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Steve Dallas · 04-12-2010, 03:10 PM

Besides the obvious ones (Left lane while not passing, no turn signals, can't maintain speed), here's one that gets me.

Merging on to and off of the freeway.

1) When you're getting on to the freeway, get up to the flow of traffic speed. If it's 60, be doing 60 BEFORE you merge. If it's slower, go as fast as everyone else, find your slot to merge and merge. Don't break, don't stop...merge.

2) Getting off the freeway. Unless the ramp is backed up, don't break before you are on the off ramp. If you're on the freeway, do the speed limit. Once you are on the off ramp, THEN you start to slow down. I hate it when people are doing 40 in the rightmost lane because people start to decellerate early.

3) This one is the one that bothers me the most. When getting on the freeway with traffic backed up. It's like a zipper. If I'm merging, I merge behind the car that was already on the freeway behind the person that merged ahead of me. Proper merging means the cars in the right lane of the freeway will alternate between those on the freeway and those merging. Of course, there are the idiots who decide there is now a clear lane to the right and go as far as they can to merge ahead of those that have already merged or are in the process of merging. I've been known to pull to the right to block these people so they merge like us normal folk.

04-12-2010, 03:10 PM	#43
Steve Dallas Commits weekly crime Drives: 2017 Camaro 1LT Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Camano Island, WA Posts: 9,513 View My Garage	Besides the obvious ones (Left lane while not passing, no turn signals, can't maintain speed), here's one that gets me. Merging on to and off of the freeway. 1) When you're getting on to the freeway, get up to the flow of traffic speed. If it's 60, be doing 60 BEFORE you merge. If it's slower, go as fast as everyone else, find your slot to merge and merge. Don't break, don't stop...merge. 2) Getting off the freeway. Unless the ramp is backed up, don't break before you are on the off ramp. If you're on the freeway, do the speed limit. Once you are on the off ramp, THEN you start to slow down. I hate it when people are doing 40 in the rightmost lane because people start to decellerate early. 3) This one is the one that bothers me the most. When getting on the freeway with traffic backed up. It's like a zipper. If I'm merging, I merge behind the car that was already on the freeway behind the person that merged ahead of me. Proper merging means the cars in the right lane of the freeway will alternate between those on the freeway and those merging. Of course, there are the idiots who decide there is now a clear lane to the right and go as far as they can to merge ahead of those that have already merged or are in the process of merging. I've been known to pull to the right to block these people so they merge like us normal folk. __________________ 2017 Camaro 1LT - Blue Barchetta IV I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar. Tires spitting gravel I commit my weekly crime.