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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by baldfat on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:23AM (#15190752)
Your part of the problem. https://phys.org/news/2007-12-traffic-mystery-mathematicians...

Mathematics has shown that each time a brake light flashes it forms a wave that miles behind causes total stoppage because for 2 minutes people hit their brakes lightly slowing down with each person behind slowing a little bit more.

Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by Jtsummers on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:05PM (#15193086)
I touch the brakes only when I'm slowing down, but not necessarily to cause me to slow down. And I only do that when people are following too closely behind me.

I've been rear-ended by people following too closely who failed to recognize that I was slowing in time to slow themselves down. I'd rather be pragmatic and warn them off before an accident occurs.

By "will be slowing" I mean: I have removed my foot from the throttle or stopped cruise control but my vehicle has not started to appreciable slow yet.