That's not too surprising. One of the reasons we get traffic jams that persist is that when the car ahead of you accelerates out of it at the other end, you wait a little until there's some distance between you until you accelerate out of it.
So effectively, by waiting for separation before speeding up, you're transmitting the congestion upstream.
Of course, real people can't just floor it at the same time as the person ahead of them. When the military drives in tight convoys, they use things like hand signals to make everyone throttle up at the same time and maintain the distance between them. It's frightening the first few times you do it because it goes against all instincts.
So yes, that works. No, it's not a practical solution.
I guess I'm hand-wavily referring to both. The time gap might be the actual delay, but after waiting for some separation, most people also don't aggressively maintain that separation -- they let the distance grow longer for a little while to get even more separation. I guess that's the max accel.
So effectively, by waiting for separation before speeding up, you're transmitting the congestion upstream.
Of course, real people can't just floor it at the same time as the person ahead of them. When the military drives in tight convoys, they use things like hand signals to make everyone throttle up at the same time and maintain the distance between them. It's frightening the first few times you do it because it goes against all instincts.
So yes, that works. No, it's not a practical solution.