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To: Fresh Wind

Worse is drivers in the slow lane who jam on brakes to allow others entering the roadway to merge in.


20 posted on 01/25/2024 5:29:52 AM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: sonova
Worse is drivers in the slow lane who jam on brakes to allow others entering the roadway to merge in.

They don't understand that they have the right of way, and if they are driving at a generally constant speed it is up to the car entering the highway to judge the speed and merge when safe.

29 posted on 01/25/2024 6:04:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: sonova

Worse is drivers in the slow lane who jam on brakes to allow others entering the roadway to merge in.


This is a very important point.

In NC there are many exits on the interstates that were built years ago and on them there is not sufficient length to slow down from 75 to the 35 MPH or in many cases 25 MPH to safely exit.

So at those exits drivers are slowing down while still in a thru lane and entering the interstate at very slow speeds.

52 thru Winston Salem, I-40 through Greensboro, and hundreds of others.

I have come within inches, no exaggeration, of a deadly accident three times last year because of persons who did not know how to accelerate to interstate speeds and merge.

I never again will go through any of those intersections in the right lane.


46 posted on 01/25/2024 8:54:38 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the government can not make worse)
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