Crazy Accident
I just wanted to relate an incident that happened to me a couple of years ago. There's another post about an accident that made me think about this one. I was towing a travel trailer down I-65 a...
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mlts22 wrote:Houston Remodeler wrote:
My first 35 years of driving were spent in Philly where folks locked bumpers at 55 mph (yes that was the max back then) to take an exit and not let anyone in. Yes it was frightfully dangerous, but most folks knew to get in the back of the line or take the next exit.
When I moved to Texas it was another world. Folks got into the correct lane miles ahead, with a rare few nudging in at the end. The polite folks in Texas seem to have it right.
In rural areas in Texas, I see people taking time to get into the correct lane, and making sure to move into a position so that someone who is in the wrong lane can merge in without a problem.
In Austin, people will actually deliberately move into the lane that is ending, floor it, and cut in, inches away from where the barrels are, forcing the entire lane to a standstill, when there was at least a mile of warning previously. I'm guessing it is a behavior that the out of state transplants carry with them, since as soon as one leaves the city proper, people grasp the concept of moving over in a safe manner.
More likely, it is a side-effect of living in the city. In the cities, most people face bumper-to-bumper traffic on a daily basis, or at least weekly; whereas in rural areas, most people rarely find themselves in bumper-to-bumper traffic. When you sit in dead traffic for X minutes/hours a day, you start to jump at the opportunity to "get ahead" whether it's polite or not.
