New law I missed??? Merging traffic?

[Industrial Toys]

I notice that here too. If you are coming on the highway, do something, to merge into traffic. They don't, just like some kind of zombie.

As far as the tailgaters, that's just about everyone here. Not a brain cell among the lot.

 

[ededic]

I notice that here too. If you are coming on the highway, do something, to merge into traffic. They don't, just like some kind of zombie.

As far as the tailgaters, that's just about everyone here. Not a brain cell among the lot.

Self driving cars will yield and are programed to be more courteous than your average driver. Something to look forward to.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I am considering buying and installing a dashcam in my truck. A rear facing cam might be helpful as well. Is there a setup with both forward and rearward cams already on the market?

 

[paulfun9]

As far as I know the merging traffic has to yield to the flow of highway traffic. When I get on an on ramp I check the slow lane traffic and adjust my speed to merge without disrupting the highway flow.

Not to hi jack your post but wanted to state another fact I see a lot.
What I hate is when road crews are working, say on a three lane highway. They post 55 MPH signs almost a mile before the construction area along with signs that say right two lanes closed ahead merge left. As soon as I see the sign I slow to the 55 limit and merge to the left lane only to be passed on the right by everyone else. 80 % of drivers continue at the 65 limit and do not slow down or merge until the last minute. This creates a bottleneck and slows traffic to almost a stop.
If all drivers would slow down and merge when they see the signs traffic would flow through the construction area at the 55 limit and there would be less road rage.

I bottle neck isn't caused by waiting till your closer to the closed lane but rather by people who do not Know how to merge into moving traffic and others who hit the panic button when someone around them does then we have those that slow to 30 and 35 right at the start of the construction area that are also major contributors to this.
Other factors are those who would never be bothered if you flew by in the left lane and they never saw you again when no construction exists but for some reason are bothered by you getting in front of them before the construction zone, so they close up any gaps in the lane making it impossible to merge smoothly.

 

[sandman2234]

I am considering buying and installing a dashcam in my truck. A rear facing cam might be helpful as well. Is there a setup with both forward and rearward cams already on the market?

We use one at work that has forward, rearward, sound, gps, speed, compass. They were about $400 when the school bought about 15 of them. Now they are considering changing them out to one that has the ability to send the video to them without them having to remove the 60 megabyte card. They really take good pictures in the daylight, not sure how they would do at night, as I am usually at home by then.
David from jax

 

[Mikeeemo]

Of all of the behaviors mentioned, no one mentioned the ‘let’s merge while playing with my phone’. I know that can be a whole new category, but I have seen it occur...

 

[Dftodd]

Never realized how bad many drivers are at merging until I bought a RV. An awful lot of people must not have taken a driver training course. :confused2:

My twin brother and I went to highschool in separate states. My drivers ed class was real world driving, in traffic, in the city, in the small town, in sleet, rain and snow. If it was your block to go driving, you drove. I went through drivers ed in Vermont, and took the drivers test for my liscense as soon as I turned 16 in the middle of a snow storm.


My brother went through drivers ed in Florida. His total drivers ed class took place on what was called a driving range. Not the ones for golf They literally drove in circles on a course a little bigger then a large round about. They then get handed a completion certificate to take to the tag office, where they pay a fee, hand them the certificate and they get handed license No real world drivers test. No teaching them how to parallel park, no starting on a hill with out rolling backwards, ect.......

My point being, that some states, drivers education and training is a joke and folks get handed there drivers license.

Best city I've ever driven in, even though the traffic is bump your head ridiculous is Denver Colorado. As long as you use your turn signal, someone will ease off and let you merge without any fuss. Most other areas I've been in, it takes an act of Congress to get someone to allow you to merge onto the interstate in bumper to bumper traffic.

 

[Dftodd]

I notice that here too. If you are coming on the highway, do something, to merge into traffic. They don't, just like some kind of zombie.

As far as the tailgaters, that's just about everyone here. Not a brain cell among the lot.

I absolutely love tailgaters when I'm driving my F550 service truck. They will hug the bumper, get madder and madder, and stew about the fact that I won't move over. When I don't have a clue that they are back there till they pop out on one side so I can see them with a mirror.

My favorite though was when I was coming to a stop and the truck jumped from 30 to 50 mph, then came to a sudden and complete stop in the middle of the road. Went to pull out of the road to see what happened. Truck stalled. Put it into granny gear, and started creeping out of the road. At this point, I start hearing a horn honk After I get out of the road, I walk back and see a mid sized car attached to the trailer hitch on my truck :cool2:

 

[LMychajluk]

A couple of years ago, they opened a new traffic pattern by my house. On a major 6-lane highway, they widened an overpass over a river and created 2 'side lanes' for exiting / entering vehicles. There's now a 'pre-exit' that leads to the 2 side lanes, with the right lane being an on-ramp from the local streets that has a sharp turn just before merging, so you're going real slow at the beginning of the ramp. At the end of the overpass the right lane is an off ramp onto another road, while the left lane feeds back onto the main highway. Cars have the entire length of the overpass (at least a 1/4 mile) to merge left or right as needed. You would think that cars coming off the main road would actually wait to merge right until they've slowed a bit and are at least 1/2 way across the overpass, getting behind the cars that came up the on ramp and are accelerating while merging left, but no.... they come in off that main road at 70mph and immediately dive into the right lane while at the same time trying to stay in front of the cars coming up the on ramp, usually not even travelling far enough to pass the solid white line at the end of the off ramp.

I think that ramp was open for about a month when a car coming off the highway sideswiped a motorcycle coming up the on ramp, knocking the rider over the side and into the river.

 

[George2615]

I am considering buying and installing a dashcam in my truck. A rear facing cam might be helpful as well. Is there a setup with both forward and rearward cams already on the market?

Yes, there are dual camera dash cams at reasonable prices. I looked at a few but settled on a single dash cam setup. I bought the one as seen on TV.

I bottle neck isn't caused by waiting till your closer to the closed lane but rather by people who do not Know how to merge into moving traffic and others who hit the panic button when someone around them does then we have those that slow to 30 and 35 right at the start of the construction area that are also major contributors to this.
Other factors are those who would never be bothered if you flew by in the left lane and they never saw you again when no construction exists but for some reason are bothered by you getting in front of them before the construction zone, so they close up any gaps in the lane making it impossible to merge smoothly.

The bottleneck is usually caused by an accident due to the idiots that don't merge early enough. They wait till the last second to merge because they are in a hurry. The smart ones that did slow down and merge early don't want to let the ones in a hurry cut in front of them. If everyone slowed down and merged back at the first traffic warning sign traffic would flow through the construction zone without any problem.