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Published online 17 April 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000420-4
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Physicists have found that one erratic driver can cause a traffic jam, Philip Ball reports.
Most traffic jams have an obvious cause. Sometimes it is a blocked lane or a bottleneck on a multi-lane highway.
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