Where I live there is a very strong culture of politeness and kindness in driving. For instance, I often see (and do it myself) that someone has let a person in who is trying to pull out of a hard-to-leave business driveway, with no hope of reward, just out of a sense that other people have helped you out in the past so now it is your turn.
In a recent construction on my way to work they put in two lanes where there was one, which must merge within a hundred yards to get over a narrow bridge. Filling both lanes and zipping would increase the capacity at that location, no doubt. But few drivers do it. Are others worried, as I am, that it would be part of a change in the overall driving culture, normalizing cutting ahead?
That is, could zipping be a local optimization that leads to a global suboptimization, an overall decrease in how reasonable it is to drive around here?
In a recent construction on my way to work they put in two lanes where there was one, which must merge within a hundred yards to get over a narrow bridge. Filling both lanes and zipping would increase the capacity at that location, no doubt. But few drivers do it. Are others worried, as I am, that it would be part of a change in the overall driving culture, normalizing cutting ahead?
That is, could zipping be a local optimization that leads to a global suboptimization, an overall decrease in how reasonable it is to drive around here?