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• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate to break it to you, but you have to merge before the lane closes. If it’s 20 feet or 200 feet, you’re still merging before the lane is closed.

  Guess how fast you eat up hundreds of feet at highway speeds? In seconds.

  If you want traffic to stay at highway speeds, you ALWAYS merge before you HAVE to leave your lane.

  It’s the same principle with on ramps. The people racing up an on-ramp just to wedge into slower trafdic are helping no one.

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    zipper gif

    I’d you’re talking about doing it at 60 you can still use both lanes as long as you aren’t following the car in front of you dangerously close there’ll already be enough room to merge. Cutting to one lane early is like people who don’t use the on ramp to accelerate and slow everyone down when they merge them accelerate

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The vast majority of situations where people are making faces at the assholes sitting at the end of the closed lane is when traffic is already over-dense and going slow.

      In those situations, which are often, racing to the end of the closing lane is just being a line-cutting shithead, and has nothing to do with zipper merging. At that point, they’re literally only butting in on through-traffic.

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  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hate to break it to you but literally every other country on earth zipper merges and it’s far more efficient

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, they’re more efficient. They’re also more efficient than rushing up to the end of a closing lane and merging into an ALREADY FULL through-lane. That is NOT zipper merging. It is cutting in line. That will always, ALWAYS, reduce throughput. Period.

      You cannot cheat physics and human predictability. Rushing to the end of a closed lane WILL NEVER INCREASE THROUGHPUT. Period,

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      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        THATS WHAT ZIPPER MERGING IS YOU DUNCE

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• Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because the sign clearly says “lane closure ahead merge now.”

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, it doesn’t. It never would, because NHTSA knows that utilizing all lanes during a lane closure reduces backups. Show me a sign where it tells drivers to merge now that isn’t at the actual merge and I will eat a hat

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It does NOT reduce backups. You cannot magically increase throughput by cramming in before the bottleneck. It can reduce how physically long a backup gets, which can keep backups from growing off of the highway. Though you still cannot magically add throughput by cramming in ahead of a bottleneck. Ever. Period.

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      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can add throughput by zipper merging predictably all day long instead of every car jockeying for position and feeling entitled to block other road users from legally merging and causing all kinds of road rage based holdups though

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