Exit timing was linear in path length with no ceiling, so the longest route in
the shipped set animated for 17.4s and 19% of all departures ran past two
seconds. MOTION already carried exitMaxTravelMs and exitLongMaxMs for this;
nothing read them.
Below the knee nothing changes — every piece still cruises at the same speed,
which is the property the old test protected and the reason motion reads as
physical. Past it the piece accelerates rather than taking longer, approaching
a ceiling. Length is still legible: longer routes still play longer, just with
a compressing tail.
The test now states the rule it is protecting instead of "no duration cap":
constant speed below the knee, a bounded and monotone tail above it.
labs/exit-timing plays the same real route side by side, uncapped against a
candidate setting, with knee and ceiling on sliders — the numbers say 3.5s but
only watching it says whether that is right. Defaults are provisional at
2.4s / 3.2s pending that call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
