I believed everyone's been through it, stucked in a traffic jam, trying to push your torsos a few inches higher trying to see just what the hell happened up front. Wild guesses ranged anything from accidents, road blocks, mass migration of frogs or crabs etc. Then you got to a point where you suddenly realize you're traveling 80km/h and there's no jam at all, as if everyone just decides to all go slowly and then fast. Watch this video as Japanese researchers put together a few dozen cars on a circular 'road' with a 200 meter diameter, spaced evenly apart and asked them to drive at the same speed, guessed what? Before long, traffic jam occurred, and spread like a shockwave through the circle, and it never ends from then on. Imagine how much petrol and time was wasted through this annually.
Have you ever wondered "Where the hell is the culprit for the traffic jam??!?"
Here's the deal guys, we started off as an automotive industry magazine that talks about anything remotely associated with cars. The subprime crisis, the oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Tohoku Earthquake are all world issues affecting the automotive industry.
Not only the face of what's happening on a global scale, we delve deep into the auto-journalism ethics, criticizing the increasingly mundane automotive advertising industry, we explained how America's dwindling confidence and rising sense of inferiority complex gave rise and ultimately fueled the media in propagating hatred towards Toyota.
In short, we're serious towards the automotive industry, our scope and depth is what makes us who we are, and we believe there are a lot more aspects towards which we can continue explore with the magazine when it comes to all things automotive. From the wider perspectives covering technological, sociological or even geopolitical, to inner workings of the trends and traits of design and advertising of cars, towards the human aspects that shapes the very cars we drive day in and out.
And this, is the reason why we decide to give the magazine a bump, a revamp into Wheels Weekly: Live Life Drive. Before that comes though, we will be launching an inaugural celebration issue where we chronicle the best of Wheels Weekly. We can't wait, we hope you too.