Well, This kind of throws a wrench into the hypermiling lifestyle... When 40% of people are driving like jerks, jamming risk is lowest. What are your thoughts on the subject? The original post came from Slashdot, posted below.
"Traffic jams are minimized if a significant fraction of drivers break the rules by doing things like passing on the wrong side or changing lanes too close to an intersection. The insight comes from a cellular automata study published this month in the journal Physical Review E. In effect, people who disregard the rules help to break up the groups that form as rule-followers clump together. The risk of jamming is lower if all people obey the rules than if they all disobey them, according to the analysis, but jamming risk is lowest when about 40 percent of people drive like jerks."
Slashdot Technology Story | Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams