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Is it untrue? For example, traffic waves cause traffic jams. Traffic waves could be avoided, or significantly lessened, if people left more room while driving.

• lotsofpulp 7y ago
  That only applies up to a certain density of vehicles. Due to differences in acceleration and deceleration of cars, trucks, other types of vehicles, and inclines and declines, after the number of vehicles surpasses the maximum capacity at a certain speed, the will have to slow down and speed up and slow down and speed, and there is no choice but to sit through until you get to a piece of the road that isn't congested. My point is there is no solution fixing traffic jams in most cities or rush hours. If you've been to a poorer country with lax traffic law enforcement, you will see the extreme end of the situation play out where you can pretty much model all the vehicles as a fluid as they slowly ease by each other with whatever space they can find.