
eric |
Why do people merge slowly on the interstate?
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Today I was behind 2 cars merging on the interstate. There were a couple of gaps in traffic we could have merge into while we were approaching the merge lane, if the cars ahead would have just speed up. Anyway, while the 2 cars ahead were still in the merging lane, I saw it was clear for a good distance, so I jumped in the right lane of the interstate first, then the left lane. The car directly ahead of me (referred to as second car) in the merge lane went in the right lane before the lead car in the merge lane and was about to pass the lead car without letting it in (the lead car was still in the merging lane and they were about side by side), but the second car cut me off in the left lane. And the lead car was STILL MERGING. I don't know why people think it's okay to merge slowly and to merge in the right lane going UNDER the speed limit. And traffic was clear from a distance, but when traffic is moving at 70 mph, it doesn't take them that long to get to the point where we're merging. If the left lane wasn't clear for me to go in, I actually thought about stepping on my gas after I jumped in the right lane to not let the 2 cars ahead of me merging in, which I know would have been the wrong thing to do, but the second car merging almost did that to the lead car. I regret how I handled this situation. Does anybody else have problems with "slow mergers"? I know cars merging are to yield to traffic already on the interstate, but if people would just use the merging lane to pick up speed and safely merge within gaps of traffic, traffic would flow better instead of having an idiot slow merger ahead of me (the second car was fine, the lead car was an idiot).
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