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I noticed a similar phenomenon while driving on the highway. Vehicles on the other side of the road seem to group up and travel in clusters. Like traffic naturally oscillates into these packets?
I noticed a similar phenomenon while driving on the highway. Vehicles on the other side of the road seem to group up and travel in clusters. Like traffic naturally oscillates into these packets?
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I noticed a similar phenomenon while driving on the highway. Vehicles on the other side of the road seem to group up and travel in clusters. Like traffic naturally oscillates into these packets?
I noticed a similar phenomenon while driving on the highway. Vehicles on the other side of the road seem to group up and travel in clusters. Like traffic naturally oscillates into these packets?
The traffic waves mentioned in the other replies are not the same as clumping. People clump up while driving, even on the emptiest of highways, because they are bad drivers. This was happening long before automatic braking, but that has made it more common.
I noticed a similar phenomenon while driving on the highway. Vehicles on the other side of the road seem to group up and travel in clusters. Like traffic naturally oscillates into these packets?
This is a well known phenomenon in traffic engineering and can be modeled with e.g. fluid dynamics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave
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The traffic waves mentioned in the other replies are not the same as clumping. People clump up while driving, even on the emptiest of highways, because they are bad drivers. This was happening long before automatic braking, but that has made it more common.
How is clumping indicative of bad driving?
A good driver will first notice they are in an unnecessary clump, and a bad driver probably won't.
A good driver will try to minimize the the time they spend relatively motionless to other cars (other than behind them at a safe follow distance). A bad driver either doesn't realize as in the previous point, doesn't care, or actually prefers it as some kind of crutch. Sometimes the leader of the clump ends up that way because they will speed up whenever those behind them try to pass. Sometimes the rear of the pack is a driving zombie who will close any distance between them and the car in front, but will never choose to pass. And so on...
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The traffic waves mentioned in the other replies are not the same as clumping. People clump up while driving, even on the emptiest of highways, because they are bad drivers. This was happening long before automatic braking, but that has made it more common.
How is clumping indicative of bad driving?
Just to add, this paper has nice figures generally!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The traffic waves mentioned in the other replies are not the same as clumping. People clump up while driving, even on the emptiest of highways, because they are bad drivers. This was happening long before automatic braking, but that has made it more common.
How is clumping indicative of bad driving?