[AT] Test

[Ron Cook]

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
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