Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale 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 Article-I.D.: watcgl.488 Posted: Wed Jun 15 11:11:14 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 07:11:46 EDT References: <1677@ihldt.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 8 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.