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Zipper lanes.
Each person goes one after another in an orderly fashion because it gets people moving faster, but instead you get asshats that either are trying to bully people by not letting them into their lane or trying to sneak in with the person coming into the lane because gee whiz, there’s a small opening!
It makes me so mad to see people not know how a zipper lane works, literally the easiest shit in the world.
That just because the car in front of you has a momentary change of speed, you don't need to slam on your brakes. Congrats, you've caused traffic for hours
Following distance should be 1 car length for every 10mph you are travelling. 70 mph would mean 7 car lengths.
Passing doesn't save much time when the city you're in has a ton of long red lights, There's a highway I travel daily, rather short 12 mile lap. People will absoluty blast past me going 20-30 above the speed limit, and then 10 minutes later they will be right infront of me at a red light. There's no point in making your ride so much more dangerous just to shave a few seconds off your time.
I also have people pass me, merge back in, and then brake hard to turn off pretty fucking often on this commute. It's insane what people will do.
The risk undertaken to make a short trip at 20mph over the speed limit isn't worth the few minutes it might save. On paper it seems like it would save a lot but the reality of inevitable stop lights and traffic cause different results.