Way to go to state the obvious.
A study about traffic reveals that traffic in essence is caused by you. All those times you brake for no reason, all those times you cut others off and all those times you drive too slow create a chain of events that lead to all the back-up. It's a domino effect according mathematicians from the University of Exeter.
Coming from someone who sits in traffic daily on an average of 2 hours a day, I've seen what the study describes first hand. Just today, in relatively light traffic I was nearly side-swiped by a shitty Versa and cut off by a very slow moving early 90s Camry driven by a short fat woman in her 50s and tailgated by a Dodge Ram driven by some white-trash couple who can obviously see over my comparatively small Accord that there's no room in front of me to speed up.
This all boils down to the fact that most people truly do not know how to drive, and one prevailing dumb move I've noticed time and time again are people who aren't capable of merging into traffic smoothly. In other words, drivers slow down when changing lanes instead of speeding up for a smoother transition.
If we all just learned to drive with the flow of traffic without needlessly breaking we would have a fighting chance to ridding some of the traffic we have today.
A study about traffic reveals that traffic in essence is caused by you. All those times you brake for no reason, all those times you cut others off and all those times you drive too slow create a chain of events that lead to all the back-up. It's a domino effect according mathematicians from the University of Exeter.
Coming from someone who sits in traffic daily on an average of 2 hours a day, I've seen what the study describes first hand. Just today, in relatively light traffic I was nearly side-swiped by a shitty Versa and cut off by a very slow moving early 90s Camry driven by a short fat woman in her 50s and tailgated by a Dodge Ram driven by some white-trash couple who can obviously see over my comparatively small Accord that there's no room in front of me to speed up.
This all boils down to the fact that most people truly do not know how to drive, and one prevailing dumb move I've noticed time and time again are people who aren't capable of merging into traffic smoothly. In other words, drivers slow down when changing lanes instead of speeding up for a smoother transition.
If we all just learned to drive with the flow of traffic without needlessly breaking we would have a fighting chance to ridding some of the traffic we have today.
