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In the uncounted thousands of hours of driving on the freeway in my life thus far, I've observed: * Drivers will improperly idle in a lane they feel safe in, r
by mjevans 10y ago
In the uncounted thousands of hours of driving on the freeway in my life thus far, I've observed:
* Drivers will improperly idle in a lane they feel safe in, refusing to keep right except to pass (this is actually state law where I live).
* Any deviation from a straight, flat, roadway (corners, hills, dips, anything) will cause the flow to slow; even when you can proxy the status of the roadway in front by the tail-lights of all the lanes of cars who /can/ see.
* Apparently no 'big' city anywhere balances jobs and housing. Cities too small to balance anything are also generally too small to notice the issue. (I say this because it seems like everyone is economically incentivized to drive as far as they can possibly stand from work for the cheapest housing; clearly there isn't enough housing near jobs to keep those costs competitively low.)
- tbihl 10y agoOn your first point, that's the norm in my driving (most of both US coasts.) I've sometimes wondered what the saturation level is where the left lane should just be another lane to increase steady state flow rate. I guess it's when the lane becomes too crowded to cycle properly. On your second point, I've always just assumed that that was a tall car thing because I figured they probably get more uncomfortable cornering. The same way I probably seem irrational when I speed around pickup trucks: they probably fail to recognize that their driving in front of me is like putting a wall in my face (and unlike semi trucks the drivers are no better than the rest of the people on the road.) On your third point, the US has baked in too many policies that are prohibitive to sensible development patterns. The implicit subsidies for low density living and the federally insured mortgage cone to mind as two of the worst.