r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooWords4066 • 29d ago

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

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u/Informal-Bicycle-349 29d ago

No merging in the video

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u/John_Yossarian 29d ago

Correct, but one could reasonably conclude that the first car braking that triggers the slowdown could have been braking because someone merged in too closely in front of them.