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part of society operates on traffic problems that are ghosts.

people tell the truth until it's abused, then just stop. cars follow at safe paces until they get cut off by reckless drivers. whole hours of traffic is caused by a single guilty driver who serves into the exit lane.




What?


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M

basically, people are dealing with a ghost. you have one person suddenly stop and now there's a permanent kink in the behavior of the traffic.




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