Ok that's one of my pet peeves now .. People who post a link to a lenghty, rather general, article as if that settles some specific point. Does Bill Beaty's article, anywhere, actually compare the two situations under discussion .. i.e. most people merge early and a few use the open lane to try and merge late, versus everyone using both lanes and merging late? What is his conclusion? Rudy Rucker did research on this too; perhaps I shall direct you to read all of Rudy Rucker's works in hope of finding out what he has discovered? > -----Original Message----- > From: something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Chris Goodwin > Sent: 21 June 2008 05:25 > To: General Wunderland.Com Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Something] driving annoyances > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Timothy Hunt wrote: > > > So I looked that list. One thing in particular struck me. > > > > "[drivers] who stay in a lane that's closing due to > construction until > > they reach the orange cones... these people really piss me off." > > > > Why? > > Bill Beaty writes about the physics of traffic: > > http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html > > Also read his Traffic Wave Experiments: > > http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html > > -- > Nöt ënöügh ümläüts > Chris Goodwin > cgoodwin@xxxxxxxxx >