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Old 06-27-2014, 02:38 PM   #19 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie View Post
jamesqf- have you ever been holding a good buffer and have some kid come screaming into it and slam on his brakes? Then he'll bop back and forth to the sides of the lane looking for holes in the other lanes. When he's finally lined up with a hole in a lane that he thinks will go faster he pops into that lane, forcing someone there to hit his brakes.
No, I don't see this much. Sure, I see people (usually middle-aged jerks in SUVs, not kids) who will pop into spaces that I consider just a decent buffer, but that usually doesn't cause braking, and certainly not the chain-reaction tailback sort.

What I do see causing this sort of chain-reaction braking are people who go slower than traffic on the on-ramps, then try to merge in to the travel lane and accelerate there.
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