Anyone ever do this?

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Ok, so you're sitting in a car (another person is driving) and the car will go along the same road for quite a long stretch. You are familiar with this road and you know that going from point A (densely populated urban area) to point B (countryside), the traffic volume will slowly die out. As with anything, input of traffic should be less than the output. At busy intersections, you try to see the pattern and see if there really is more cars leaving the road than cars coming in. Sometimes you notice the pattern but other times you can't seem to see the pattern and you get frustrated.

Anyone else have this or similar obsessions?

Until now, no. I'm usually too focused on not hitting or being hit by the idiots around me.

After reading this, probably. Thanks.

Thanks a lot!

Now I'll probably be watching for the pattern, and have my first accident in almost twenty years!

I occasionally have idle 'traffic light musings' about things like that, but like MrXxx, I keep my radar pretty firmly focused on the vehicles in my immediate vicinity, assuming they are all piloted by idiots who couldn't care less if they kill me, or themselves.

I'm much more prone to focus on things like that when someone else is doing the driving. Then a distracting notion like that keeps me from compulsively stomping on the 'invisible brake pedal'.

That's been one of my life long obsessions. I love watching the pattern.

I have some of them similar I guess. Like once I notice while driving in the county I live in, that all the north-south roads are numbered Avenues, and all the east-west roads are presidents names. Also the addresses on the east-west roads match up with the numbered Avenues, so 6855 would be near 68th Ave.

If someone else is driving, I try to not to pay attention to the driver even though I can't help criticizing everything they do.