Rules Of The Road???

[slimt]

i saw this literally like 3 mins before reading this topic,lol !!

Love that type of Canadian content. Fitting.

 

[Slap Stick]

Left lane losers, my lord, left lane losers get the hell over.. AND merging traffic , when they see someone getting on to the highway, they friggin freeze like they don't know to speed up, move over or slow down ..they put there brakes on as the idiot getting on slows down to get behind the right lane idiot .. finally their both doing 15 mph on the 55 mph road... man is it really that hard, I see it all the time..

Sorry, if you are on the highway you have right of way. It is the other drivers job to match speed and merge.
What am I supposed to do-slow down? That causes the drivers behind me do the same. Or am I supposed to cut off the driver in the next lane so I can "be nice" to someone not even on the highway?
Using that logic I should stop on a city street to allow someone on a side street or parking lot into traffic.
Nope.
On the highway merging traffic must merge. Traffic on the highway should hold speed constant. Learn to merge!

 

[mopar 3 B]

Sorry, if you are on the highway you have right of way. It is the other drivers job to match speed and merge.
What am I supposed to do-slow down? That causes the drivers behind me do the same. Or am I supposed to cut off the driver in the next lane so I can "be nice" to someone not even on the highway?
Using that logic I should stop on a city street to allow someone on a side street or parking lot into traffic.
Nope.
On the highway merging traffic must merge. Traffic on the highway should hold speed constant. Learn to merge!

Its totally amazing the people that do not know how to get on the highway. I only move over for the losers if time and space permits. I have had some really pissed people that have run down to the end of the acceleration lane just to find the road has ended.

 

[Slap Stick]

In fact, they used to have yield signs on the onramp. Don't know why they stopped using them.

 

[Dibbons]

Video: How to use freeway/highway onramp:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+to+merge+on+the+freeway?&rlz=1C5CHFA_enMX843MX843&oq=hot+to+merge+on+the+freeway?&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.6469j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_l8M5XbHiKY3AsAX8xozYDg26

I suppose it would be best to rename "onramp" to "acceleration lane". The first freeways in Los Angeles (circa 1960's) were engineered correctly, with the freeway lanes dug in below the grade of the city. This design made the onramps (acceleration lanes) in a downgrade angle and and the offramps in an uphill angle. This made is easier to accelerate and to come to a stop, depending on which type of ramp you were using.

Later in Los Angeles, when the freeway system was expanded (as an afterthought) the freeways were built over the city streets. This reversed the properly engineered ramps and made the acceleration lanes oriented uphill and the offramps oriented downhill, just what you don't want.

During my California Highway Patrol field training in South Los Angeles in 1983, I can still remember driving a 318 Dodge Diplomat patrol car onto one of the "uphill" oriented onramps. The vehicle was so out of tune that by the time I reached the end of the short acceleration lane I was not even up to traffic flow speed (and this is when the legal speed limit had been lowered to 55 MPH). I had to brake sharply to avoid a collision. Where is the 440 Polara when you need one?

 

[44070dart]

Between the ignorance shown with merging traffic and traffic circles alone, it's no wonder 40,000 people are killed each year as they screw up daily driving. I hate to point out any group, BUT young girl are the worst. Either they're timid and always on the brakes OR aggressive and it's my world attitude so get out of the way or I'll tailgate you like NASCAR. They should be more attentive than anyone because of inexperience, yet they have to screw with those friggin phones, the radio, or their hair instead of driving. IMHO they also have a harder time learning to drive because it takes hand and eye coordination and they don't play,( for the most part) the sports that boys do where they can learn that skill.

When I taught my daughter, I noticed she had no concept of where the track of the tires were, and how a slight turning of the wheel had a large effect on the car. After our first trip out on the road, (after she was so SURE she could drive NOW) turned into a fiasco, I took her to a large cemetery to drive for a few days a week for a month without traffic around. After that, we hit the road, and she did very well. I gave her my years of experience and also sent her to drive ed classes.

Today I would have to say she is a very good defensive driver. Always aware of who is behind her to her left or right, looking far down the road, watching taillights and always looking for an out. Proud of her, and confident in her abilities , especially happy since she travels with my granddaughters aboard.

 

[Dibbons]

My spouse is a good driver, except she has no concept on the traffic behind her. Slammed on her brakes the other day to stop for a family approaching a crosswalk. She stopped way before the crosswalk because of the lightning speed manner of her stop.

Next thing you know, some old dilapidated pickup strikes us from behind. Yes, the other driver's "fault", but why did the wife stop like that, didn't she know she might surprise someone from behind? Answer, "no". That thought is always on my mind, however.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Video: How to use freeway/highway onramp:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+to+merge+on+the+freeway?&rlz=1C5CHFA_enMX843MX843&oq=hot+to+merge+on+the+freeway?&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.6469j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_l8M5XbHiKY3AsAX8xozYDg26

I suppose it would be best to rename "onramp" to "acceleration lane". The first freeways in Los Angeles (circa 1960's) were engineered correctly, with the freeway lanes dug in below the grade of the city. This design made the onramps (acceleration lanes) in a downgrade angle and and the offramps in an uphill angle. This made is easier to accelerate and to come to a stop, depending on which type of ramp you were using.

Later in Los Angeles, when the freeway system was expanded (as an afterthought) the freeways were built over the city streets. This reversed the properly engineered ramps and made the acceleration lanes oriented uphill and the offramps oriented downhill, just what you don't want.

During my California Highway Patrol field training in South Los Angeles in 1983, I can still remember driving a 318 Dodge Diplomat patrol car onto one of the "uphill" oriented onramps. The vehicle was so out of tune that by the time I reached the end of the short acceleration lane I was not even up to traffic flow speed (and this is when the legal speed limit had been lowered to 55 MPH). I had to brake sharply to avoid a collision. Where is the 440 Polara when you need one?

Do not confuse acceleration and deceleration lanes with on and off ramps. The acceleration and deceleration lane are attached to the freeway. The ramp is not.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

What's wrong with high beams?

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I knew there was a reason I kept my California State Headlight Inspection License....

 

[mopar 3 B]

I have had a few that did not like my perfectly aligned low beams. They sure did not like the high beams and gave up on flashing their darn lights.

 

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[mopar 3 B]

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Those have got to be low beams.

 

[Slap Stick]

But they weren't so low the women didn't need to lift their skirts....

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

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