You make really good sense. We all have to make allowances for other vehicles on the road, even if they're doing something we don't like or even if they're doing something really stupid.
It's how it is out there. Insisting on your right of way could easily lead to an accident where you and others are hurt. I will always yield the right of way if there's any danger in insisting on it. It just makes sense.
If someone is merging onto a freeway I'm on and there is the potential for a conflict, I will slow to make space for them to merge or, if practical, will speed up to give them space behind me. That's just the polite thing to do.
I stay right, except to pass. However, if there are three lanes of traffic, I drive the speed limit in the center lane with no apologies. I avoid mergers and anyone may pass me on the left. If there are more than three lanes, I will take the lane next to the right lane if it is moving at the speed limit. Otherwise, I will take the lane to the right of the left lane.
Always, however, I will move over a lane if someone is overtaking me and it is safe to do so.
So far, I've been driving for 45 years, with no accidents and just one ticket that I got in 1971. I've driven everything from a 16-wheeler to a motorcycle.
"However, if there are three lanes of traffic, I drive the speed limit in the center lane with no apologies. "
Just s friendly note...in CT that center lane is the truckers "fast lane"...so you'll likely have an 80,000 pound rig millimeters off your back bumper. Guess who's gonna lose in that fight?
"You make really good sense. We all have to make allowances for other vehicles on the road, even if they're doing something we don't like or even if they're doing something really stupid."
Thanks. Yep, like it or not we have to share the road with a lot of people, some of whom honestly just aren't very skilled or knowledgeable in the rules of the road or the operation of their vehicle. And that "idiot" who's trying to merge in at the last moment may be a tourist or out of towner who didn't realize they had to be there until the last moment. I try to be forgiving and understanding - it's not a race, after all - although it really tries my patience sometimes.
I'll admit, sometimes I toy with the obvious agressive idiots who think they're more important than everyone else on the road. My favourites are the ones who weave from the left to right lanes to try and get ahead 1 or 2 cars (while you're sitting in the middle or left lanes in a line of cars). I like to let them make their move and then position myself so they get stuck in the right hand lane behind some slow vehicle. I'm probably aggravating their already limited brainpower, but it's so satisfying - you can see them practically chewing their steering wheel when you shut the door on them like that.