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Hot tip: if your bumper to bumper during congestion or construction periods. You need to have at least 2-3 (minimum 1) car spaces between you and the car/truck in front of you. This way you’ll maintain a steady speed (maybe btwn 2-9 mph) rather than coming to complete halt every stretch.
That just invites people to keep pulling in front of you, and now you're driving slowly while the lane in front of you is moving faster, and you've become the traffic jam.
Just like like my comment - you got hooked for no reason. The congestion is already there why are you gonna pile up.. on a queue..
You try to keep 3 car spaces in front of you. Someone pulls in front of you, so now there's only 2 spaces. So when traffic starts moving again, you stay still and wait for there to be 3 spaces. Then somebody pulls in front of you, so there's only 2 spaces in front of you, so you stop and wait for there to be 3 spaces in front of you....
Everybody behind you is going slower now because you won't match the speed of traffic.
(Depends are you in stretches of congestion or are is it all clear?) Okay what’s the point if there traffic ahead. You’re gonna speed up to get up to that car who jumped in the lane to come to complete stop? I see various types of stop gaps in 30 mi stretches and seen phantom stops for reason (or ppl on their cell phones¿) My friend, no disrespect but I’d like to keep steady speed (albeit it’s 2 or 5mph) than come up to a cars rear bumper and sniff their exhaust pipe.
It's not about making sure I'm close. It's about not increasing the traffic issues.
If you're working so hard to keep multiple car-lengths of distance in congested traffic, you're required to travel slower than traffic. The lane you're in travels more slowly for anyone behind you.
Yeah, people in the next lane over can pull in front of you and relieve traffic in that lane, but that just results in more lane switching in front of and behind you, leading to more fender benders.
Even hotter tip: on a highway, if the line on your right is free, switch to it. Left line(s) is only for overtaking.
Once drivers learn this simple rule, speed limits can be lifted on certain highway parts so whoever wants to go faster now can fulfill their desire.
Edit: I did check few stats about fatal car accidents. I am very surprised that Germany has many road sections without a speed limit and is #15 on the least fatal car accident country, while US is #114. In fact, Germany's fatality rate on the road been steadily decreasing since 1970s with a slight increase at 1991-1992.
Funny how the country that has no speed limits and mostly 3 lines per direction roads is one of the safest countries to drive in. US should take notes.
Yep. Tailgating causes fullstops.
Hot take:
No matter how good or crap you think the traffic laws are in your place are, the best bet is to follow them because if you don't you will likely have to pay a lot of money that you probably don't have to just throw away. Speed limits are limits, meaning maximums, merging should go like a zipper, yielding to traffic already up to speed is safest, driving without substances impairing your body is safest.
Its quite simple but a lot of people think they should be allowed to rebel against the laws and get away with doing whatever they want because the rules shouldn't apply to them specifically.
Literally the first 2 posts as I opened the app
These 'zipper merge' vs 'early merge' arguments are really the worst. At the same time, the lack of consensus fully explains why merge zones like that are such a mess.
I remember driving through OK, and the state law is “early merge.” I thought it was all bullshit, buuut they have studies 1 year after they implemented it that it actually cut down on traffic somehow. I still believe the late zipper merge is better. Use the whole road until you can’t!
Its funny that 102 comments will lead to meta reaction posts here in the fediverse
It's strange, my coworker said the roads were really crazy last night. First light i tunred at, left turn by the way, with green arow, dude ran the red and almost hit me. Is it something in the water?
I think it’s a barometer for the overall mental health climate. We’re any combination of overworked, broke, tired, we got news organizations trying to keep us mad at each other all the time…and then we get on the road where it’s easy to pretend those other metal boxes aren’t filled with human beings.
I’m not above it. I’ve participated in my fair share of road rage parties. And I don’t have any solutions, just observations and memes. That’s all I got.
It's deeper than that.
People have been doing this since cars became fast. There's something in our brains that automatically turns driving into a battle.
Nah, it's not just driving cars - I've seen the same happen with shopping carts in the grocery store.
This is every day where I live. It’s madness. Otherwise, the place is paradise. Beautiful area. People are great here. Until you get them into a car. Then they are inattentive, pushy, and unsafe. People die every single year. Kids on bikes get plowed over. It’s insane.
At a 4-way intersection, if I stop around the same time as a car to my right I always yield to them according to the “right hand rule” of right-of-way. But everyone else wants to go only by “who reached the line first” and they want to time it down to the millisecond. And guess what: they always, always determine that they arrived first.
Funny how that works. They’ve changed the rule from “right of way goes to whoever arrived first, defer to car on your right when in doubt” to “it’s always my turn.”
Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.
What discussion? Zipper merge is a well defined technique.
More like half the people know how to zipper merge and the other half try to justify merging a mile early and getting angry when people pass them and zipper merge properly.
Let pedestrians and cyclists go first. Scramble walk is okay and sjould be encouraged
If there's heavy traffic in your city and private cars are still preferable to public transport, your infrastructure is shit and you should go pester your politicians about it
What do I do if the public transit is pretty good and the city is walkable, but all the jobs are in office parks 40 minutes out of town?
Pester your politicians that they forgot a part of the walkable city. Either a walkable workplace or work from home.
increasing FB type paranoia
This post was sending me, none of yal know how to drive like a standard human.
Be. The. Sunshine.
If we didn't have to drive everywhere, we could eliminate these arguments 🤷♂️
The clear solution is to park on the tracks inside a light rail station.
Edit: post context
GO AS FAST AS POSSIBLE DON'T STOP DON'T YIELD ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
I know posts like that don't actually help, but the people on the road can't hear me when I yell at them for doing shit wrong and I need to get it out of my system.
God damnit , now I gotta go watch police academy 1-765 now
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?