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You're missing the point, which is that the the maximum carrying capacity of a road is a function of the skill exercised by the drivers.

The issue revealed here is that even a small number of unskilled drivers can do terrible things to the flow of traffic on busy roads. In other words, crowded roads have a very low tolerance for bad drivers.

Since the number of disruptively bad drivers is so remarkably low, and their negative effect is so stratospherically high, a program designed to improve their skills could save astonishing sums of time and money.

So it's not about "calling them the problem and calling it a day." It's about actually fixing the problem. And you don't need to single people out to do this. Rather, you set the bar for licensing at a level that they'll need to do additional work to cross. Given how few of them there are, this can be done with no disruption to 99% of the drivers on the road, and major benefit to 100% of them.




The article specifically mentions that it's not driver skill which is the issue:

  These commuters aren't necessarily slow or bad drivers. 
  Instead, they come from a few outlying neighborhoods and 
  travel long distances together in the same direction like 
  schools of fish -- clogging up not only the roads they 
  drive on, but also everyone else's.




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