Tips for merging
What are your tips for merging with traffic when the lane you're approaching is at a near-45 degree angle from your lane? For example, a highway on or off ramp. As you get close to merging, you have...
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Vulcan Rider wrote:
Tip #3: Do not try to make a hole where there isn't one.
The problem with this logic is that it assumes that a) holes exist and b) any holes that might exist aren't immediately closed by drivers that don't want to be behind your massive RV. In many situations, if I waited for holes I'd have to pull over to the shoulder and wait until the middle of the night until there's no traffic.
Signal your intention and make a move to your intended lane. The seas will part. Otherwise you'll find yourself in a worse position being stopped in an acceleration lane with cars behind you going around you thus doubling the danger.
