We have all been in the traffic jams that turn out to be nothing more than the Caterpillar effect. The effect that people hitting the breaks causing other to hit the breaks. The cumulative effect is that the entire group ends up much slower or stopped for no real cause.
In heavy traffic, I try to drive as a team member. If we can all go fairly fast and not have to touch the breaks or cause others to brake, we can all get there a lot faster and safer. One of the truly impressive things while driving is a 100 cars going 65 miles an hour on a crowded 3 lane highway with everyone staying in their lane and just all happy to be moving fast enough.
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