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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.

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plyth@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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- merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s too late to teach the entire population how to drive differently now.
  
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SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You’re totally right. It’s a social/culture issue. You doing this 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.

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- merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.
  
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