Ok let me try and make this make sense; when driving on the motorway/highway, why does traffic come to a slow or stop at some points and then speed up (with no obstructions/traffic lights etc) and flow freely with no change in the road or conditions?
If it’s clear up ahead, why do cars slow down or stop when nothing is blocking them in the distance? It’s like it slows down for no reason then just regains speed and traffic flows fine. Drives me insane
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Sometimes there are reasons but they aren’t so obvious at first…
– There’s the “cascade of braking” thing that a bunch of people have already described pretty well.
– There’s sun glare delays… driving west on a east/west road at sunset and people are slowing down because they can’t see very well and don’t understand that sunglasses exist.
– There’s bad road design, which you might not recognize unless you’re very familiar with the area. For example… there’s one spot near where I live where the traffic goes from five or six lanes of highway down to two in the space of about a half mile. There’s almost always traffic in that spot, but depending on where you’re coming from the reason might not be obvious.
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