Let’s talk about merging! That’s right, the act of changing lanes when the road narrows to a single lane. Why is it that there are still Assholes who refuse to merge in an efficient manner.
“QUICK GET AHEAD OF AS MANY CARS AS POSSIBLE!!!”
These asses are the reason merging lanes are a nightmare! If everyone merged into the proper lane as soon as they saw the warning sign, we could all cruise through at a modest 40 miles an hour rather than coming to a complete stop; All because 3 MORONS decide that they are SOOOO Important that they shouldn’t have to get into your lane until they run out of road.
How is this so difficult to understand? There is always at least one jerk that acts like his passenger wheels are set on a track directly over the white shoulder line and won’t deviate from his present course for fear of sideswiping oncoming traffic. DONT BE THIS GUY!!! If your lane will soon disappear….GET OUT OF THAT LANE!!!! Sometimes I can’t wait until I’m 90 Years old and couldn’t care less about my car. At that point I am going to sideswipe these assholes into an embankment and blame it on senility.
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RE: How To Merge
As one of the “assholes” to whom you refer in your diatribe, I would like to offer an alternate point of view. It makes no sense to vacate a useable lane of traffic simply because, at some arbitrary distance down the road, it will end. All lanes end, eventually. In fact traffic engineers routinely design roads with more lanes through heavier traffic areas and fewer lanes in lighter traffic sections. Many of those roads function without major disruption and without requiring drivers to move over sooner than necessary. What makes more sense is to utilize the soon-to-be-truncated lane until the pavement runs out. If, at that point, each driver in the adjacent lane would allow one (and only one) vehicle to merge, traffic could continue at a modest 40 MPH pace without disruption. I contend that it is the inconsiderate assholes in the adjacent lane, who will not allow drivers in the truncated lane to merge, that are at fault. That’s just my opinion. And we all know that opinions are like assholes.
Yes, your opinion is valid and realistic, however not in my experience.
Example…i leave two car lengths in front of me for the guy in the disappearing lane to merge over 100 to 150 yards prior to the lane merging into non existance. I leave this gap for him to merge all the way up until the end but he chooses not to get over because he wants to be one car farther ahead of me…thus driving traffic to a near standstill. It had nothing to do with him not being able to merge in…its a matter of selfish gotta get ahead of the next guy mentality …that is what im refering to.