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

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• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You mean that a statistic has a value that’s highest? Yes.

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indeed.

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• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do lights on buildings count, too? If so, Fremont Street in Vegas is a strong contender.

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  • H1jAcK@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A strong contender

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vegas Strip, next.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate this but I also love it

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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