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Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Here in California, we have carpool lanes, which are also known as diamond lanes (marked with a diamond symbol), and officially called High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes.
These special lanes are intended to alleviate traffic congestion by encouraging two or more occupiers in a car. This helps to maximize the people-carrying capacity of our roadways. If you’ve been to Southern California during a recent visit, you’ve likely experienced the non-stop bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic that we seem to have year-round now, in spite of also having these HOV lanes. It can be maddening and exasperating to drive across town and take two hours to go a mere 20 miles in distance.
One interesting aspect of the carpool lanes involves their design.
Most of the carpool lanes are at the leftmost positional lane of the freeway, generally where you would normally expect a so-called fast lane to be. The carpool lanes used to be wide open such that any car could wander into and out of the carpool lane, doing so at any juncture. Studies showed that this was actually making traffic worse and leading to a heightened volume of car accidents, and that a controlled entry point and exit point for the use of carpool lanes made more sense.
