I mean they aren't increasing the KSI rate, so I disagree with that position. They may be assholes, or maybe they have a loved one dying in the hospital and are trying to get there before they die?
Agreed! Though the book says multiple studies find people who leave 2 seconds or more are more likely to rear end someone. While the studies didn't identify why it was hypothesized people who most often leave 2 seconds practice distracted driving. I know the last time I was rear ended my rear dash cam clearly showed he has 200+ feet and didn't look up from his phone until right before he hit me.
I try to be a patient and understanding person, and I hope that person stubs their toe, and right as it's about to heal they stub it again, and on and on until death.
I read this wrong... Let me see if I can find one.
This gives you an idea. Nothing special about the lane, it's like a lane anywhere else. We just overall merge early and at random distances causing chaos.
Traffic (the book) says most Americans merge into traffic wrong when lanes reduce (from say 3 lanes to 2 lanes for example.)
The right way is waiting until you are at the very end of the lane that's reducing. When that happens up to 60% more cars per hour get through the bottle neck in heavy traffic and accidents resulting in killed or serious injury are reduced by up to 80%.
Bottom line having multiple entry points in a queue with multiple slow down points due to the multiple entry points is the cause of the reduced performance with the way most Americans do it.
I don't see that at all, another comment talks about not everybody being able to see everything. I changed on two apps and a laptop and I have no cheese hands...
I mean they aren't increasing the KSI rate, so I disagree with that position. They may be assholes, or maybe they have a loved one dying in the hospital and are trying to get there before they die?