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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.

Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?[/quote]

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg[/quote]

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending.  Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse.  Use the lanes and then every other car.[/quote]

No one does that because they run out of lane and if people don’t let them merge then they have to STOP. which makes merging even harder.  So people merge early to have margin

[b]In general, you should merge when there are no longer any cars in front of you in your merge lane[/b] — travel in parallel with the other lane for a spell signal that you are merging and they will generally let you in within one or two cars.

Instead zipping down the empty merge past 40 cars will engender a lot of road rage and be more disruptive to the merge.

Does that traffic study model the effect of bad behavior  of one or two and how it propagates. [/quote]

WRONG!

No wonder traffic sucks around here. People don’t know how to merge.

Zipper is best method for merging: 
https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/4c/auto/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving

[i]“A 2013 study conducted in Minnesota found that the [b]zipper merge can reduce traffic backup lengths by up to 40%, alleviate congestion[/b], promote fairness by having all drivers move at a consistent speed, and decrease road rage.”[/i]

[img]https://aaa.scene7.com/is/image/aaaautoclubsouthstage/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving-infographic-may22-1?ts=1736208029993&dpr=off[/img]

Zipper is best: 
- use both lanes until the end 
- alternate politely

Don’t be a dick.

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