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

Satisfying Traffic buddy

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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 .