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Comment by vova_hn2

2 hours ago

> Is it because the criteria is wait time not travel time?

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to optimize wait time instead of total time from pressing the button to reaching destination.

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kadoban  44 minutes ago

Human psychology might allow other reasonable criteria even if perfectly rational choice is just total time to destination.

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