Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by tjic on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @02:21PM (#785368)

When I accidentally end up on Rt 128 at rush hour, I do this.

(I note that I was on a mailing list with a bunch of relatively smart people once, and I mentioned what I did - and even among the smart folks there was a lot of outrage because I was driving "wrong" or "stupidly".

That reaction contributed to me leaving the list shortly thereafter. )

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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by cema on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @02:44PM (#785443)

How happy I am to live (and work) at the portion of Rt 128 which is separate from I-95!

But every time I go down to Boston, or far away to other urban areas, I can never keep the distance that I want because someone would certainly cut in. So I increase the distance again, to avoid tailgating, then another guy gets in between us, etc, etc. And so we have a peloton of cars moving at 65+ mph a few meters away from each other. Not too pretty.

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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by apotheon on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @03:53PM (#785617)

Nice use of "peloton".

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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by Mintz on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @02:46PM (#785450)

Unfortunately (and unintuitively), a person's intelligence doesn't directly translate to the type of driver they are. That's a perfect example. Shame.

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