• Jtee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If lane 2 is closed ahead, and you’re in lane 1, I think it’s a jerk move to leave lane 1 to try to rush ahead a few cars and cut someone off when you need back into lane 1

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        1 year ago

        If you erratically jump into my lane, barely a foot ahead of my car, you are cutting me off.

        I flow with traffic and leave room for people to merge. But I people right behind me leave the lane and speed by to get one car ahead. It’s pointless.

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          If you erratically jump into my lane, barely a foot ahead of my car, you are cutting me off.

          If you only left 16" of space in front of your car for me to merge into because you think you’ve got the moral high ground due to having merged sooner than needed, then you deserve to get cut off.

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      Youre letting your sense of “fairness” override good sense.

      Using both of the available lanes and efficiently merging from two to one lanes at a designated point instead of at random is far safer and faster than people randomly merging from lane 2 into lane 1 when they are 34 cars back, or 16, or 5, or 105, each time stopping or slowing traffic in lane 2 and lane 1. Those people are being inconsiderate, unsafe, and inefficient. Stop blocking flowing traffic to merge poorly.

      Use both lanes, especially if one is open. Dont merge early. Zipper merge at an expected and predictable point so traffic can flow safely instead of start and stop.