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This is how traffic jams start (in Japan)

March 13, 2008 by Neil Maclean 

This little snippet shows how something as simple as a driver pausing to check that his wife had given him the right sort of radish in his bento box that morning can cause all the other cars - aimlessly circling behind him - to create a traffic jam.

In Britain this sort of experiment is usually conducted with a single traffic cone and a workman leaning on his spade at the side of the road.

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