New law I missed??? Merging traffic?

[GLyford]

Last week I followed a car for about 4 blocks. It stopped at every intersection even though the stop sign was for cross traffic only.

I think that was to compensate for the little old lady behind me on the way home yesterday. Went through two 4-way stop intersections without stopping at all (except for me stopping in front of her) with traffic waiting their turn at the other streets. Surprised she didn't get hit or even yelled at.

Fortunately I got out of her way when I turned onto my street and she kept going. Half expected her to tailgate me into the driveway.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Pretty sure the Taliban has initiated new rules for the Autobahn anyway. Thanks Merkel! Good Job!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Maybe the boy scouts are a threat to the Government. Hey, boys in the woods just might get the crazy notion that they need a gun some day. A boy in the basement playing video games isn't likely to be such a threat, unless of course he becomes a hacker.

 

[mcfarmall]

Getting back to the OP from 2011, (I love resurrected old threads!) in Michigan, the merging traffic is supposed to match the speed of the highway traffic before attempting to merge. In my case this presents a bit of a problem. When towing a load like a tractor on a trailer or my travel trailer, I typically don't exceed the speed rating of my trailer tires (65 mph) so it's difficult to match the speed of the traffic flow which in congested areas can be upwards of 85-90 mph...no joke.

 

[Dftodd]

Getting back to the OP from 2011, (I love resurrected old threads!) in Michigan, the merging traffic is supposed to match the speed of the highway traffic before attempting to merge. In my case this presents a bit of a problem. When towing a load like a tractor on a trailer or my travel trailer, I typically don't exceed the speed rating of my trailer tires (65 mph) so it's difficult to match the speed of the traffic flow which in congested areas can be upwards of 85-90 mph...no joke.

Had the same issue in Florida towing a trailer and trying to merge onto the toll roads where traffic is congested and traveling 75 plus MPH. There is definitely an art to merging into traffic with a vehicle with slow acceleration. Boss followed me once onto a toll road. I was driving the F550 flat bed with 30ft goose neck trailer rounded with equipment. He was behind me with my F550 service truck with out a trailer. He about had a heart attack when I eased on over and made a hole in traffic

 

[Jstpssng]

Jeese, I read the whole NINE pages while my blood pressure ramped up like a little 'old lady Sunday driving up the on ramp to heii!
Born in '52, got license 17 years later. In America, those on the highway at whatever speed they're traveling have the right of way, OVER those trying, however pathetically, to merge into traffic.
Too bad, and so sad if people who don't understand the meaning of either merge or yield want us/me to merge left for THEIR convenience!
Tough! Those who often do merge left to let the on ramp person find their way by braile onto the highway are reinforcing the notion that whoever wants access to the highway/interstate is to be immediately granted that 'hole' in traffic no matter road conditions, traffic already at speed, etc. Stop moving out of the merge lane traffic and let them get the message- WAIT your turn to merge! Maybe we'll get lucky and how things used to work will come back- just like coal mining! HA!

And as far as redoing our country's laws to match the Autobahn - F no!
Even if we wanted too there are way, way, way too many dumbazzesses here to fill a huge trainload of idiots who can't read, are situationally un-aware of their surroundings, on Meth, crackoid, etc.clogging all roads leading to anywhereville.
More laws, or changing the entire way we here in America, home of the free, land of the driving impaired is NEVER going to adjust to a completely new set of regulations/rules/laws, whatever.
The driving less car will likely get the job done eventually, after enough algorithims are run to eliminate all the mistakes 'real' human drivers wrack up everyday.

In the meantime all onramps, whether going up or down, shall immediately have tire shredders installed, which will instantly pop up when anyone from MA tries to outrun my or any of my friends cars/trucks etc. as I speed up in the right lane to block access by anyone trying to merge into my lane, EXCEPT if they get behind me and draft my bumper long enough to bring them up to the speed of already travelling traffic. Problem solved, case closed. You have a nice day!

BTW, some of you guys really need to read up on what a paragraph looks like. Running one sentence into another and no paragraph breaks is dammm near impossible to read!

Carry on, and wait your dammm turn to get onto the highway, and do so without screwing it up for those already on the road- or don't leave your shack, or move to Germany, or someplace with even weirder rules...

I understand what you're saying but- if there's nobody in the left lane, is it too much to expect you to show a little courtesy and pull over?
I used to get a kick out of driving in your state; coming out of Burlington on a Sunday night, headed for the ferry into NY. The left lane would be full while I would be all alone in the right lane, keeping up with the speed of traffic. Conversely on the way home Friday night after working for a few weeks, doing about 9 over until a car would come flying up out of nowhere and start riding my bumper. It's either a State Trooper or Massole driver, and the SP would have the courtesy to dim his lights.

