Comment on Make it make sense

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, maybe I’m fooling myself but it really seems like hanging back more makes me have to do more sudden braking. Traffic seems smoothest when I’m close enough to discourage cut-ins …. Even if that means Im more at the mercy of traffic in front flowing down a bit

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You need to give even more space then so that them doing that doesnt make you slow down. People cutting in front of you also helps because those are the assholes causing the brake waves.

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have adaptive cruise with a settable car length and increasing the gap length just makes the cars behind you act more deranged.

    I’ve found the only setting that doesn’t make everyone around me fly off the handle is the lowest (one car gap) setting.

    I also drive in the diamond lane on long trips and typically have my upper speed limit set well above what the person in front of me is driving.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is actually an argument for why these features should be mandatory. Traffic is caused by humans and their silly emotions. These types of self driving features with inter-communication would erase traffic jams.

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At that point, you’re the guy doing 15 mph under the limit in the left lane.

    Please only attempt this in the right lane.

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone is doing 15+ under. We’re taking stop and go traffic. What are you talking about?

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• fleck@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why I thought that maybe it would be good to have some kind of pacing cars, e.g. operated by traffic police? I.e. when you already know or can anticipate that there is a large jam building up, you bring in one pacing car on every lane at an appropriate low speed and everyone has to adjust, so the thing you mentioned won’t happen.

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  • timik_pipik@lemy.lol ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or we could just build trains and other alternatives to cars, which would end up cheaper, faster, safer, environmentally friendly, …but we have big oil.

    (Sry, I had to)

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  • Cactopuses@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is about 2 decades old now but a bunch of people tried something sorta like a pacing car www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah, cops being on the highway is one of the big causes of traffic. Everyone slows down to the speed limit when they come up on a cop and many are too timid to pass at all. This causes a huge brake wave and fucks everything up. It’s why I don’t think speed limits should even be a thing or should at least be adjusted because most highways are so low that just about everyone ignores them (and is not harmed doing so) until law enforcement appears. If people want to go slower that’s fine but they need to keep right when they aren’t passing and everyone needs to leave plenty of space in front of them so that traffic is permeable enough that people can get to their exit without causing brake waves and absorb the “shock” when it is necessary for someone to hit their brakes.

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  • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like regular patrol cars might work like this already - who’s going to blow past a cop driving down the road?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      me, because i know what speed they’ll pull me over at and if they’re doing 20 under that, who cares

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then leave another gap. There are finite idiots in the world, and you cannot actually go backwards.

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel that

  Works for me even with cut ins, gets easier with practice I’d say! Couple interesting YouTube videos on it, one here:

  trafficwaves.org

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