A simple trick I use is to pay attention to the road from 1/4 mile up to 1 mile in front of me. When I see lots of red brake lights I ease off of the gas and coast/slow down by maybe 5 MPH or more as needed. Repeat as needed as I get closer to sea of red lights. Many times things have cleared up by the time I get to that spot. It reduces the need for hard braking while improving MPG & driver morale!
What also works is to use a 3 to 5 second following distance. If the car in front of you passes a static object like a sign, count: one-onethousand, two-onethousand, three-onethousand, etc. Whatever you count up to before your front bumper passes that object is the amount of following distance you are using. 3 seconds gives you plenty of time to react to sudden changes in their speed. And the amount of distance adjusts itself depending on how fast you're going. (for example having a 1/4 mile following distance in a 30mph zone is probably overkill)
@@zeroangelmk1 I tend to leave a lot of room in town (apart from getting through the lights quickly where it's better to drive bumper to bumper as long as you have good throttle control). This is because if someone turns off, I don't have to slow/stop behind them.
This is why you should keep the passing lane clear. Use it only for passing and then get back over all the way. Then these traffic waves can be avoided.
Variably speed limits are not necesarily bull, I did a run down the M6 for a distance of 90 miles at a steady 55mph, I never left lane 1 and I never had to change my speed. In contrast, lane 2 was home to those with lead boots and lane 3 was packed with traffic constantly speeding up and slowing down. I arrived at the junction for the M5 at the same time as a distinctive car that passed me in lane 3 over 2 hours previous.
This is why you should keep the passing lane clear. Use it only for passing and then get back over all the way. Then these traffic waves can be avoided. Variable speed limit is BS too.
compound this by the idiots who can't stay in their lanes and want to hug your ass and have to see who's pulled over because they're gonna get out of the car and do squat and you got rush hour.
I consider myself a pretty good driver but much less so when i'm late and in a traffic jam. I do everything you're not supposed to do but will remember for the future!
Just one of those drivers in the circle could have pulled the jam apart by travelling slower in the fast section of the circle. Just drive at the average speed of the WHOLE circle, not just those in front of you, and the people behind you will be forced to go the same speed. When you get around to the jam again, it'll evaporate because there will be less people going in than coming out. And when everyone's out, there'll be no jam.
People also slow down because they cannot see far enough ahead, even if they can see far enough to safely stop if anything out of view happens. And many get to the end of a jam caused by an accident and just keep driving slow, despite wide open spaces ahead of them.
To figure out what causes those traffic jams, I'm going to MAKE one. So.. you know what causes them and you're going to demonstrate, and leave us in the dark until then. Right, internet education.
A simple trick I use is to pay attention to the road from 1/4 mile up to 1 mile in front of me. When I see lots of red brake lights I ease off of the gas and coast/slow down by maybe 5 MPH or more as needed. Repeat as needed as I get closer to sea of red lights. Many times things have cleared up by the time I get to that spot. It reduces the need for hard braking while improving MPG & driver morale!
What also works is to use a 3 to 5 second following distance. If the car in front of you passes a static object like a sign, count: one-onethousand, two-onethousand, three-onethousand, etc. Whatever you count up to before your front bumper passes that object is the amount of following distance you are using. 3 seconds gives you plenty of time to react to sudden changes in their speed. And the amount of distance adjusts itself depending on how fast you're going. (for example having a 1/4 mile following distance in a 30mph zone is probably overkill)
@@zeroangelmk1 I tend to leave a lot of room in town (apart from getting through the lights quickly where it's better to drive bumper to bumper as long as you have good throttle control). This is because if someone turns off, I don't have to slow/stop behind them.
this is why driverless cars would be great, instant communication between vehicles
This is why you should keep the passing lane clear. Use it only for passing and then get back over all the way. Then these traffic waves can be avoided.
Variably speed limits are not necesarily bull, I did a run down the M6 for a distance of 90 miles at a steady 55mph, I never left lane 1 and I never had to change my speed. In contrast, lane 2 was home to those with lead boots and lane 3 was packed with traffic constantly speeding up and slowing down. I arrived at the junction for the M5 at the same time as a distinctive car that passed me in lane 3 over 2 hours previous.
This is why you should keep the passing lane clear. Use it only for passing and then get back over all the way. Then these traffic waves can be avoided.
Variable speed limit is BS too.
Leave a space so traffic breathes and slow and steady wins the race
compound this by the idiots who can't stay in their lanes and want to hug your ass and have to see who's pulled over because they're gonna get out of the car and do squat and you got rush hour.
It also greatly reduces the chances of your car having an intimate moment with the one behind.
I consider myself a pretty good driver but much less so when i'm late and in a traffic jam. I do everything you're not supposed to do but will remember for the future!
Just one of those drivers in the circle could have pulled the jam apart by travelling slower in the fast section of the circle. Just drive at the average speed of the WHOLE circle, not just those in front of you, and the people behind you will be forced to go the same speed. When you get around to the jam again, it'll evaporate because there will be less people going in than coming out. And when everyone's out, there'll be no jam.
People also slow down because they cannot see far enough ahead, even if they can see far enough to safely stop if anything out of view happens.
And many get to the end of a jam caused by an accident and just keep driving slow, despite wide open spaces ahead of them.
That's often because they're too far up the back end of the vehicle in front.
TheOneLichemperor LOL!
You can't pull a traffic jam apart from the front, because there's always the idiot driving slower than you, and you can't force them to drive faster.
A missed opportunity to explore wave smoothing.
Oh god, I've been watching the One Show involuntarily
It's SO counter-intuitive. And yet, we saw what we saw. Cool vid.
nameofthepen
The Los Angeles freeway traffic jams are the worst!
Song?
Who else is here from the Transportation Planning and Engineering handout of Dr. Yoassry Elzohairy ? :D
A simple trick I use is common sense....too bad I'm the only one that has it apparently
To figure out what causes those traffic jams, I'm going to MAKE one.
So.. you know what causes them and you're going to demonstrate, and leave us in the dark until then.
Right, internet education.
Is that Keith Lemon?
aww arcade fire...
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Why marks my comment as spam?
Your search for "wavedriving" on youtube.
@postlight
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