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e.g., slowing cars can increase average throughput.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory



Or making the slow cars faster. It's the interaction between the traffic of varying speeds that causes the problems (this goes for all sorts of queuing, not just vehicle traffic)




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