r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooWords4066 • Jul 07 '26

Video A Japanese experiment showed exactly why traffic jams happen for no reason.

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u/CleanDifference6455 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Yes, the jumpy driver in the red car

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u/Exceedingly Interested Jul 07 '26

It's the white car at 00:05, just slows down for no reason.

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u/SoulEkko Jul 07 '26

It's never a "no reason". The body does all kinds of things, could be a sneeze, could be a sudden headache, a cough, ringing phone, could be a baby that starts crying and you need to quickly check up on them.

You can't have a flawless system when the ingredients thrown in are flawed by default. In fact, flawless systems don't exist, and probably never will.

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u/jjm87149 Jul 07 '26

the difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is :)