I see so many YouTube videos of people running blatantly red lights and getting in accidents or other videos of people stopped and gunning it backwards, hitting something, then they put it in drive and launch full speed forwards and hit something else. What is going through these peoples mind? I just don’t get how there is such a high quantity of these videos.

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    1 year ago

    Not trying to argue because I see some dumb merging every day, but you’re supposed to use the whole merge lane to form a zipper or traffic starts to back up behind you unnecessarily. It’s as much about not blocking the intersection/ramp/merge that you just left as it is about merging the traffic onto the highway or whatever.

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      1 year ago

      Ah right, I forgot:

      “It’s actually better for traffic this way, no, really.”

      ;D

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        1 year ago

        I mean, yeah. I’m not saying to drive like an asshole and cut people off to get one car ahead but merging prematurely is counterproductive to the movement of traffic.

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          1 year ago

          Let’s say it this way: you should merge at the time that disrupts traffic the least. Not at the last second. And anyway I’m not talking about people who just use the whole lane, I’m talking about people who use every last inch before they are striking the barrier.

          I fail to see how merging early is necessarily bad for traffic. I don’t think it makes much difference to net throughput if you merge now or 500 feet before now. As long as you do it smoothly and safely with as little disruption to other cars as possible.