Drivers may feel powerless when they encounter a traffic jam. But a growing body of research suggests individual drivers can have an impact helping to clear up jams around them and preventing them before they form. William Beatty an electrical engineer in Seattle is a proponent of traffic busting techniques after spending years as a road rage or behind the wheel he's become convinced that jams can be avoided simply by one driver leaving a large gap in front of his or her car. Yes you have to slow to perform of the effort but that speeds the highway up MIDI says leaving space allows other drivers to move freely helping prevent a bottleneck when someone needs to exit as well as in areas where lanes merge by letting people merge in early. They're not having to go way down to the end and fight their way in which is the entire reason for that. Jam Beatty has a term for situations where traffic starts and stops for no apparent reason. He calls these situations traffic waves. Traffic waves could be dissipated. He says if more drivers kept an even speed instead of rushing ahead to fill in gaps when the space between cars opens up rushing and heads. Feels like it's faster but then you over break and don't notice that happening and if everybody does it everybody rushes into the gap and then over breaks and pack close together and the highway stops except for this one leaves and this one we use in this one we use many states have enacted traffic control tools based on principles similar to. Beaty's here on a highway north of Seattle a stop-and-go light directs vehicles that need to merge onto a freeway. You can get huge traffic jams which otherwise wouldn't be there so this red light red and green light letting in traffic at a slow verbal from the entrance prevents a burst from triggering a GM. Some states have initiatives to encourage drivers to merge more efficiently zipper merge rolls direct drivers to let other drivers in ahead of them so that merging can continue smoothly especially when roads are congested.

Zipper merge is best used when traffic is heavy and things start slow down. I still don't think it's fair for people to cut to the front of the line but you know if you have two lanes coming up to that merge then there's no long line cut in front of is there Oh while tailgaters can also cause traffic to back up Beatty says it's not those drivers tapping their brakes that causes the problem. What's really causing the waves tapping the gas pedal because of a big space opens up ahead of you. It's up to you whether you rush into it or just keep up your smooth average flow.