carbrain is “this is the fault of 3 million parallel, separated, individual actors” a lot

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    3 months ago

    I was going to reference the same video to show how an individual CAN in fact affect the flow of traffic for everyone else. One person hitting the brakes causes a chain reaction.

    okay so what if somebody has to brake because they got cut off or something

    • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      The person who changed lanes without enough space/speed caused the traffic jam.

      It’s a terrible system of transportation and we all want to get off the road as fast as possible.

    • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      The person cutting off is most likely the problem.

      They need to match speed and merge in where there is space; if you see traffic merging in to your lane, leave space for them (drop speed by ~2 kph) so you don’t have to brake.

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        3 months ago

        If your driving philosophy assumes everyone is always gonna merge safely, you’re gonna be jerking on the brakes a lot, at the very least.

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          3 months ago

          I hardly ever use my brakes on the highway, so idk how to respond to that. A lot of generalizations don’t really function anyway due to local driving cultures and infrastructure.