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 20 hours 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 15 hours ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 15 hours 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 12 hours 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 8 hours ago
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
What do you mean
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 17 hours ago
Doesn’t make sense
Banana@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Not beating the potato allegations.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 16 hours 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 15 hours 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 12 hours 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
titanicx@lemmy.zip 19 hours 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 15 hours 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.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Right! People get so crazy impatient and entitled when they enter a vehicle.