You may never have heard of the zipper method, but you engage in it all the time in traffic. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa
Two lanes of traffic are headed in the same direction, then one lane ends. What happens next?
The drivers all politely merge into one lane? Not always, as anyone who's ever driven through a construction site on a motorway will know.
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