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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by murrayb on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:47PM (#786340)
I've been doing the same thing for some time now as well. As well as what you have observed I have observed that you really can actually hack the traffic to reduce congestion. I've seen a gap that I brought to a merge point allow 8-9 cars to move and several hundred meters of stationary traffic was able to pick up speed enough to merge, I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror.

Instead of competing to get ahead the game has changed to strategising to keep the traffic moving. It's beautiful and fun and transforms the whole driving experience, very zen.

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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by losvedir on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @07:44AM (#786981)
"I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror."

Heh, you didn't happen to learn to drive in, say, Massachusetts did you? It's called the "rear view mirror", but I've found that due to the accent, many people here in Boston have always thought it was the "review mirror".

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