This woman in New York City started creating little toy robots that could only travel in a straight line at a slow, steady pace. She put little flags on them to let people know where the robot should go. If the robot ran into something along the way, it would require a stranger's intervention to continue its trip.She set out the robots from various points A, and then went to the points B and waited. Much to her surprise, every robot arrived safely, having navigated hundreds of hurdles and turns via hundreds of nudges and redirections from hundreds of New Yorkers.
Hat tip Sully.
UPDATE:
Stan made a funny comment (in the comment section on his own blog, unfortunately) that this is a rather twisted way to send IEDs around New York City: Load one of those little buggers with a kilo of high explosive, put a flag on it for Times Square, and send it on its way. Hmm... That changes my thoughts about this experiment a little bit, doesn't it?
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