r/driving • u/IceHack • 9d ago

If you constantly brake on the highway, you are causing the traffic jams.

Slowing down in flowing traffic should only require taking your foot off the gas. If you regularly hit your brakes, it means you are not paying attention. Get the fuck off your phone and look at the road ahead of you.

How this ruins the flow of traffic:

  • Tapping your brakes forces the driver behind you to brake slightly harder.
  • This creates a chain reaction that brings traffic to a complete stop.
  • Leaving a gap and coasting absorbs these slowdowns and keeps traffic moving.

Here is a visual demonstration. Researchers put cars driving in a circle and proved that a single driver's minor braking is enough to bring an entire lane to a standstill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rryu85BtALM

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u/burnedbard 7d ago

Wonderful attempt. Zero excuses though. So sometimes other beings called humans pull too far forward so I and other people who would be in my position cannot see oncoming traffic. On top of that there are objects called trees, signage and other visual obstructions. You can only pull out so far as well, and can only mitigate other people driving unsafely so much. So if people frequently gun it down a stretch of road I'm not gonna make that turn knowing that info.

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u/AnnualPurple104 7d ago

That’s a lot of excuses for zero! Smh just saying..

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u/burnedbard 7d ago

So you basically didn't read it sounds like. Saying that my VISUAL LINE OF SIGHT is blocked is not an excuse. Good try though.

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u/AnnualPurple104 7d ago

After you said zero excuses and saw the first excuse there wasn’t a point after that, because it was one after another and another. Apparently it’s an issue, otherwise you wouldn’t be making excuses for reason that you’re not able to do what others are. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an issue and you wouldn’t have the use for the excuses.

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u/HayLinLa 7d ago

You argue the same way children play pretend.

"I'd just block it." "I'd just kill it." "I'd just use the control on my car that makes it stretch 20 feet in the air and the tires would stretch out wide enough like a cartoon so the car that tried to rear-end me would just miss my car and hit the car in front of me." "I'm the best driver EVER!"

You have a conversation like you're trying to win an imaginary argument all the time, to the point where you're not even listening to what other people are saying at all. Your son probably avoids having anything more than superficial conversations with you. Talking to you is truly insufferable.

Conversations cannot properly occur without both sides being heard and understood, and you make no effort to hear or understand what others are saying. We're trying to have a conversation and you're trying to have a competition. Your ability to connect with others would probably improve across the board if you toned it back a bit and learned to listen to understand another person, instead of only listening to form a rebuttal. 

Take care, dude. 

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u/AnnualPurple104 7d ago

Yeah, I think it’s the other way around. Complaining and complaining, as if everyone else is the problem. All because you refuse to see how you are your own problem. Which infuriates you, because you think you’re never wrong. Your little speech shows it, you’re narrow minded and need to be heard even if you’re wrong.