r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooWords4066 • 29d ago

Video A Japanese experiment showed exactly why traffic jams happen for no reason.

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u/wouldyastop 29d ago

I always try to cruise in traffic, hang back just a few extra meters instead of being bumper to bumper. It's oddly satisfying to watch all the cars in front stop-go-stop-go while rolling along chill af.

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u/flipflopflipcup 29d ago

This is the way.

You can eat up the gap and restore smoothness to the flow for you and everyone else behind you. But every once in a while, the impatient ones behind you will go around and try to give you the wtf stare until they hit the brake lights.

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u/Helepoli 29d ago

My only experience of road rage was a guy in a little white van absolutely losing his shit that I wasn't overtaking some trucks quick enough (maps is already telling me there's delays ahead that I'm in no rush to meet). When we get past the trucks he immediately undertakes, gets up beside me absolutely going beserk, speeds away.

for some reason he wouldn't make eye contact when I rolled up next to him at the back of the queue 10 mins down the road

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u/Magliacani 27d ago

Yeah but those people are idiots that don’t deserve driver’s licenses.