[AT] Test

[Dean Vinson]

Ron, good point, I hadn't been considering it from the perspective of
driving of heavy truck, just was thinking of driving a car.

Dean

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You cannot be doing that with a loaded truck.  Sooner or later you will have
to stop because someone will not give you room enough to merge.  
Then you have big troubles getting 80,000 lbs moving at traffic speeds so as
to merge.  If I am aware of a closed lane ahead, I get in the through lane
as soon as possible, even if it is several miles.  As long as I am at or
above the speed limit, I am not hurting anyone.  I do get many one finger
salutes from the speeders, however.  But I am not changing.
I do, however, let people merge.  The sooner, the better.
Ron Cook
Salix, IA

On 8/9/2015 11:29 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> That's why, as stated below, "the correct thing is to use the full length
of
> the open lanes and don't merge until necessary."   100 cars only rush by
> when there's an open lane for them to be in.  If more people waited 
> until the end of the open lane to merge, there'd be less opportunity 
> for anyone else to zip past and less potential for traffic in the two 
> lanes to be moving at dangerously different speeds.
>
> I therefore try to use as much of the open lane as I can, but only at a
very
> reasonable speed.   But there's no perfect answer.  People who are
crawling
> along in the slow lane get upset at those who pass them in the 
> still-open lane rather than "waiting their turn like the rest of us," 
> and then will sometimes be very aggressive about NOT letting people 
> merge.  Angry and aggressive driving, like dramatically different speeds
in adjacent lanes, is
> inherently dangerous.   Not that I'm above getting angry myself.  Probably
a
> good thing that none of my cars has ever been equipped with the 
> .50-cal machines guns that I've occasionally wished for.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio