anon dad knows | TheaterFire

Hey, also another sprectrum pal, I’m not bothered either because Reddit has bigger problems LMAO BUT ALSO peepers doesn’t speak for all of us, no autistic person does

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FlipsieVT@reddit

Is this offended autist in the room with us right now?

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PsychologicalOven427@reddit

They might be in a second if you keep sassin me (I AM BEING SARCASTIC, jesus Reddit, I'm the one who's supposed to take people literally)

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my_cars_on_fire@reddit

I always love it when someone tries to white knight a marginalized community, and then a member of said community comes along and tells them to fuck off 😂🤣

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dexter2011412@reddit

Tale as old as time. Fucking knights.

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mofodius@reddit

omg it's wholesome chungus Keanu!!

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gman8686@reddit

This is quite possiblely *the* most r/greentext comment I've ever read. I pray this is a bait.

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gfolder@reddit

I still don't get it, nor do I include the possibility of the tism, tho it could be for research purposes, yet I did downvote

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tfsblatlsbf@reddit

This is greentext. Everyone here is autistic.

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unevenvenue@reddit

My next customized license plate ^

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Minengdlose855@reddit

Damn super rare you see this many downvotes on something that isn’t like “pedophilia good” or “heil Hitler” on a far left sub.

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Jonesy1348@reddit

Hi, average autism enjoyer here, we don’t care. Most of us don’t see it as a disability.

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Billy_Madison69@reddit

What does this being Reddit have to do with anything lmao

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BeetrixGaming@reddit

Lmao as an autist myself, yeah that's autist behavior. I'll allow it. :3

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Patriotnoodle@reddit

Are you lost? Do you know where you are?

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MythicalGeology@reddit

Alright folks, kick this guy out

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Gallusaur@reddit

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It sounds very similar to an old finance joke: Two efficient market theorists are walking along the street. One of them says, "Wow, there's a $100 bill on the ground!" The other one says, "Don't be ridiculous. If there were, somebody would have picked it up by now."

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Check_Me_Out-Boss@reddit

You missed the punchline. It's supposed to be: "Don't be ridiculous. Arbitrage doesn't exist."

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JDude13@reddit

Maybe he understands that changing lanes is one of the most dangerous things to do while driving and it doesn’t even save that much time (except for extreme circumstances)

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2008WR450F@reddit

He might just be a moron, Mythbusters even tested this and could confirm that constantly changing lanes to the seemingly faster one WILL get you to your destination faster.

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The_Knife_Pie@reddit

Importantly their result showed you get there barely faster. I believe 4% was what they got.

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TrySavings6075@reddit

4% > 0%

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RiguezCR@reddit

shaving 4% off your travel time isn't worth increasing risk by constantly changing lanes

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Matikso@reddit

Not counting fuel costs because of more dynamic driving

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the_capibarin@reddit

And the general nuisance of the entire thing, both for others and yourself

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PrrrromotionGiven1@reddit

It's kind of the opposite, no? People that change lanes a lot probably just want to do *something*, to claw back a sense of control. To not just brainlessly autopilot.

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SwoodyBooty@reddit

>To not just brainlessly autopilot. *participate in complex social behaviour for the benefit of everyone involved. FTFY

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Rezorceful@reddit

I get what you’re saying, and I agree in this context. But something feels so wrong with referring to car-centric culture as beneficial in any way.

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SwoodyBooty@reddit

True. But if you behave as expected for the respective system _all_ people involved benefit. It's not the goal to squeeze out 4% of your journey at questionable cost.

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Shagroon@reddit

The other thing about that, too, is that the 4% is an ideal scenario. Most likely, you’re gonna burn that extra time at the next red light.

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madam_zeroni@reddit

Not sure why you’re so heavily downvoted on a reasonable opinion

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Fucked-In-The-K-Hole@reddit

Cause downvoting fun

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UFCLulu@reddit

You’re correct

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PhD_in_MEMES@reddit

Ah yes, the folks that ride in the far right land and never move over in traffic so the on ramps and the right lane slow to a crawl.

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clownbritches@reddit

Is it risky to change lanes?

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homelesshyundai@reddit

Your discounting the "making the drive more engaging" aspect. Driving in one lane at a snails pace is boring and I start to zone out.

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lapideous@reddit

Zoning out is the best way to drive. What are you doing, counting the number of botts dots?

