05-10-2016, 08:59 AM
(05-10-2016, 08:50 AM)SammyOES Wrote: The problem with the 'keep pace' solution is that it effectively just moves the bottleneck point backwards. You get all of the same problems, but earlier.
You also miss a lot of the benefits like 'reduced road rage' because people (rightfully, imo) get annoyed at you for blocking a good portion of roadway that is meant to be used.
Keep pace is bad in the context of zipper merge if it means you are lowering your speed in order to match with the 20th car back of the merge with no one in front of you. It's fine if it means you and the other lane are doing roughly the same speed, and both have roughly the same number of cars in front of you leading up to the merge.