No merge

Semi doesn't have to yield to merging traffic. Plus I wouldn't want to be behind a pickup that has a load that's not secured properly. And doesn't know how to use a turn signal either šŸ˜‰.
 
A Prius did that to me šŸ™
 
Flank, are the rules on merging the same in US as UK? That is, it is the responsibility of the driver on the slip road to match motorway speeds and find a slot to fit into? (more or less)
In which case, you look to have a shedload of space behind the white car at the start of your clip.
 
Yup it is, but like other "inconvenient" laws, it gets ignored frequently. I see drivers like that on a daily basis, when they have plenty of time to get up to speed and space to merge behind, and yet they feel it's their right to cut into fast flowing traffic at 20 mph below or absolutely must merge in front of someone else. When entering an onramp, I'm already nearly flooring the gas pedal to get the car up to traffic speed, looking for a space to merge into and adjusting the speed near the end of the onramp to match. I'm just amazed at the number of drivers who accelerate as if they're on a 30 mph road, then expect to merge into traffic moving at 65-70 mph.

KuoH

sludgeguts said:
Flank, are the rules on merging the same in US as UK? That is, it is the responsibility of the driver on the slip road to match motorway speeds and find a slot to fit into? (more or less)
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The proper way to merge here to do what I tried to do. Follow the broken painted line almost to the end of it. If I were to merge behind the white car, chaos would ensue. That is not how to merge here. Cars are not expecting that. Everyone's timing is based on that line and you follow it through. The Prius broken the unwritten rule.

The Prius really should have let me over but cars on the highway do have the right of way so if I didn't ultimately yield and turn in my man card, it would have been my fault.

Say if I were to merge behind the white car, any car that was behind me merging onto the highway would jump ahead of me now. They are given the space to do so. By me staying where I did, I'm keeping order in bumper to bumper traffic.
 
A few things to keep in mind.

1. A written rule superceeds any unwritten or imaginary rules.
2. It's not your job to manage traffic, bumper to bumper or otherwise.
3. Driving on public roads has nothing to do with a man card, but a valid license and following the written rules of the road are recommended, even required in some jurisdictions.

KuoH

flank said:
...The Prius broken the unwritten rule.

The Prius really should have let me over but cars on the highway do have the right of way so if I didn't ultimately yield and turn in my man card, it would have been my fault.

Say if I were to merge behind the white car, any car that was behind me merging onto the highway would jump ahead of me now. They are given the space to do so. By me staying where I did, I'm keeping order in bumper to bumper traffic.
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I found out that my merging lane is a highway lane as well. Neither of us had the right of way. That was my spot. Also, if you look at the video, you will notice a car merging behind the big rig at the same spot I tried to merge. There was no show down there.

http://www.pe.com/local-news/column...as-right-of-way-when-merging-onto-freeway.ece

But in the case of a freeway onramp, "the moment you enter the ramp, you're on a 'highway' already," the lieutenant said. The ramp is, in effect, its own freeway lane, which in turn merges with the rightmost one at the end of the ramp, he said.
 
At the end of UK sliproads (or onramps), white lines are painted indicating "give way" - and yet still, people treat it as though they should have right of way when coming down this lane.
Whilst this lane might well be its own 'highway', you treat it as any other minor road joining a major road, at the give way lines, you must stop and give way to vehicles on the main road. The difference being that sliproads (onramps) tend to allow the driver a fantastic view of the road he is planning to join, and this view lasts quite a long while, long enough to build up speed to match that of vehicles on the highway, see a gap big enough to slot into & go for said gap.
 
I'm going to take this road again tomorrow during similar traffic conditions. This is a very wide merging lane. I'll see how other merging cars do.
 

I tried to hit bumper to bumper traffic here but it was too early for it. But everyone merges at the end of the dotted line. That is the way it works here, its very fluid.
 
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