Traffic challenge
We were headed into Memphis this week, pulling the TT in the right lane on I-55 with a semi next to us in the left lane. As we approached an entrance ramp at about 60 mph, I watched an SUV coming up ...
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captnjack wrote:
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying always or never here. I did say "sometimes" it's better to hold course and speed. My post was aimed at those posters who seemed to indicate they always had a safe and appropriate defensive move available to them. Sometimes that is just not the case. I believe anyone who has done a lot of driving in moderate to heavy freeway traffic will agree.
Understood, and you are absolutely right. In those cases where there is nothing that can be done by a driver on the highway (in the given scenario of merging traffic) then it falls on the merging driver to adjust since the merging driver does not have the right of way. If there is a collision that results, the merging driver will be the one presumed liable in that case.
