This is pretty amazing. One guy was brave enough to experiment with driving more slowly than everyone around, and started documenting the effects. He discovered that he can erase traffic jams by driving into them slowly and maintaining a constant speed. This way, everyone behind him also drives at a constant speed, not having to do that annyoing stop-and-go dance.
The entire description is at http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html. It's long, but very thought provoking.
It makes perfect sense. He even helpfully added some animation here (do You prefer to be driving in the left animation, or the right animation?).
As it turns out, Inspiring stories happen everywhere...
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