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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korbe wrote:
What I find interesting is when I do move over to the fast lane to allow easier merging, these same people I moved over for, don't let me get back into the slow lane....
Ah yes...my favorite. You move over to let some one merge on, then they proceed to accelerate until they are pacing you at your identical speed. Try to accelerate to 70 mph and they do too. Slow back to 65 and they do too. Meanwhile traffic backs up behind me because I can't get back into the slow lane. Arrrggghhhh!:M
Or you come up behind a slow car in the right lane that you want to pass....you wait for the car in teh left lane to go by, but instead fo passing he comes up next to you and slows down, blocking you in the right lane. He won't pass and he won't drop back....:M
Found out when my kids had drivers ed about 10 years ago, they stopped taking kids out on the interstates as part of drivers training. So no education on speed control, merging, lane usage, etc. I made darn sure I taught my kids that when they were learning to drive!
Speed control is the other biggie...people speed up and slow down according to what the car next to them is doing...it doesn't matter how fast or slow you want to go, pick a speed and drive it!!!
