How Not To Get Stuck In Traffic

Some tips on how to minimize traffic!
Special thanks to Toyota for supporting this video.

Written by Rachel Salt

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References/Further Reading:

Reference

Traffic jams without bottlenecks—experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam

Hierarchical Routing in Traffic Using Swarm-Intelligence

In attempt to break gridlock, Los Angeles becomes first city to synchronize every streetlight.

[ykeloy]

'Take Public Transport instead of Driving'
(10 seconds later)
'Drive this new Toyota!'

[leinadem]

the problem is people who drive slow in the passing lane and don't understand how a passing lane works. I have seen people blocking the passing lane going slower than the speed limit and staying on it. if you want to go slow move all the way to the right.

[ToxisLT]

And if you do drive slower, as instructed above, please keep to the slow lane. Thank you.

[Lawlzinator]

Buffers don't mean anything to douchebags. They'll just cut right into your lane, brake last second, and ruin whatever cushion you made for yourself. They think they're the only people on the road

[rastaewabeach]

one thing I can't stand. People going slow on the far left lane on a freeway. 😠😠😡😡😠

[DJ-lcxc]

Does anyone sit in 45 minutes of bumper to bumper traffic on the highway and then magically at one random point where all the cars just space out and there's a normal open highway again? It's so weird

[clandestino]

Toyota supporting a video encouraging people to use public transit? ... I rate it 👍👏

[mn]

Just get a tank, they'll ether get ran over by you or they'll speed off.

[alfascorpi]

Proud of myself to already keep space ahead of me in heavy traffic. I drive in a slower but steadier pace than people up front who accelerate-brake-cause a stop and than accelerate again- break etc. I am often able to remove some of the stops ahead. Cause by the time I roll in, peolpe ahead are accelerating again. I keep my steady pace and let the accelerate away from me again. The proces repeats.
Causing myself and all the people behind me just drive in the smooth steady pace without the brake stops;)

[BAP]

Slow people and trucks need to go in the slow lane. Not take up all 4 lanes.

[DodgersBrooklyn]

How to avoid traffic, the right way:
Step 1: download Waze.
Step 2: drive.

[electronicsNmore]

Easy solution, ride a bike, or if you're wealthy, fly a helicopter.

[MystikAznvr]

The video also didn't mention merging and exiting. Those are also the leading causes for traffic. Many drivers drive a few lanes in from their exit and wait until the very last second to quickly zip past a few lanes to exit (at least signal?), causing multiple lanes to slam on their brakes from the random car suddenly merging into their lane. The other cause is when people merge too fast or too slow. The role of the oncoming ramp is to catch up to traffic speed and merge in smoothly. Some people try to merge into 60mph traffic going 30mph before they try to speed up, worse, some merge at 30mph and keeps it there. Others think the oncoming ramp is a speedway and goes 100mph, zips into 60mph traffic and slams on their brakes.

Traffic is caused by people driving too slow or too fast but more often than not it's because they drive too fast.

[dolly.staples]

What is the science of tea. (green tea, black tea, camomile tea exc.) and what are their benefits. Why do they have those benefits on our bodies

[nightrider]

Left lane=fast lane middle=speed limit right=slow If people weren't too stupid to follow this simple rule traffic would be infinitely better

[JtrainMedia]

Solution: Do not get a job in the DC metro area.

[dancegurl]

Why can't the person in front just go faster

[PragmaticAntithesis]

Another idea is to replace intersections with mini-roundabouts (move anti-clockwise around the intersection's center, yield to drivers on your left when coming on to the intersection) They are 2x as efficient as traffic lights, and 1.25x better than 4-way stops. That should reduce the amount of chokeholds that cause these sudden slowdowns in the first place.

[bbbl]

I had heard about a study, maybe 5 years ago, where they found this out. Their suggestion back then was to keep your space between cars: you know, the "2 second space" rule that you are taught in driving school, which you appropriately forget once you get your license. I've been consciously trying to maintain this technique while driving on the highway ever since, and it really has some benefits. Not only does it give you enough room to react when braking, it also gives you enough room to accelerate and merge into a faster lane of traffic, if you wanted to do that too.

[MKab]

wanna hear a joke



why did the bunny eat a carrot
cause he wanted to😂





laugh or the bunny dies🐰🔫