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neonxmoose99@reddit

Your insurance company must hate you

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lapideous@reddit

How much brain power do you really need to not hit the car in front of you

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01_Mikoru@reddit

What happens when a deer runs in front of you

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lapideous@reddit

Notice and react? How long does it take you to zone back in lol

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01_Mikoru@reddit

That’s if you even notice it, zoning out at 65mph is super dangerous, so dangerous in fact they now design highways specifically to prevent people from doing it

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lapideous@reddit

My car also has safety features like automatic braking, so that’s nice

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neonxmoose99@reddit

You sound like a Tesla driver

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lapideous@reddit

Did you know most cars made after 2018 have adaptive cruise control? There’s a whole world out there!

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1945-Ki87@reddit

Reddit is just being Reddit and taking zone out to a logical extreme. Everyone seems to think you’re fully lobotomizing and blinding yourself while you drive

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neonxmoose99@reddit

Yeah my car has it

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homelesshyundai@reddit

Honestly, even paying attention, both deer I hit were unavoidable. The one came out faster than I could move my foot to the brake pedal.

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Your-Evil-Twin-@reddit

Yes it is. I would increase my risk by up to 1000% if it got me there 0.1% faster.

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-Dueck-@reddit

It's worth it to me

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CaraMellowGirl@reddit

Yeah but weaving on interstate is fun as fuck

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TrySavings6075@reddit

wrapping around the next light post vs getting home 4.16% slower

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intoxicatedhamster@reddit

But averaging 80 in a 65 will get you there 25% faster, changing lanes give you an extra 4%, for a total of 29% travel time savings and helps you keep the average without overly speeding to compensate for slowdowns. Speeding added to lane changing is where the real gains come in...

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lapideous@reddit

That’s like 2.5 minutes per hour of driving, I could be microwaving chicken nuggets in that time

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po114@reddit

Just about the perfect time for popcorn at 800W, you'll be on the couch snacking away by the time the lowly non lane switcher arrives

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AzeWoolf@reddit

if i'm that desperate to get home 4 percent faster then just save the light post the trouble and put me down yourself

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intoxicatedhamster@reddit

Might be worth it to someone with little to lose and who cares little about the safety of others... If I'm driving to south Carolina it's a 14hr drive, if I can shave off 4%, that's 33mins saved. And if I speed and average 80mph instead of the usual 60-65 average, I can shave about 3.5-4.5 hours off. So driving like a dick can turn my 14hr drive into potentially a 9 hour drive... Provided I don't get into an accident or get pulled over

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boruwinski@reddit

Bro what you mean the risk of changing lanes? Left go fast right go slow simple as. You wait for left to be free and go, if there is risk in it for you maybe you shouldn’t be driving

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eggrolldog@reddit

Not always.

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boruwinski@reddit

Yeah maybe not in the us but as long as everyone uses basic lane culture it works always

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ras344@reddit

>as long as everyone uses basic lane culture it works always This is the problem. You need to account for other drivers. A lot of people here will just coast in the left lane, and that slows things down for everyone.

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boruwinski@reddit

Yep. I’ve seen some videos of us highway traffic and honestly it looks like nobody gives a shit, so everyone is angry as a result. Also in eu trucks are obliged to go right lane only/ can only overtake under certain circumstances

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psychocopter@reddit

Yep, weaving through traffic is risky and not worth it, but getting into the fast lane and using the passing lane to skip over slow moving vehicles is reasonable.

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Doidleman53@reddit

That wasn't the question

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jas2628@reddit

And adding to all of the traffic by making everyone behind you adjust their speed to your moves.

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unevenvenue@reddit

Depends ENTIRELY on distance traveled. Longer the distance, the greater the advantage. This is proportionality in a nutshell.

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alpacalypse5@reddit

I mean are we talking heavy or light congestion? If you think it is considerably risky to change lanes during light traffic, you shouldn't be on the road.

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The_Knife_Pie@reddit

The time saved from lane changing scales with congestion. Light traffic only resulted in like, a minute of saved time iirc.

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kpingvin@reddit

When I was still in the office I was about 20 minutes away from the office. There was a stretch of road with a 60 limit I often tended to do 70, even overtaking cars on a single carriageway. Then one day I was wondering how time I gain by doing this: If my average speed was 10mph higher than keeping to the speed limit for the whole journey, I gained 3 minutes. I went back to the speed limit.

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Spe3dGoat@reddit

thats just speed. you didnt take into effect lane changing. if water is dammed up, it slows the flow. if trickles along the side are opened up, flow increases. not JUST for the water changing "lanes" but for all of the water as the pressure is reduced overall.

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kpingvin@reddit

Yeah, it was just a similar example.

