{"id":5174,"date":"2009-08-02T06:51:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T11:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2009-08-02T06:51:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T11:51:45","slug":"driving-like-a-jerk-reportedly-helps-to-reduce-traffic-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5174","title":{"rendered":"Driving like a jerk reportedly helps to reduce traffic jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re welcome then.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/08\/01\/driving-like-a-jerk-reportedly-helps-reduce-traffic-jams\/\">Drive like a sheep<\/a>, and you get stuck. Break some rules here and there for the  good of traffic flow, and everyone benefits. A new traffic study by physicists  at Sweden&#8217;s Umea University found that while we&#8217;re all taught to obey the  traffic rules no matter what, doing so just makes for bottlenecks. Mix in some  maverick drivers, however, and suddenly, logjams begin to ease as the percentage  of drivers willing to pass on the right or zip past a pack of trundling cars on  a two-lane actually help to keep the traffic flowing smoothly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So those middle fingers <em>are <\/em>a solute to my service to road goers after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re welcome then. Drive like a sheep, and you get stuck. Break some rules here and there for the good of traffic flow, and everyone benefits. A new traffic study by physicists at Sweden&#8217;s Umea University found that while we&#8217;re all taught to obey the traffic rules no matter what, doing so just makes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}