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With the threads about Jerks holding up traffic and Slow merging, here's a poll.
All things considered, will you let a driver get in front of you or do you do your best to keep them behind you? This means merging at the end of a lane or on ramp, coming up on an exit or whatever the situation may be.
I will if they seem to know what they're doing. If they've slowed down to 30 on a highway to change lanes, or are merging from an onramp but going 30 with the brakes on, and now want to swerve in front of me, it's not gonna happen.
Driving along in the middle of a freeway and someone properly signaling from either side, always.
Drivers merging into the same freeway I had to merge into, of course!
I would say a slight exception to these general rules is that in dense traffic situations I don't like to follow high profile vehicles blocking my view of what's happening in the roadway ahead so I am rather covetous of my positioning with any small, low vehicle ahead of me, thus I am not going to be as amenable to a SUV or tall lifted truck taking that away from me when their positioning will effectively be the same behind me. Where as if you are driving a small car and getting between me and a tall vehicle I go out of my way to let encourage you and let you in! Truck owners, I'm not trying to be rude, just safe.
Rude, self entitled azzholes trying to force their way into a long filled up offramp NEVER! No, you didn't just happen to forget that that long line miles back to get into this offramp was for this ramp, you rudely and blatantly do this every day! Now, if you had an out of state license I would probably believe that you did miss this offramp and let you in.
The vast majority of the time I am driving this is a non-issue. There is more than sufficient room between me and the car in front of me that anyone driving normally can just merge in.
I have been known on occassion to step on the gas when I see the car who has cut across multiple lanes of traffic multiple times trying to get in front of me.
2) Does that driver weave around traffic or not? I hate drivers who pass 1 car just to squeeze ahead of you with a passion and I go out of my way to try to not let people like that in (unless there's a HUGE gap ahead of me.)
Driving along in the middle of a freeway and someone properly signaling from either side, always.
Drivers merging into the same freeway I had to merge into, of course!
I would say a slight exception to these general rules is that in dense traffic situations I don't like to follow high profile vehicles blocking my view of what's happening in the roadway ahead so I am rather covetous of my positioning with any small, low vehicle ahead of me, thus I am not going to be as amenable to a SUV or tall lifted truck taking that away from me when their positioning will effectively be the same behind me. Where as if you are driving a small car and getting between me and a tall vehicle I go out of my way to let encourage you and let you in! Truck owners, I'm not trying to be rude, just safe.
Rude, self entitled azzholes trying to force their way into a long filled up offramp NEVER! No, you didn't just happen to forget that that long line miles back to get into this offramp was for this ramp, you rudely and blatantly do this every day! Now, if you had an out of state license I would probably believe that you did miss this offramp and let you in.
Usually, but mainly if they signal and let me know. If it's some loser who had plenty of room behind me to work with and no signal to boot, the gap in front of me closes really quickly.
Nobody likes the guy who crosses three lanes and white stripes (median) to get off as if he was in labor when the next exit does the job just as well...
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