Freeway merge vigilantes WTF?!

[PNWbrit]

Maybe she's not giving it her all because he keeps saying shit like "let's let the turbos do the talking"?

I'd have thought he'd at least get the wastegate with above average turbo love chat like that?

[frorider]

Iceman and the Minn DOT are correct here, pretty basic stuff but commonly misunderstood. My only beef though is people who scream thru that partially open lane and then slam the brakes wildly a few yards before the final zipper op. Freeway wrecks tend to come from big differentials in adj lane speeds.

[neufox47]

Funny you mention it. Since we were 5 mins early and had some time to kill, the wife gave me a hummer in the parking lot. Either that, or we were fighting about something. I can't remember which.

We all knew you were bullshitting when you said wife...

Can Google make real self driving cars so we don't have to operate our vehicles already!? Its 2014, traffic is going to suck as long as humans are individually behind the wheel.

I have a dream that when a light turns green all the cars start accelerating at once. Where traffic never stops on the interstate, the average speed is over 100mph, average mpg is 50 thanks to drafting, and driving is not the most common way for 16-40 year olds to die...

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[Lindahl]

Here's a question:

When approaching the lift line with alternating queues, do you:

A) line up in the one with lots of people because it's the right thing, the fair thing, because they've all been waiting there before you; or

B) do you line up in the line right next to it with only 1 group waiting ahead of you; or

C) tell ski patrol that singles are using the group lane.

Love it!

[Lindahl]

But where's choice D) Go through the ski school line and tell everyone else "sorry, you're all going to have to wait for me. I'm too important to wait!"

Dumbass...

[ill-advised strategy]

Oh so now we should all fear your good ol boy bullshit.

Your hometown must suck if people are going to hold a grudge because you told them some guy passed you LIKE A MANIAC!

Your big city must suck because anybody who wants to be a prick just goes ahead and does it with no consequences.

[philth]

Wrong. It's social order. The more efficient operation is merging where traffic is moving. Congestion slows traffic and reduces overall volume. This is well-modeled and empirical. Notice how fast traffic is moving once you're past the merging?

But really, it's people double-cheating, slowing everyone down, and cutting in front of those waiting their turn.

Self-policing is the key to these kinds of public access issues. Look into congestion pricing, and more generally Ostrom, nobel in Econ.

Dedicated lane police nazi here.

Uhhhg. Eat a bag of dicks. Your life must be delightful.

[Swine]

People tailgating who refuse to leave space for merging traffic and the generally incredible inability to take turns at anything, anywhere, are the primary factors that cause this. There is a merge here in SLC that I drive daily, and I would say 4/5 times a week, I have someone match speeds to drive directly alongside me until it chokes to one lane, regardless of how I might vary my speed to try to get some space between us. Usually it's irrelevant because the same behavior has already happened a dozen times over, despite this being a lengthy, straightforward merge where it would be incredibly easy to alternate.

I don't care if you have some irrational need to be first, but just fucking pass me then, don't drive alongside me, forcing traffic to come to a stop at the choke, right before an uphill, left lane merge. Fuck, I hate Utah drivers.

7th or 13th exit off of 80?

Utah drivers suck more than any place I've ever been. I watched a guy sit at a left hand turn through TWO green left turn arrows yesterday. Inexplicable.

[ill-advised strategy]

Is there even one person in this thread who drives in traffic 40+ hours a week? Anybody driven a 70 foot truck all over the country? I tend to doubt it.

The answer is that if everyone is getting into the open lane early, you don't race ahead like a douche and if everyone is waiting until the last possible moment you don't block them from getting over or block them from pulling ahead like a douche.

Either douche should lose their license. The blockade sucks, the cunt racing around everyone sucks. Just perceive what the overall strategy is and go with it.

[KQ]

Wow - road rage on the Internet. Who knew?

[MMP]

It's really important to completely ignore the idiots attempting to block you from using the open lane until the merge. No need to let them see you acknowledge their overly tuned sense of justice and need to defend society. Nitwits.

[smitchell333]

All that you need to know is that zippering at the point of closure and not before "Reduces the overall length of traffic backup by as much as 40 percent"

It's better for you and everyone else.

Once I was driving I-80 in Wyoming with some snow falling when a line of Traffic appeared in the right lane going very slow- presumably for some merge point ahead. Instead of getting in line I proceeded to pass on the left at a safe speed. A semi truck ahead decided he didn't like it so pulled into a position blocking both lanes. I followed for a few miles until I got a chance and then passed him in the emergency lane on the right.

The merge? There wasn't one. Just a bunch of morons assuming they had to get in line and wait their turn. And that Trucker Fucker thinking he had to police everyone else.

[MMP]

Same people that clog the toll plaza with their refusal to get an EZ Pass. Also that wait in line at the first urinal instead of walking to the last one with no line. Smarten up.

[Meadow Skipper]

Same people that clog the toll plaza with their refusal to get an EZ Pass. Also that wait in line at the first urinal instead of walking to the last one with no line. Smarten up.

Related question:'You walk into the rest room and there's a line, but no one is using the handicap access shitter. Okay to walk by the sheeple and use that one?

[MMP]

Ok or not, I would. Is that wrong? It doesn't say handicap use only.

[BigDaddy]

Damn, handicap is nothing... I've gone as low as used the ladies room (as long as no one is looking, it's not busy and is just a single).

And how many concerts do you see chicks trying to merge in the mens room?.... it all evens out

[Meadow Skipper]

I've had people get pissed off when I walked past the line to the empty stall. "Handicap only!"

Probably merge nazis too.

[Flounder]

Recently (within the last year) this was an issue in Vermont. Ongoing lane closure on the interstate and a problem with the "merge nazis". Staties showed up one day and started ticketing the "merge nazis". Also did a press release stating to merge at the merge point. Blocking both lanes a mile out is illegal and they will ticket. I'm now the prick zipping up until the merge point. Don't want to break the law!

[Lindahl]

Related question:'You walk into the rest room and there's a line, but no one is using the handicap access shitter. Okay to walk by the sheeple and use that one?

Of course use it. The sign is only to indicate that the stall is handicap accessible. If someone rolls in, well, they should probably get it next, but that's different.

[iceman]

So I got towed the other day. Downtown Providence RI. One side of the street there's a mall, the other side is a park. Parking spaces on the park side of the street, empty spot right on the corner, I grab it, check the signs, all is good. No heads on the parking meters, that's odd. Oh well. In retrospect this was way too good to be true, of course.

So when I get back the truck is gone. WTF? I call the cops, while I'm walking around on hold I realize that the first six spots are handicap spots. There's one small sign six car lengths up. I never saw it. I'm a little pissed, I mean whoever heard of six handicap spots on a street, in front of a park? Are the handicapped people going for a walk in the park? Then they're not fucking handicapped, amiright? But oh well. I shoulda known it was too good to be true.

So I track the truck down, taxi to the ghetto-est part of Providence that I have ever seen, by far. Drug markets on the corners, crowds of people on the street, cops blazing by with sirens, it's the fuckin hood. I actually beat the towtruck there, my truck is still on the flatbed. Couldn't have missed him back at the spot by five minutes. Oh well. Just my luck.

But I'm talking to the tow guy, he's sympathetic, agrees one sign six cars up is stupid, agrees handicapped spots for a park is weird, but when I mention the part about no heads on the meters he shrugs and says, " Well you shoulda known by that." I ask what he means. "Handicapped don't have to pay for parking, man"

What? Wait, what? They get the best spots, no one is ever in them, but if they do happen to decide today is the day they're going for a roll in the park they don't even have to pay???

Crazy fucking world.

[The AD]

"Handicapped don't have to pay for parking, man"

I knew this and never understood it, either. I've certainly got no problem with handicapped people getting priority parking, but I don't understand why they should also get it for free.

[iceman]

Yeah it's probably common knowledge but I had no idea. Figured the meters were broken or stolen or something. It was after the hours when I would have had to pay anyways so I just shrugged it off. Live and learn.

[::: :::]

They just changed this in portland
Now they will be charging HC parking cuz some folks have been gaming the system by using the metered spots as all-day commuter parking or worse long term downtown parking
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...qual_free.html

[MMP]

Damn, handicap is nothing... I've gone as low as used the ladies room (as long as no one is looking, it's not busy and is just a single).

And how many concerts do you see chicks trying to merge in the mens room?.... it all evens out

There's girls at the shows you go to? Weird.

[PNWbrit]

I've had people get pissed off when I walked past the line to the empty stall. "Handicap only!"

Probably merge nazis too.

and this one belongs here....