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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: clogged traffic and other stories
Message-ID: <488@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 11:11:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 11:11:14 1983
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I often try to damp out oscillations in traffic, although you can't afford
to get TOO far behind the car ahead or someone from an adjacent lane will
barge into the gap, figuring that your lane is going faster.
I've occasionally noticed someone in front of me trying to smooth out the
speed variations, and I appreciate it.  It makes it easier on me, and
means that if someone up ahead has a fender-bender, that extra-large gap
between cars means that all of us behind the person damping the oscillations
have a better chance of not being involved in a chain collision.