Why does traffic on interstates ever come to a stop?

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Are people that idiotic that they cannot merge on the interstate with out screwing up traffic?

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yes

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Are people that idiotic

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Traffic is designed for half-blind old people with horrible reaction times to be able to drive safely.

Traffic engineers are still overestimating the average person's ability, unfortunately.

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Are people that idiotic that they cannot merge on the interstate with out screwing up traffic?

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OTR trucker here, yes. I'm one of the good guys that stays to the right, but it gets absolutely annoying dealing with people merging onto an interstate at 35 mph when they've spent the entire time on the 1/2 mile ramp playing on their phones. Theyll get alongside a 70' long truck and freak out because I cant merge left so they can have the lane to merge in, which usually results in them slamming on their brakes and going to a near stop at the end of the ramp or flooring the pedal to come flying up my blind spot to cut me off.

Its infuriating. Use the ramps to get up to speed, folks.

ETA. If you're in the right lane cruising at 70 and a merge ramp comes up on your right side, dont slow down to 40 mph to let them in!!!

I live in Atlanta.

When does traffic on the interstates here ever Not come to a stop?

Orientals, women, retards, people on phones or driving junks that can’t go normal highway speed. It’s maddening. I swear the whole city of Houston shuts down whenever someone merges.

The worst is Westpark Tollway. It’s a freeway with few merges and few exits, and yet somehow people can’t go in a straight line. Most mornings there’s a traffic pileup due to idiots brake checking before exiting the tollway.

I’m getting pissed just thinking about it.

Do you ever post and drive?

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I live in Atlanta.

When does traffic on the interstates here ever Not come to a stop?

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The most frustrating part of it in ATL is when you're creeping along for 25-35 minutes and expect some horrific wreck or something when you reach the point where traffic is clearing and there's...nothing. Traffic just magically clears. No tow trucks. No cops. No bumpers lying on the roadway. There's just this magic point in the road where the congestion clears.

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trucker here, yes. I'm one of the good guys that stays to the right,

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Doing God’s work.

Speeders

Because one tractor trailer gets in the left lane of a 2 lane interstate and tries to pass another trucker and ends up riding side by side for 20 miles at 45 mph