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I am that autonomous vehicle that always heavily dampens the stop and start flow. Ive been doing this for decades, its not hard just look ahead at traffic and stop being fixated on the vehicle directly in front of you.
Do the same, not least of which because I drive stick and otherwise I'd have an even more massive left leg. If you make me keep clutching in for no reason I will give you such a kicking. And believe me, if I kick you you'll stay kicked.
It makes people behind you get super pissed off sometimes, though, which is hilarious to watch. I suppose they honestly believe that trying to crawl up the tailpipe of the car in front of them will make the other half a million cars in front magically go faster somehow, or something.
When people get impatient and honk at me to move when I can only scoot a few feet, I hit the brakes and come to a full stop while traffic keeps inching. Maybe I'll let another car in our lane,maybe not. Either way, we will both be leaving traffic at the same time whether I'm an inch away from the car ahead of me, or 30ft. If I can get out and walk faster than traffic, there's no point in getting pissy over cars not squeezing in every inch they can.
It's a game I play too. Sometimes you even get lucky with terrain and you can see the whole period of a wave and determine a speed to nullify it entirely. So satisfying.