On: Jerks actually reduce the risk of traffic jams

[fleaflicker]

nyt had a great feature analyzing the effect of the "jersey merge" last year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03traffic-t.html

[kmcgivney → fleaflicker]

That's a really good article.

[dhoe → kmcgivney]

I like it, too. The "early 1900s Dane" not mentioned by name is Erlang, btw.

[HalcyonMuse → dhoe]

Definitely the most amusing journalism piece I've read lately.

It also didn't smack of that whole "I don't know what I'm talking about" thing that plagues modern journalism.