Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw (Bloomberg link only)

Bloomberg [Link Only] ^ | December 17, 2015 | Keith Naughton

[JimRed]

Nothing is more annoying than people who disrupt the flow of traffic on the interstate on ramp because they do not know how to "blend in."

There IS one thing more annoying; the driver who is in the lane into which you are trying to merge who speeds up to prevent it, even though there was room for the maneuver.

[Graybeard58]

I’ve attributed much of the crazy driving I’ve seen over the past decade or so to being too absorbed with the GPS

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Several years ago, I read about an Asian tourist in California who obeyed his GPS when it told him to make a right turn. He turned directly onto rail road tracks, a train was coming so he jumped out of the car to save his life but his rental car was totally destroyed.

[usconservative]

There IS one thing more annoying; the driver who is in the lane into which you are trying to merge who speeds up to prevent it, even though there was room for the maneuver.

There's one thing more annoying than that: The IDIOT who STOPS at the bottom of the ramp and blocks the merge lane forcing everyone else behind him to stop too!

Stupid sh*t like that gets people killed. I've seen it happen.

[RegulatorCountry]

A lot of people who learned to drive prior to the advent of interstate highways have always had trouble with the concept of merging. Combine that with timid drivers of all ages and you get a traffic jam on the on ramp, very difficult to get on if you can’t reach the speed of oncoming traffic.