syrinx

because you'll go a long way on the road before you get a little courtesy, I always say...now, researchers say we'd all benefit from showing a little courtesy at the on-ramp and letting folks merge in smoothly...in other words, if everybody else would just be like me, we'd all be better off.
On a related topic, Stop and go traffic also occurs because cars are too close together and people brake to maintain an appropriate distance between cars, and this causes a ripple effect through the traffic on a road, until it causes traffic to come to a standstill if the amount of autos has reached a tipping point. ...And we all know that the reason this happens is because some folks drive well over the speed limit until they get blocked by folks they can't pass, and then they suddenly pull in front of people, causing them to brake, ...
on a somewhat related topic we find that some folks are creatures of habit who follow the regular commuter route every day without fail, while some are willing to take adventures along the back roads of life to see if they can't get to the same destination with a different scenery than a freeway jammed bumper to bumper with stop and go automobile traffic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/.htm

tags: usability traffic humanfactors politeness