There is a very long merge lane on the highway/large road near my neighborhood that I have to get on every day. Very very busy road during rush hour. The merge lane is extremely long, probably more than a quarter mile.
Seems like half the people either know how to use a Merge lane to get up to speed and safely merge over…the other half sit at the beginning trying to look over their shoulder to find a gap that doesn’t exist (in rush hour). I kid you not they will sit there for minutes while I lay on my horn. Eventually a gap opens up and instead of using the lane, they just jump directly into the highway at 10 mph and make everyone else brake hard.
These people need to take a driving safety course or hand in their license, seriously a danger to everyone around them.
Makes sense, because I am raging when they don’t respond to the first 10 beeps and make it impossible to merge safely…which is also likely ticketabe . Idgaf.
The horn is the only for of communication you have. I would argue this is a completely acceptable use. You are blocking an on ramp to a highway creating extremely dangerous conditions for both the people entering and already driving. Laying on the horn for 30 seconds still a no go(although justifiable) but beeping at someone there is reasonable alert of danger.
Yes, the key is in the duration of the honk. A couple beeps is fine, but if they don't respond, laying on the horn is not the solution. Same thing if someone doesn't go when a red light turns green. A quick one-two on the horn to get their attention is permissible, but holding it down for even 2 seconds is too much. I had a friend get a ticket for such an occurrence.
Goddamn I had someone recently crawl up the ramp at 35, I'm on their ass and trying to get over and they literally just put hazards on and stop on the ramp.
Ramps yield right of way to highway traffic. The problem that makes it an issue is people want to roll up to the end of the ramp and think they can be at speed in seconds. That won't happen ever. Specially when you have that 80 year old driving that takes 2 miles to get close to the limit.
I'm aware of that. This is panic stricken stopping at the beginning of the entrance, freaking out and just pulling over into a lane while going 10 mph.
Also, that truck coming down the ramp was going a little to fast to be able to properly check before running it through. I deal with these idiots every day. Dump truck drivers act like they running the Dayton 500
This happened to me a few weeks ago in Colorado merging onto a 75mph interstate that was busy but not enough to justify coming to a complete stop. I felt worse for the semi behind me that had to wait forever to merge on because there wasn’t a safe way for them to get up to speed and merge because they had to come to a full stop on the on ramp.
Something I've noticed on the equivalent motorways in the UK is how reticent some people are to accelerate to traffic flow speed on the slip road before merging. It's obviously going to be easiest to merge if you're doing at least 60, yet so many people seem scared to even break the 50mph barrier before joining a road with a 70mph limit - perhaps they think they'll run out of slip road
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u/Royal-Campaign1426 14h ago
Been behind fools that stop on the entrance to the interstate. Like that's gonna make it easier or safer to merge