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[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 22 points 17 hours ago

3 fucking seconds

The answer is a simple 3 second gap.

That's it, just 3-mississippi (or 3-onethousand) seconds behind the car in front of you and most of the avoidable jams go away.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 19 points 16 hours ago

If you do that, someone will move into the gap. If someone moves into the gap you can slow down to make another gap to them, but then someone else will drive into that gap. I don't know of any major city where you can maintain a 3 second gap during rush hour.

Even worse, if you ever brake to try to create a gap, you're likely to cause a traffic jam behind you.

Sure, if everybody did follow the suggestion and allowed a 3 second gap you wouldn't have traffic jams, but that's just not human nature, apparently.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago

Teach people to drive on the right lane unless they want to overtake somebody. Whoever overtakes you on the left won't drive into the gap because they also want to overtake whoever is driving in front of you.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

It's too late to teach the entire population how to drive differently now.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

You attribute an uneducated, uncivil approach to human nature, but I have been in human queues around the world, and they vary hugely based on cultural and social differences.

What you think is human nature seems to actually be driving culture in your region.

Yesterday I had a swasticar driver actually let me in on a disorderly merge. I was amazed, it was a first. Clue: nothing about Hondas changes people to be better. Tesla and BMW drivers are just shittier at sharing. This is culturally allowed.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You're totally right. It's a social/culture issue. You doing this on your own isn't going to do shit. Everyone has to miraculously decide to come together to solve the problem with no one taking advantage. It's the same reason we can't do anything about climate change.

Edit: I realize this came off as extremely dismissive about climate change. I still think we should do what we can to, at the very least, reduce effects. It was more just a realistic take of why I think we're all fucked. I still avoid eating meat, single use garbage, and other wasteful shit, don't get me wrong.

Can anyone tell me why this is being downvoted? I don't really care about downvotes, Im more just wondering how I'm wrong.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

At least with climate change, your actions can make things slightly better. It's not enough to be measurable if only one person does it, but if it's a tiny pressure in the right direction. But, if you drive in a way that's too different from how other people drive, you can actually make traffic worse or more dangerous.

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Except the person next to you or behind you gets frustrated and cuts you off and you have to hit the brakes and create a traffic pulse.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

Well yes, society functions only with cooperation. Uncivil behaviour ends with violence and dismay.

However 3s usually allows for slow adjustments which alleviate caterpillaring.

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