Imagine you are driving on a highway and there is a traffic jam in front. The one where only several lanes are blocked and some are free to go because the road splits. Everybody goes very slowly stopping from time to time. What most people typically do in this situation - they tuck together very narrowly so that no other car can go around the rear end of the traffic jam and inject themselves closer to the splitting point. This leads to a following situation - people who missed the rear end of a traffic jam go all the way forward and inject themselves in the last moment before the split. This makes the traffic jam even worse because these injections cause the following traffic to break and stop.
Imagine now an alternative. We make a large gap in front of the car to allow people to inject themselves closer to the rear end of a traffic jam. I think this relaxes the traffic jam and allows more fluid flow of cars. Because, with a large gap, there is less braking needed.
What do you think?
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