How not to get stuck in traffic

If more people took public transit, traffic would be better! But you should buy a new Toyota instead, because <\unrelated features>!

I drive exactly the way the video describes as propagating traffic jams - accelerating up to the car in front, because traffic is a prisoner’s dilemma and if I don’t 15 lane changing idiots will leap into the gap, leading to the same propagation except I’ll be 15 car lengths further back (which is a lot in gridlocked traffic).

Also, where have I heard about using ant based models for routing traffic before? Oh yeah!