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Old 07-31-2013, 01:10 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie View Post
You can cancel out traffic waves by not being a moving roadblock. Sometimes going faster than your optimum speed is best overall.
Back during the gas shortages of the 1970's some police forces came up with the brilliant idea of having three police cars drive side by side along a three lane interstate highway at 55 MPH, to impede the flow of traffic and enforce the then national 55 MPH AKA "double nickles" speed limit.

They had to abandon the idea of doing a moving roadblock. Why? Because they discovered that it was causing too many accidents.