eli5: would adding more lanes to a freeway/busy street really ease congestion or would you still get bottlenecks?

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I mean theoretically adding a lane or two should allow more cars to flow through, or would bad drivers still cause bottlenecks/gridlock despite the added capacity?

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I imagined a world that had small automous Smart Buses that would arrive at door fronts on demand, and work the neighborhoods picking up passengers and then travel to and swoop into the back of larger Road Chains that form on major thoroughfares where the small buses would exchange riders and peal back off into neighborhoods while the Road Chains split apart and sent some buses onto the freeway to hook up with and feed and off load the fast moving FreeWay Chains and
(let me catch my breath)
while other Thoroughfare Chains worked the innercirty routes.

The whole assembly of moving segments would be full of bench seats and walk ways and the passengers would have to scamper from bus to bus which joined in and then split off the Main Chains.

Smartphones would make this all possible and the passengers would get live data showing which compartment to move to next.

It’d be a never ending conveyor of people moving, modeled on our veins and arteries which are branching off, exchanging fresh blood, returning old blood back the to heart and lungs… over and over.

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