If everyone zipper merges correctly. More often, half the drivers try to use the lane that’s ending to skip to the front of the line and create a bottleneck that brings traffic to a stop for half a mile…
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Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Learn what zipper merging is you fuckin potato.
Or do you want backups to take up twice as much space as they need to? It’s about efficiency. If everybody zipper merges, you still get your fucking turn.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That is the zipper merge acg.aaa.com/…/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving and both lanes should be full all the way with every other car giving way.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I know what it is, but cars in the merging lane often try to skip the one they’re supposed to give way to and merge right behind the one in front of them.
Have you ever had a zipper jam?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s faster for everyone though. While they’re using the low-traffic lane, they aren’t taking up more space in the backed-up lane. It’s the people switching early that are the assholes.
This does not apply if it’s an exit. Then they’re just driving in the wrong lane.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you mean
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That only works when people behave like civilized human beings who take their turn instead of trying to skip to the front of the line.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s the thing innit? The line should be spread across both lanes all the way up to the point where one closes.
The person who gets out into the closing lane to skip ahead probably isn’t thinking about it this much. They’re probably just an entitled asshole. But, in this case, they happen to be doing it right.
Everyone getting into the open lane early effectively closes the other lane early and pushes the congestion further back, disrupting other intersections.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t make sense
Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not beating the potato allegations.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh, well the teeth are the cars and the zipper is the merge point (lane closure)
Both lanes use all available space and take turns joining into a single lane at the merge point, minimizing congestion
Dearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1 car from the left lane, 1 car from the right lane. merging together in an alternating pattern. like the teeth in a zipper. a ‘zipper merge’ if you will.
you acting like the meme is the problem. the car wasn’t ignoring the signs, they were using all of the available space to move forward down the road before merging into the lane.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This! Also, let the motorcycle in front of you if you are at the head of the line at the light! We will be long gone before you pull your thumb out of your ass and take you foot off the brake when the light turns green
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Completely agree! I always try to be extra wary of motorcycles because they take up way less space and are far faster accelerating, while also being far more vulnerable.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lane filtering should be legal everywhere. Like you said, motorcycles accelerate quicker but also it removes the chance of them getting rear ended.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah people like this are fucking idiots. Just let the dude over it’s not going to slow you down it’s not going to stop you shit if it cost you 15 seconds oh my god what the fuck ever. People are fucking retarded when they think that they have the right to own a lane.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The thing is that selfish people trying to skip to the front of the line and cut in front of the people in the through-lane right behind another merging vehicle instead of taking their turn alternating with through-lane vehicles absolutely do create congestion which can back up a long way.
Zipper merges only work when people in the merging lane aren’t being selfish assholes and trying to do that.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thing is that’s exactly how zipper merge works. The people in the lane that’s closing should go and continue to the end of the lane if there are more people behind them they’re more people behind them. You are not entitled to your place in line there is no your place in line. There is simply traffic and you are part of that traffic. If you’re not participating nicely in that traffic you are the asshole. Plain and simple that’s how it works.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Let me put this visually for you, because you don’t seem to be getting it.
This is what zipper merges are supposed to be:
(Leading up to the merge; ignore the period):
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As you can see, each one alternates at a regular interval.
This is what happens in reality:
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The cars in the merging lane all push to the front, and try to merge in twos and threes instead of alternating like they’re suppose to.
In a zipper merge, there literally is a “your place in line.” It’s right after the guy who merges behind the car in front of you. A second or third car shouldn’t be forcing their way in there, because it’s supposed to alternate. That’s how the whole thing is supposed to work.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Right! People get so crazy impatient and entitled when they enter a vehicle.