Comment on What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023)Comments−shawabawa31yMoreover, if the reasoning above was correct, observing a queue of 22,849 cars would be essentially impossible!One of the cars in the 100,000 cars is going to be the slowest car, and when that car appears every car behind it will join that queueSo on average wouldn't you expect there to be one large queue of 50,000 cars at the back?−blackbear_1yNo because the number of cars in each simulation not fixed. There are 100,000 simulations, but each simulation runs until a car slower than the first appear.−robertlagrant1yWherever there's a bus it will create space in front of it, as it creates a queue behind it, for each stop.
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One of the cars in the 100,000 cars is going to be the slowest car, and when that car appears every car behind it will join that queue
So on average wouldn't you expect there to be one large queue of 50,000 cars at the back?
No because the number of cars in each simulation not fixed. There are 100,000 simulations, but each simulation runs until a car slower than the first appear.
Wherever there's a bus it will create space in front of it, as it creates a queue behind it, for each stop.