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Originally Posted by speeder
If people were good enough drivers, the zipper move could be done without even slowing down.
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Maybe at 2am when there's only a few cars on the road.
If you've got 3 car lengths between you and the car in front of you (provided you are not in rush hour traffic) and someone zipper merges in between, you both now only have 1 car length between each of you. In some parts of the country, that will get you pulled over for 'following too closely'. The only solution is to slow down until the car in front of you is safely far enough ahead to continue. Do that a few times and next thing you know, both lanes are stopped to allow everyone to get up to speed with safe enough distances between them.
Again, the zipper merge is great in theory and on paper but in real life, it just doesn't work like that. You can't take bumper to bumper traffic in two lanes and make them squeeze into one without delay.