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Please, please, please don't do that. Cars are dangerous things and when traffic is so close that you're looking for openings, it is too congested to get in there. Safety should be your first priority and that means you're looking for openings that even a car with a tiny little one liter engine it has more than enough space to get in. If there isn't a big gap, just sit back and wait for one, It's a sign that your city needs more roads. Not a little more roads like the people say one more lane, a lot more lanes. Generally by the time people are asking for one more lane, they need five times as many lanes. Yes, that's expensive, maybe you should look into public transit instead.
Great safely folks. I've lost enough friends to drivers who were in a hurry. Please don't add another one to that list.
More lanes doesn't solve anything. It only increases traffic by induced demand.
What really helps to accommodate increasing traffic is to lower the speed limit, so more cars can fit in the same lane.
If you get induced demand that means your city is way behind in getting people where they want to be. If people didn't want to go places they would live in remote locations. Instead they live in cities because of the options.
Once again, maybe you should build better transit. Don't use induced demand as an excuse to not let people get places.