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Hi y'all,
Yes, that is what I heard on Scientific American Frontiers show, about an MIT traffic study. If everybody accelerates hard and then has to come to a stop, a lot less vehicles get through, than if everybody moved slow and steady -- ecodriving not only saves gas, it improves traffic flow.
An interesting thing happens if there is a stoppage, like an accident -- well after the stoppage is cleared out, the traffic slows down for a long while afterwards; and this "wave" moves backwards away from the place where the stoppage occurred. Sometimes it moves miles away -- these are the curious ones when you can't see anything wrong, and you shake your head and get going again.
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