The "Sidezoomer" Issue

We enjoyed this story from The New York Times Magazine about the etiquette of the highway merge or the funneling of lanes on the road. It discusses those people who feel comfortable zooming all the way to the front of the line and squeezing their way in, instead of lining up in the accessible lanes like the rest of the good-intentioned and good-souled drivers on the road. It also discusses people's reactions to those bad-souled "sidezoomers," a term coined by the author.

Finally, and most interestingly, the article devles into the study of traffic patterns and the most efficient means of highway merging, which actually involves a controlled form of sidezooming.