Last week I followed a car for about 4 blocks. It stopped at every intersection even though the stop sign was for cross traffic only. Then it came to a signaled intersection with a green light, stopped and waved across the pedestrians that were waiting. After they crossed, it continued. I turned left. I wonder what else the driver did.

:shocked:

Bruce

You must have been behind my coworker. He will stop because "Somebody might not stop for that stop sign". Meanwhile I'm looking in the mirror, hoping that a tractor trailer doesn't come flying up behind us without noticing that we are stopped for no obvious reason.
He stopped to let someone jaywalk from the other side of the street, waiting for the oncoming traffic to clear; "got to be courteous" (OK, she wasn't that bad looking, but still...) Meanwhile I'm again looking in the mirror, wondering how courteous the drivers of the cars piling up behind us feel; especially those who will need to sit through another red light because we are being "courteous."

Getting back to the OP from 2011, (I love resurrected old threads!) in Michigan, the merging traffic is supposed to match the speed of the highway traffic before attempting to merge. In my case this presents a bit of a problem. When towing a load like a tractor on a trailer or my travel trailer, I typically don't exceed the speed rating of my trailer tires (65 mph) so it's difficult to match the speed of the traffic flow which in congested areas can be upwards of 85-90 mph...no joke.

Getting back to my comment to Coyote machine; while headed down the offramp you bring it up to speed , looking in the mirror to make sure that you have room. Instead the guy you would be pulling in front of speeds up and starts flashing his lights in an obvious F-U gesture, so that you need to slow and pull onto the breakdown lane; as he pulls into the wide open outside lane because he sped up too fast and is about to hit the car in front of him.

 

[Coyote machine]

I do not see why it needs to be complicated if everyone does what they should be doing. I'm in right hand lane, car, truck, bus, plane wants to merge, they can do it AFTER I pass, IF there is room and time to get into the right hand lane. If there isn't time, HP, or skill set to merge, stay home.

The make everyone move left is ridiculous, and isn't about courtesy. People don't know how to drive to begin with - everyone moving a lane left so a on ramp vehicle can enter traffic is unnecessary and just plain dumb. Each lane holds their lane, merging traffic merges as an opening allows. If there is no opening wait until there is one. End of story, case closed. Problem solved. Next case!:confused3:

 

[goeduck]

Around here metro traffic can be so thick that right lane traffic cannot safely move left. Merging vehicles need to find a spot or wait. 99% of the time if they are not aggressive, a vehicle in the right lane will let them in. So be courteous, life is short.

 

[Jstpssng]

I do not see why it needs to be complicated if everyone does what they should be doing. I'm in right hand lane, car, truck, bus, plane wants to merge, they can do it AFTER I pass, IF there is room and time to get into the right hand lane. If there isn't time, HP, or skill set to merge, stay home.

The make everyone move left is ridiculous, and isn't about courtesy. People don't know how to drive to begin with - everyone moving a lane left so a on ramp vehicle can enter traffic is unnecessary and just plain dumb. Each lane holds their lane, merging traffic merges as an opening allows. If there is no opening wait until there is one. End of story, case closed. Problem solved. Next case!:confused3:

You are the one creating a bottleneck. If there's nobody in the left lane, there's absolutely no reason you can't move over. Yet as I pointed out before some people will speed up just to ensure that you can't get out.

Around here metro traffic can be so thick that right lane traffic cannot safely move left. Merging vehicles need to find a spot or wait. 99% of the time if they are not aggressive, a vehicle in the right lane will let them in. So be courteous, life is short.

That's one thing that I've noticed about more congested areas; if you put on your blinker for a lane change, people will back off to let you in if they can safely do so. In more rural areas where there's less traffic; putting on your blinker is a warning for people to speed up and block you off. We've morphed from the original post however, written by a truck driver commenting on people who expect you to yield so that they can enter the highway. That type needs to go back to driver's ed.

 

[Coyote machine]

You are the one creating a bottleneck. If there's nobody in the left lane, there's absolutely no reason you can't move over. Yet as I pointed out before some people will speed up just to ensure that you can't get out.

So say you- I'm not creating anything- just exercising my right to drive on the roads my taxes pay for. There's absolutely no reason, or law compelling me to move left just because some moron wants to jump onto the highway in front of me. Giving in to someone's mistaken notion that it is my obligation to let them in from the merge lane defeats the whole purpose of a merge lane. You feel the need to feed their delusion- be my guest. See below, your own comment on need for reeducation of clueless drivers.

That's one thing that I've noticed about more congested areas; if you put on your blinker for a lane change, people will back off to let you in if they can safely do so. In more rural areas where there's less traffic; putting on your blinker is a warning for people to speed up and block you off. We've morphed from the original post however, written by a truck driver commenting on people who expect you to yield so that they can enter the highway. That type needs to go back to driver's ed.

I agree on need for reeducation of clueless mergers.