Pedestrian Navigation (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pedestrian Navigation

Caption

An MIT study suggests our brains are not optimized to calculate the shortest possible route when navigating on foot. In this figure, pedestrian paths are shown in red while the shortest path is in blue.

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MIT

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