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my_cars_on_fire@reddit

Maybe for you - have you ever *SEEN* traffic in New York?!

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Spe3dGoat@reddit

if people who change lanes stop doing so, then there is a compounding effect on traffic as everyone simply gazes into oblivion. suddenly traffic becomes much less efficient those people who change lanes are changing the flow for the better of EVERYONE in other words, if they all stopped, EVERYONE's drive becomes longer by a lot more than 4%

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MigazOne@reddit

I mean one could argue changing lanes makes you remain focused while just following the cars in front makes you zone out increasing risk as well, I would rather people drive more aggressively if that means they are focused on what they are doing.

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Seffuski@reddit

Skill issue

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BobDylansBasterdSon@reddit

It is if the risk is passed on to others by driving a giant SUV or pick-up.

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krazay88@reddit

you’re actually way more aware of your surroundings being an active driver, than passively staying in a lane and risk getting distracted by the monotony

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iSQUISHYyou@reddit

Yeah, no. If I don’t change lanes my chances to get in an accident go significantly down.

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et_cetera1@reddit

True, and for a 10 minute drive that's negligible but for longer trips that can be worth something. Regardless of this don't be stupid and drive safe but it's worth noting

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SlamBiru@reddit

For longer traffic jam not trip, except if you’re stuck in a 14Hr traffic jam you won’t have significant changes

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UReady4Spaghetti@reddit

Statistically insignificant.

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Deweyrob2@reddit

Source?

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TrySavings6075@reddit

I don't have one, sorry

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McENEN@reddit

4% faster. You save a few minutes at best. You increase your chances of getting in an accident which will waste much more of your time even for a minor accident, not including possibility of injury which even if minor is more time wasted. And even no accident, its still much more stressful.

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Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit

you only save 4 minutes on a 100 minute long commute

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acdgf@reddit

worth

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windowpuncher@reddit

Brother that's another 4 minutes of sleep

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Sean-Benn_Must-die@reddit

doesnt really math out like that

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The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit

Dionysus would be changing lanes every possible opportunity, even if it ended up taking longer

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Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit

Dionysus doesn't support drunk driving

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The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit

Dionysus only drives drunk. And naked

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MrCattsDad@reddit

If I get into an accident I've just made my drive actually interesting

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Spe3dGoat@reddit

its 4% for the drivers changing lanes but its also reduced for those who dont because some pressure has been relieved. if all lane changers were to stop doing it completely, EVERYONE's drive time would increase, not just the lane changers.

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McENEN@reddit

Is there a source for this or you just made it up? You can watch experiments on youtube how trafic forms. Its because one has to break for some reason(lets say because someone changed into his lane without) and then the guy behind him has and down the lane with each breaking time being longer. Changing lanes doesnt help trafic, from all the statistics i know it probably worsens it for everyone else.

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homelesshyundai@reddit

Speak for yourself, I find it stressful to be in a lane where people aren't using cruise control. That and driving gets monotonous as fuck, changing lanes and maintaining 5 over keeps me engaged. It doesn't help that my commute would be the ideal use case for a rudimentary self driving system.

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harveyshinanigan@reddit

speed isn't always key otherwise we'd just shoot ourselves out of cannons to travel

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MixaLv@reddit

Fits in a margin of error for a single experiment.

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dreaded_tactician@reddit

If you have a 1 hour commute, 4% will save you less than 2 minuites thirty seconds. If those 2 and a half minuite break you, you deserve to be broken. Leave the house a lil earlier.

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TheDarkSoul616@reddit

So they can sit in front of you at the next red light. Big wins.

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Grintock@reddit

Over a 4 hour drive, that adds up

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The_Knife_Pie@reddit

A four hour drive, or 240 minutes you would save ~10 minutes. So a 4 hour drive becomes 3 hours and 50 minutes. It does not “add up” to jack shit.

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Somerandom1922@reddit

Which over an hour long drive would save you 2 minutes and 24 seconds. That's if you don't end up getting caught up at traffic at the other end of the journey.

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Ck_shock@reddit

This is like when I see someone speed past me the 5 minutes later im pulling up next to them again. Even better on normal roads where the duche going 10mph over the speed limit still gets stuck at the stop light and saves no time

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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

It's the law of averages. Going 10 mph over the speed limit might only get me through a red light I'd otherwise miss 10% of the time. But that 10% of the time saves me a lot. Maybe 80% of the time the light would be green either way so I just save a fraction of a second, and the other 10% it's red either way and I gain nothing. But you don't need to win every time, so getting stuck 10% or whatever of the time is fine

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ColumbusJewBlackets@reddit

That’s on average. There are plenty of specific situations where changing lanes can save you significant time.

