Breaker Breaker?
At one point in time, I was driving over 80 hours a month. I was seeing a lot of things on the road. At some point I started developing driver profiles. I’d watch them and then profile their style and work out how to avoid getting in an accident by being around them. The more cars around me, the greater chance of an accident occurring. There’s more variables, greater probability. Add time to the mix, and it gets messy. Anyhow, I developed break-profiles for drivers…
Break-is-the-opposite-of-accelerate-breaker
The foot is either on one pedal or the other. No coasting for this mob.
Sympathetic-breaker
Soon as someone in eyeshot of them breaks, even if they’re 2 cars behind in another lane, this driver breaks.
Speed-up-to-slow-down-breaker
These guys like to use the break. It’s empowering for them to use the break. They speed up, just so they can slow down again. Driving a constant speed doesn’t really work, not enough breaking.
Itchy-foot-breaker
Breaking just because they feel like it. No reason or logic needed here.
It-moves-I-break
Any change in anything sight results in breaking.
UPDATE; Stu from Hear Ye! recently posted a video that displays how traffic jams ripple backwards through traffic. This relates really closely to this post. If people drove with the mentality of trying to keep/develop a flow of traffic instead of start stop, the rippling effect is terminated. When 10 cars in front of me break, I often think about ‘breaking’ the reaction chain to get things moving forwards again. Obviously safety first, and it doesn’t work with traffic lights, but it does help un-do traffic jams.
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