Saturday, May 31, 2008

Falstaff's Law of Disappearing Gaps in Traffic

The velocity of the last car before the gap in the traffic is always less than the velocity of the first car after the gap.


[If you think about it, you'll see that there's a logical reason for this. Not that that makes it any less annoying.]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So what are left lanes for?

Falstaff said...

lekhni: Not much use for crossing the road, are they?

Anonymous said...

You were trying to cross the road in the middle of traffic? Oh. I've only done that in India.