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The_Knife_Pie@reddit

No one has said to *never* change lanes. The words used were “constantly changing lanes”, which is a dangerous strategy for negligible gains

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ColumbusJewBlackets@reddit

Yes and I’m saying if you optimize and only change lanes in specific situations rather than constantly you can make significant gains

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Ck_shock@reddit

This is like when I see someone speed past me the 5 minutes later im pulling up next to them again. Even better on normal roads where the duche going 10mph over the speed limit still gets stuck at the stop light and saves no time

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context_lich@reddit

Idk about constantly changing lanes, but you can shave almost 10 minutes off your (city) commute, by having a general sense for how traffic moves in the intersections. Knowing to stay left as long as possible here and to stay right even though it seems slower initially there has made me not late for class at times when I absolutely should've been way later. It's harder to test than testing constantly changing lanes to the faster one because it relies on you having an intersection on your route that has an exploit

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atryhardrooster@reddit

I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of miles for work and have done plenty of long hauls. From my experience, the only time that speeding makes a meaningful difference is if you are driving for multiple hours straight, or speeding at a ridiculously dangerous pace. Going 80 in the 65 on the freeway for your 20 minute commute might feel like you’re going fast, but realistically, you are shaving off a maximum of 2 minutes IF traffic is favorable. Going 90+ you will start shaving off a noticeable amount of time, but also, just don’t go that fast yall, the sum of your entire life is worth so much more than the potential 10 minutes you get home faster.

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Reading_username@reddit

Other studies have showed that lane changing has a net negative effect on the traffic behind you though. Esp. in moderate to heavy traffic. So from a self-serving perspective, maybe worth it. From a Nash equilibrium perspective, everyone maximizing time in their own lanes in medium-heavy traffic ultimately is best for everyone. Anon's dad is a true economist confirmed.

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Glum-Bus-6526@reddit

Man that's not what nash equilibrium is. Nash equilibrium doesn't care about what's the best final outcome for society. Nash equilibrium is, by definition, "it is not profitable for any participant to switch strategies". If everyone stays in their own lane, then it is profitable for me to exploit opportunities by switching lanes, hence that state is not a nash equilibrium. If everyone is switching lanes like madman, I won't profit from changing my strategy to sticking to one lane, therefore that would actually be the nash equilibrium in this hypothetical scenario.

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Reading_username@reddit

Ok so, in reality: are you going to be the only one switching lanes? Because if not, then my point stands.

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Glum-Bus-6526@reddit

Your point doesn't stand because you got the definition wrong. The definition of Nash equilibrium is pretty direct and explicit: if it's profitable for any individual to switch strategies, then it's not a Nash equilibrium. Nash equilibrium doesn't care about the greater good. You know what is an example of Nash equilibrium? The OPs post. It's not profitable for him to switch strategies (to changing lanes). And if it's not profitable for everyone else also, that's it.

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The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit

People wouldn't wear masks to save their grandma, why the fuck would they stay in their lane so everyone gets where they're going faster, when they can put themselves and everyone else at risk and cause tailbacks with sudden lane switching so they can get home 30 seconds earlier

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Reading_username@reddit

They won't. The economic theory isn't saying they will, it's saying in an ideal situation that would be the best. Ever seen the movie A Beautiful Mind? They explain the concept quite simply - a bunch of college bros are at a bar, and a hot piece of blonde walks in with her orbiters. Naturally, the horndogs all gravitate towards her, but then John Nash stops them. He says, look guys if we all go for the skirt with legs, we'll all get rejected in turn. Then, her orbiters won't want anything to do with us, because no girl likes being the second choice. Thus, the only way for everyone to get laid is for all of us to avoid the queen bee. So a less than ideal outcome for the individual, but a greater than likely outcome for the whole.

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DezXerneas@reddit

And there's a CGP Grey video about how traffic blockages start, and some idiot aggressively switching lanes in one of them.

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The_Noremac42@reddit

Basically a rounding error with something as nebulous as traffic conditions.

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NsaLeader@reddit

They also concluded found out that the time gain wasn't worth it because of the stress and increased risk of safety for the driver and others

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melez@reddit

Adaptive cruise, lane keep, and hunker in the middle lane is probably the lowest stress form of highway commute slogging.

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DrummerDesigner6791@reddit

Beating the market by four percent is actually quite good.

