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If everyone does it, then it's just clogging the side road without doing anything to improve throughput (assuming the traffic doesn't clear ahead). It's sort o
by praptak 9y ago
If everyone does it, then it's just clogging the side road without doing anything to improve throughput (assuming the traffic doesn't clear ahead).
It's sort of a modified tragedy of the commons - as long as few people do it, it rewards the side-road takers. Then the side-road saturates and nobody is any better, only the locals are worse off.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoIt just means that there will be more capacity for the length of road that has matching side roads. Couple with the buffering issue of people not starting up fast enough when they have to stop for traffic, and it is an overall gain. Think about when there are two lanes merging into one. If everyone gets over early it dramatically slows down, but if everyone merges last minute like a zipper it is not as bad.