The merging lane is there for a reason. The traffic engineers intended for all of that space to be used.
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this is 100% correct, it’s science, there are all kinds of studies showing this.
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To the Prius Clovis! There’s an Ref! error in the spreadsheet!
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Not by every car and it’s never designed for the future growth. In my city, they spent approximately 5 years upgrading a system from a two lane highway with stoplights in an area that now has a major interchange that is exceptionally well done on the side that had the most growth. It turns out they butchered the other side of the freeway that has had massive growth in the two years since the project completed. Entrances from both sides of one road cause massive unnecessary traffic jams because of people constantly misusing the merging lane that is already too short. There is still plenty of room for engineers to fix this easily and nothing is happening.
Trust me when I tell you in a city like L.A. that a-holes taking advantage of merging situations cause a whole lot of the traffic jams. The worst interchange in L.A. is the 5 South/60/10 interchange. It is one of the worst designed interchanges I’ve ever seen. I have spent countless hours in traffic jams because of people who don’t know where they’re going despite traveling the same route every day.
The answer to just about everything is “it depends”.
A good zipper merge depends on people picking the best opening, which may or may not be at the end of the lane.
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Florida is lousy with teslas in general, including that ridiculous “truck.” No idea where these people are charging them, at home I guess.
LA has the best drivers and the only ones in the USA I’ve seen who are often capable of good merging. Head and shoulders above Northern California and the drivers from rural areas have no idea even how to handle simple situations with two cars on rural roads.
(I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of miles on LA freeways and at least a hundred thousand miles outside LA)
That is so…sad
My wife well actually-ed me on this and pulled up a white paper to show me because I thought it was rude to merge at the last possible time.
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Imagine someone who thinks city driving is when they go into Prescott, Arizona being teleported into this interchange.
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I think Tesla’s fortunes are tied to stationary battery storage and lithium access. Car business seems like it could fail.
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Has this replaced tipping as the Internet’s most contentious/least solvable argument?
Dunno if true, but I’ve wondered about it. Hopefully it’s not true and they can fail.
I could definitely see them failing in the residential energy storage market though. They are the biggest player now, but they are terrible at customer service, have a bad restrictive distribution model, and are facing more and more good competition.
There is a book called traffic. It makes a strong case that people are totally backwards with what they think is good etiquette in terms of merging etc. it makes a strong case people need to be far more aggressive and take up all available space. That would reduce traffic jams a lot.
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I’m sure this is a good joke but I don’t get it.
I don’t even know what to say here. I guess it’s possible for that to be true while also LA is one of the worst places to regularly drive. A place with little traffic but terrible drivers is probably better than monumental traffic with great drivers. With that said, LA drivers may be relatively good on freeways but the city driving is a complete shitshow.
What a sad state of affairs other places must be if we have the best drivers.
There may be a “correct” way to do many things on the road, but we live in a world where four-way stops are just too much for most people to handle. So the laws of the jungle will prevail.
Nm. I was playing on the idea that you would be consulting on site and then have an emergency to respond to… Ah swing and a miss.
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Driving is harder in LA than any non-big city by a lot. Most rural drivers would just cause trouble on the freeway here. And other city drivers? For sure LA driver average is better than the Bay Area. I have decades here with just tons of driving and more than a decade there.
Other places? NYC? I’ve driven there a bit and it’s gotten better, but all that stupid honking for no reason?
In a few places in the US and many places outside the US, drivers are too aggressive. In most places in the US, drivers are too passive (like waving you on when that’s just causing a slowdown). LA is the best at moving cars along… far from perfect, but better than anywhere else I’ve driven.
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Benecio del Toro was great in that
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