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   In article ,   
   Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Bernard Peek  wrote:   
   >   
   > > But every time a manual and   
   > > automatic traffic stream cross you lose the advantage of automated   
   > > traffic. Automated vehicles can cross a junction without either stream   
   > > needing to stop. When you throw manual drivers into the mix you need to   
   > > go back to having traffic lights.   
   >   
   > Not necessarily.  Have you ever taken a motorcycle safety course?  One   
   > of the exercises they do is to travel in a figure 8 where the riders   
   > have to alternate crossing without screwing up the flow.  No traffic   
   > lights necessary.  Perhaps we just need to train car drivers to the same   
   > standards.   
      
      
   Here in New Zealand (no doubt stolen from somewhere else) there's a   
   slogan they use to encourage drivers to enter the motorway sensibly:   
   "Merge like a zip"  (i.e. the car coming up the on-ramp merges into a   
   gap between cars already on the motorway) ... unfortunately most   
   drivers use the "merge like a race track with a "me first" attitude.   
   :-(   
      
   It's the same brainless selfish idiocy that you also see on the   
   motorway and normal roads where some moron thinks they are being clever   
   zig-zagging up the lanes trying to get ahead of everyone else ... when   
   in reality they're adding to the congestion by trying to push in and   
   almost always end up only a couple of cars ahead or I pass them on a   
   green turn traffic light while they're waiting in the red lane.  :-\   
      
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