When I find myself caught in these shockwaves, I always attempt to do my little bit of help get rid of the jam. Since the tapping on the brakes causes the deceleration shockwave, I counter that with the acceleration shockwave.
Quite simply, when you begin to get through the shockwave and speed back up, KEEP ON THE GAS. Stay the (safe) same amount of distance between you and the car in front of you. If everyone in line does this, the reverse effect will be observed from the braking shockwave.
However, in the real world, some Sr. citizen inevitably does not accelerate. I'll be looking in my rearview mirror and notice a 20 car length gap all of a sudden. But that gap shows that the acceleration technique should work if everyone does it.
The concept is identical to starting out from a Red Light. It is unsafe, but if everyone in the line at the light started to accelerate at the same time when the light turned green, many more cars would get through. But accelerating inline with the person in front of you (and not letting those extra 3-4 car lengths build) will get everyone back up to speed much faster.
I have no proof for the statements made here as I don't have 30 cars in a loop to test them out. Just my observations from the real world.
So many of your complaints about the abundance of poorly designed AJAX sites are compared to Google. I know that in the companies I've worked for, we strive to support as many browsers and devices as possible. After all, the more places your site works, the more you can sell.
However, we are all not Google. Nor do most companies have the financial resources that Google does. For each additional device you want to support, you need further development.
Using your example of Google, it can really work great on mobile devices. Do you think this was an accident? No. There is probably a team of 50 or so people dedicated to the task of designing, implementing, and maintaining the portion of the application that works on phones.
So while it would be great for all AJAX applications to work everywhere, most of us are just trying to satisfy the 80-20 rule, as that is all the time/money we have available to us.
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When I find myself caught in these shockwaves, I always attempt to do my little bit of help get rid of the jam. Since the tapping on the brakes causes the deceleration shockwave, I counter that with the acceleration shockwave. Quite simply, when you begin to get through the shockwave and speed back up, KEEP ON THE GAS. Stay the (safe) same amount of distance between you and the car in front of you. If everyone in line does this, the reverse effect will be observed from the braking shockwave. However, in the real world, some Sr. citizen inevitably does not accelerate. I'll be looking in my rearview mirror and notice a 20 car length gap all of a sudden. But that gap shows that the acceleration technique should work if everyone does it. The concept is identical to starting out from a Red Light. It is unsafe, but if everyone in the line at the light started to accelerate at the same time when the light turned green, many more cars would get through. But accelerating inline with the person in front of you (and not letting those extra 3-4 car lengths build) will get everyone back up to speed much faster. I have no proof for the statements made here as I don't have 30 cars in a loop to test them out. Just my observations from the real world.
So many of your complaints about the abundance of poorly designed AJAX sites are compared to Google. I know that in the companies I've worked for, we strive to support as many browsers and devices as possible. After all, the more places your site works, the more you can sell. However, we are all not Google. Nor do most companies have the financial resources that Google does. For each additional device you want to support, you need further development. Using your example of Google, it can really work great on mobile devices. Do you think this was an accident? No. There is probably a team of 50 or so people dedicated to the task of designing, implementing, and maintaining the portion of the application that works on phones. So while it would be great for all AJAX applications to work everywhere, most of us are just trying to satisfy the 80-20 rule, as that is all the time/money we have available to us.
The only problem with waiting is that somewhere around the year 9209, it will be high noon at 12:00am, and pitch black at 12:00pm.