Fremont Street, then it undoubtedly wins.

    • snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
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      The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to have multiple categories. One of them definitely should be “Buildings count too”!

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street

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      A strong contender!

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    I can confirm that my car does not, in fact, have strobe lights. There are very few vehicles that do.

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      Oops. Thanks for pointing this out! Strobe lights are a specific kind of flashing light, and flashing lights are what I meant.

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        My point still remains. Most vehicles don’t have flashing lights either.

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          My check engine light has been flashing for weeks

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            • can@sh.itjust.works
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              Funny, but I just barely know enough about cars so for anyone who knows less than me:

              Blinking is when you worry.

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          Turn signal?

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            Damn. You got me.

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              …that’s okay; some folks drive BMWs…

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          Well ackshually… LED headlights are technically flashing lights, they just flash rapidly enough to appear static.

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    This is incredibly unsurprising. More interesting to me would be to know which street that is.

    It’s probably biased toward longer and wider streets, since they can fit more cars. Perhaps highway 401 🇨🇦 . Turn signals are probably the most numerous of the flashing lights, so highways where cars are changing lanes a lot would bump it up, e.g. if there are lots of protected lanes that begin and end at random. But overall, the biggest factors are almost certainly just length, number of lanes, and congestion.

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    I hate this but I also love it

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