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Depends. Bigger gaps mean the traffic jam will get better faster since it reduces the stop and go. Ofc the gaps need to be reasonable but the people driving bumper to bumper make it even worse
Every time you touch the brakes on a highway, you risk fucking up the flow for countless others behind you.
If everyone followed the one rule "keep as much space in front of me to the next car, as there is behind me to the next car, at all times" it would do the most to alleviate most traffic jams.
I feel so vindicated
this is the right way.
Sure....and if you were the 18 wheeler, you would give the proper stopping distance to the car in front of you, but it would be up to the person behind you to make sure they give you the same birth from behind. If they are on your (the 18 wheelers) ass, they would be causing traffic.
This isn't meant to be a license to speed up it someone is riding your ass, it's a rule that if EVERYONE followed, it would dramatically cut traffic jams.