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From: Donald.Heller@jpl.nasa.gov (Don Heller)
Subject: Re: Emergent Behaviour
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 01:15:25 GMT

In article <3gm7it$6fn@handler.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:

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>officers are trying to catch speeders so they tend to drive in a bunch
>hoping that their car won't be noticed in this pack of cars going 70
>MPH, or at least if the pack is noticed their car won't be chosen as
>the one to get a ticket. No one told the drivers to drive in bunches,
>rather this behaviour emerges as all drivers seek to keep from getting
>a ticket. 
>--Chuck McManis 

Hi Chuck -

I've noticed this also, but I deduced it is a strictly physical dynamics
situation.  Cars travel at their preferred speeds.  Faster cars tend to
pile up behind slower cars, and those idiots driving slowly in the fast
lanes.  Some cars eventually get around the pack and rush to the next
cluster.  Every car is going as fast as they want to, limited by the
available space in front.  When a roller is spied, everyone slows down
(except for the idiot destined to be dinner :-) by the big cat).

Don

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