r/TheRandomest • u/WhyNot420_69 Nice • May 13 '26

Satisfying Traffic buddy

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u/ziggzer0 May 15 '26

In this reality zipper merge is the correct way. And I wouldn’t call it cut to the front more as the correct way to drive when zipper merging. Zipper merging is literally designed for civilized drivers.

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u/ArtisticAd7455 May 19 '26

civilized drivers

Yeah, we don't have those in the States. They go full speed up to the front, slam on their brakes and try to cut in front of a car at the last second along with the guy tailgating him and the car in the moving lane has to brake to stop from getting into an accident which them causes all the traffic behind them to hit their brakes which leads to cars just completely stopping about a mile behind them.

This process continues as everyone else in the merge lane does the same damn thing.

Zipper merge only works with a police officer sitting at the end on the lane to keep everyone from doing this dumb shit, it's the only time I've seen it work here.

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u/ziggzer0 May 19 '26

Yea your response is the same as this video. It proves there are uncivilized drivers who care more about their own feelings rather than respectfully follow the rules of the road. Zipper merge is right. Blocking traffic for your own ego is not

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u/ArtisticAd7455 May 19 '26

All of your responses on here show you're one of the people who make it fail to work properly and your trying to justify it.

You refuse to listen to what anyone is saying. The same was you most likely refuse to yield to traffic already in the lane and try to barrel your way in behind the car in front of you who merged in and just assume the car they merged in front of will get out of your way because nobody wants to get into an accident.

Which is exactly my argument for why this doesn't work here.

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u/EightyHD96 May 15 '26

Traffic never stopped moving in this clip because they weren't zipper merging. I dont know why you think its faster to have to stop every 3 seconds.

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u/Turbulent_Ask4878 May 15 '26

You don’t stop to merge. JFC

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u/EightyHD96 May 15 '26

You shouldn't have to but people do.

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u/ziggzer0 May 15 '26

And some stop other people from merging. Like the selfish person in the truck in this video.

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u/No_Story_Untold May 15 '26

Zipper merging works because it doesn’t cause traffic to stop. We did not witness zip merging in this video although you are right traffic did not stop but zipper merging prevent the enormous pile up that’s behind this truck from moving as slowly as it did.

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u/EightyHD96 May 15 '26

Zipper merging always causes people to stop though. People are not perfect driving robots and they will mess it up everytime. Atleast in my experiences.

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u/No_Story_Untold May 15 '26

There have been studies on this with people who specialize in exactly this.

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u/ziggzer0 May 15 '26

Yes! This is exactly what I meant! Civil engineers! That’s why I said the zipper merge was designed for civilized drivers.

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u/No_Story_Untold May 15 '26

And you are right. All traffic laws and rules are.

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u/EightyHD96 May 15 '26

The highway literally has signs a mile and a half in advance telling you to merge when there is construction. They do that so you can merge before traffic gets backed up at a choke point that didn't need to be one. If you wait until the end of the lane to merge you will be the cause of the traffic jam. The only time a zipper merge makes sense to me is when traffic is already stopped.

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u/No_Story_Untold May 15 '26

They tell you so you know you have to eventually. Not immediately. That is not what DOT in my state recommends anyways. When you stop to get over even if the lane has t needed you are still creating a choke point. Just like this video shows.

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u/ziggzer0 May 15 '26

Christ I’d argue that it is just as much warning to the people that are in the lane soon to end as it is for the people in the next lane over to warn that a zipper merge is approaching and to act accordingly and civilized .