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Lucius-Halthier@reddit

You can be four percent behind me as long as you don’t check out my ass. Not much to look at back there

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Medical_Artichoke666@reddit

Now incorporate not cutting off the guy behind you in those lanes and you've achieved nirvana.

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inthidiouth-jorge@reddit

Australia did some motorist test during rush hour where one test subject drove the speed level and changed lanes a moderate amount and basically drove like a normal human being and the other test subject cut up aggressively and basically did everything he could to the predestined finish line as fast as possible. The two drivers arrived four minutes apart but the more “aggressive” driver burned like 80% more fuel, showing negligent gain and a higher monetary loss by driving recklessly. Having learned this, I switched to a nocturnal schedule and just drive as fast as I want when no one else is on the road.

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thoughtlow@reddit

4 minutes without saying how much the total drive was in time or distance is meaningless really

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toiletclogger2671@reddit

80% more sounds insane and unrealistic

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windowpuncher@reddit

The coveted night drive

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Rikkushin@reddit

> Having learned this, I switched to a nocturnal schedule and just drive as fast as I want when no one else is on the road. When you're unemployed you can just switch schedules like that?

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inthidiouth-jorge@reddit

I was working in a warehouse at the time and just said “put me on nights” and they did it

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Fastpas123@reddit

They also said the gain in time wasn't worth the stress

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Desert_Aficionado@reddit

It really depends on what the traffic is like. In heavy traffic there's you should usually stay where you are. But in moderate traffic, 2 or 3 slow people can jam up a wide freeway, leaving a big open space in front of them.

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Neomataza@reddit

Don't you have rules that in moderate traffic you self sort according to your speed? Slow vehicles to right lane, overtaking vehicles go left lane.

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Rikkushin@reddit

Yeah it's a pain in the ass to constantly switch lanes in heavy traffic

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bigmangina@reddit

That really depends on who is behind the wheel, ive seen a lot of people lane change themselves backwards in traffic.

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

Wow no shit?

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ZhayBee@reddit

It's been a very long time since I saw the piece in question, but didn't they determine that while it is faster, it's really not worth the grief?

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Unlost_maniac@reddit

The conclusion was that it's not worth it at all

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Drafo7@reddit

Greentext where?

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wtharris@reddit

Anyone who brainlessly sits in traffic with looking for a better lane or route is the worst type of driver.

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kungfungus@reddit

Time to find a new dad

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orangutanDOTorg@reddit

That’s why you move to the slowest lane

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Parctron@reddit

The market isn't large enough to be efficient. 2-3 drivers could easily be driving slowly because they have different preferences, not because they have already optimized speed.

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Few-Requirement-3544@reddit

How large does a market need to be to be efficient?

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Shonnyboy500@reddit

There’s been a few studies on this actually, since moving people on highways tends to be a really important thing. The short answer is: very large. Have you seen that picture of some Chinese highway that’s just massive? It’d need to be a bit bigger than that, and at a specific capacity where traffic flows smoothly but without major gaps. Specific numbers vary, but a good middle range number would be about the width of 2 doorframes capable of fitting your mom

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Few-Requirement-3544@reddit

I meant literal economies. Although from the two Econ classes I took in undergrad, I understand that (behavioral) econ touches a little bit of every topic, so does what you said about highways generalize to other resource competitions?

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Shonnyboy500@reddit

I don’t know I pulled every single word in that comment out of my ass. I don’t even know what arbitrage means

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The_Demolition_Man@reddit

There's a your mom joke here somewhere

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CrispyJelly@reddit

|-------------------| This large.

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Zedman5000@reddit

depends on the type of market. On a highway, it's always just one more lane, bro

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Din_Plug@reddit

Or they have speedometers that are reading incorrectly.

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ExBrick@reddit

TBF most American drivers speed ~5-10 mph. The readout from external speed displays pretty much always matches my car's speedometer and if I drive exactly the speed limit, I'm getting passed much more often than I'm passing others.

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ExBrick@reddit

If you're driving at your desired travel speed, you won't be driving any faster even if the opportunity arises. This requires you to assume going faster is always the goal, but it isn't always as you can have engine problems, a weird payload for trucking purposes, low risk tolerance, or even just have a bunch of time and going faster doesn't optimize anything.

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Edgemonger@reddit

I’m the kinda guy where I have a few good miles before I need to make a turn, but I’ll just hang out in the closest lane to the eventual turn. None of that last-minute cutting across multiple lanes of traffic and I just don’t trust anyone to let me over when I’m trying to be prepared.

