A threshold guardian is often just a guy in the slow lane of the story appointing themselves traffic police. Like those truckers who decide to straddle merging lanes to enforce “fairness” when a full capacity zipper merge would in fact be more efficient.
Fine, ditch zipper. I’ll stand by claim that blocking harms the merge efficiency by shortening available coordination surface/line
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Blocking is motivated by a fairness/cutting in line type silly instinct, there is no efficiency justification for even adding it to the solution space
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Very interesting discussion. I've always assumed the traffic engineers had a reason for placing the merge point where they did & I reckon efficiency was at least part of their thought process. There are definitely driver types that prioritize either fairness or efficiency.
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I ride a motorcycle, it all means nothing to me.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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An assumption that, I think, makes the conclusion (that zipper is more efficient) more situational than general.