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Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour
What possible traffic or safety benefit is there to having several hundred feet of empty lane?
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The lane is that long to allow you time to make slight adjustments to your speed without having to make others have to stop. The problem is as soon as one guy goes to the end and makes somebody have to hit their brakes; that causes a chain reaction and normally causes a bottleneck. At that point it is better to go to the end in theory; however I don't like to be part of the problem.
One thing I learned in a defensive driving course- try to change lanes without anybody else having to touch their brakes. That is the halmark of a successful lane change.