Slow down – don’t let traffic jam– give those brakes a brake and you’ll actually arrive faster. Here’s how easing the pace will help smooth traffic patterns and your gridlock [stress] anxiety levels:
Fact:
High speeds reduce reaction time – this intensifies sudden daydreaming driver over-braking, triggering lane specific backup waves causing more sudden over-braking and lane changing – triggering more flow-clogging chain reactions until, inevitably, a minor fender-bender causes a major nightmare.
Fix:
Slow, steady traffic patterns move more cars – there is less random braking, mystery accordion pile-ups and far less wrecks – so you actually arrive faster by driving slower.
Fact:
Most commuters courageously and dutifully race onto the highway, only to immediately brake at the end of the on-ramp (wasting gas & polluting the future). Then impatiently [over] accelerate and stop an average of 52 times per-mile, which only perpetuates the gas-sucking, robot-shuffle :-( to break this habit, while lounging in the brake repair shop waiting room, multiply 52 stop-n-go’s x an average 8.5 mile commute = 442 stops closer to your next re-run of Jerry Springer in the brake repair shop lounge).
Fix:
Slow down early – long before you reach the jam (or lane disturbance accordion-jam). You’ll notice an amazing phenomena; the traffic ahead begins to move before you have to brake – and the combined effect of multiple drivers initiating this technique can actually u-n-l-o-c-k gridlock and save you lots of gas money.
As a sidebar, easing the paceis one of the most powerful anti-aging secrets you’ll ever discover. It immediately reduces your stress levels and less stress is the healthy facelift. Don’t let gridlock steal your youth JOIN now: – ease the pace – leave some space – encourage the merge