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Conorcat@reddit

Not greentext

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Divine-Crusader@reddit

Literally 1984 /s

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Idiot_of_Babel@reddit

They're like the physicists of financial world always assuming ideal conditions and shit

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SunderedValley@reddit

Economics is just sociology wearing pinstripe.

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Divine-Crusader@reddit

LOOK, CURVES AND GRAPHS AND EXCEL TABLES AND SHIT IT IS LITERALLY THE BASIS OF TRUTH ~~if you ignore all the variables I've ignored to make my models look pretty~~

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kfish5050@reddit

That's only assuming everyone else wants to go as fast as possible. People in the right lane don't always meet the speed limit, let alone surpass it, so that naturally debunks this reasoning.

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Mayo_Kupo@reddit

Soon: no one changes lanes because everyone assumes everyone else optimally changed lanes.

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GreenCitrusBeetle@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/6amtelkftv0g1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecb7239073be6ea63bd60298b135da1b34aaec65

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Various-Molasses-722@reddit

If this is true anon should invest in a dna test and a gun.

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Eantropix@reddit

> My lane is slow > I change lanes > My new lane is slow and my old lane is fast > Can't change lanes because cars are moving fast and won't give me way > My lane stops > Stick out my neck to see the reason > There is no reason, some car in front just decided to fuck with everyone else behind them > My lane slowly starts moving again > Traffic light goes red > My lane stops > Traffic light goes green > Other lane starts moving quicker than mine > Give up and just force myself onto it, receiving the warm honks and curses of the cars behind me > My new lane is slow Repeat until I either arrive at my destination or die trying

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e1zzbaer@reddit

Not sure how realistic the traffic lights are given that we're on a highway, but what do I know

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m4teri4lgirl@reddit

Highways can have lights. Interstates don't have lights.

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wedditgoid@reddit

If everyone expects other will expect market inefficiency no one will and the market will become inefficient

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capybarracuda13@reddit

The problem is that changing lanes has the potential to increase traffic. If one person has an imperfect lane change and the car behind them has to break, then each driver’s reaction time will be add to traffic in the long line of cars. If there’s less traffic this likely won’t make a difference. But if there’s less cars are crawling, lane changes likely will make everything worse for everyone.

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ExoTheFlyingFish@reddit

What drives a man to go to a GREENTEXT sub and not post green text It's not even like /r/4chan or something it's literally called GREENTEXT

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pixelatedCorgi@reddit

OPs dad is apparently also a moron who has never driven on a highway before and been stuck behind a 90 year old driving 40mph in the left lane

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my_cars_on_fire@reddit

OP’s dad *IS* the 90 year old driving 40 mph in the left lane!

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skilliard7@reddit

its a joke

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Bronze_Rager@reddit

I usually just drag race the 90 year olds and give them the finger when I peel off

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e1zzbaer@reddit

No amount of lane-changing will get you to your destination faster than breaking the law

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Kit_3000@reddit

That kinda works, as long as everyone has the same goal of arriving as fast as possible. But most of the time my main focus is preserving as much fuel as possible. In practice that means driving below the speed limit a lot of the time.

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skilliard7@reddit

Office Space demonstrated this best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrHjWRm-eXA

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Cry_Havock@reddit

His dad must be from Colorado.

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tsoneyson@reddit

Arbitrage is not a word even remotely usable in this context

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Thegreen9@reddit

My father doesn't want to build fences around the house so we can run away from bad guys, at this time we would have a lot of privacy in our home. In my city bad guys don't attack civilians and if they do, it's by accident. The only time something like that happened was because my dad approached them wanting to defend us (we were safe inside the house but for some reason he thought he was a hero and went out).

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Knowka@reddit

Anon stole this from twitter (or twitter stole this from 4chan, take your pick): [https://x.com/bpodgursky/status/1988497219201220801](https://x.com/bpodgursky/status/1988497219201220801)

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Elwin03@reddit

That's assuming that all that people care about is speed, or otherwise minimising travel time. If people also value other metrics, such as safety, this would not hold.

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XfinityHomeWifi@reddit

Speed arbitrage opportunities is a new one

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foxferreira64@reddit

Maybe they're going to leave the highway at the next exit, that's why they're on the slower lane. I wanna go further, I'll change lane. Or maybe I'm overthinking and anon's dad is a genius.

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saketho@reddit

This is a very good joke. Anyone know any good economist jokes? After seeing this post I went to this https://www.cs.ccsu.edu/~pelletie/local/humor/economics/economist.html and they’re all pretty terrible

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