Highway merging rant
I guess I’ll never stop being amazed how most people merge onto highways from on-ramps. It practically never fails – here I am almost exclusively in the right hand lane, where I’m legally supposed to...
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When you search the answer on GOOGLE you get different answers on who has the right away. I thought this one was interesting...
"There are two different give way rules for merging.
On roads where there are lanes marked on the road, if your lane comes to an end, you must give way to traffic already in the lane you are moving to. 1. On roads where there are lanes marked on the road, if your lane comes to an end, you must give way to traffic already in the lane you are moving to. In the image to the right, Vehicle A (blue) must give way to Vehicle B (green)."
"On roads where there are no lanes marked on the road, when lines of traffic merge, you must give way to any vehicle that is ahead of you. 2. On roads where there are no lanes marked on the road, when lines of traffic merge, you must give way to any vehicle that is ahead of you. In the image to the right, Vehicle B (green) must give way to Vehicle A (blue). Lines of traffic refers to adjacent rows of vehicles that do not have a lane separation line between them."
Article from google search...
I know I like to slow sometimes to let the guy make the merge but everytime I do this the merging vehicle also slows so there we are in another situation... Its almost a NO-WIN situation.
I also usually fall back to biggest vehicle has the right-away haha...
Common sense tells me that.... Big trucks win everytime...
Roy Ken
"There are two different give way rules for merging.
On roads where there are lanes marked on the road, if your lane comes to an end, you must give way to traffic already in the lane you are moving to. 1. On roads where there are lanes marked on the road, if your lane comes to an end, you must give way to traffic already in the lane you are moving to. In the image to the right, Vehicle A (blue) must give way to Vehicle B (green)."
"On roads where there are no lanes marked on the road, when lines of traffic merge, you must give way to any vehicle that is ahead of you. 2. On roads where there are no lanes marked on the road, when lines of traffic merge, you must give way to any vehicle that is ahead of you. In the image to the right, Vehicle B (green) must give way to Vehicle A (blue). Lines of traffic refers to adjacent rows of vehicles that do not have a lane separation line between them."
Article from google search...
I know I like to slow sometimes to let the guy make the merge but everytime I do this the merging vehicle also slows so there we are in another situation... Its almost a NO-WIN situation.
I also usually fall back to biggest vehicle has the right-away haha...
Common sense tells me that.... Big trucks win everytime...
Roy Ken
