Oh gawd... I drive on I-4 from Altamonte Springs down to Orange Blossom Trail past downtown everyday on my way to work. I cannot begin to tell you how much of a pain in the ass it is. It's also where my car got totaled on the 5th of this month, thanks to some jackass who decided to park his car in the fast lane just around a curve when everybody was going 50mph. Normally I would have been "at fault" but considering the situation I could not have avoided that accident.

I think a LOT of the problem has to do with the fact that there are exits on the left side as well as the right, so we get lots of people trying to cut through four lanes of highway traffic to get to the exit on the opposite side. Also, I would blame the kids in rice rockets who get in front of you even if there's just barely a car length of space in front of you. That would cause some panic braking which would cascade throughout the traffic, reaching as far back as Sanford.

Butterfly effect, anyone?