12-01-2015, 09:37 AM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
It's called "don't know how to merge"
I think they know how to merge. They've just watched everyone else do it as they blasted past them. They're willing to take advantage of a situation so they can reach their destination several seconds earlier because... they're couriers for Clinical Laboratories - Hawaii? Aunties insulin ran out?
Even pizza delivery guys on a 30 minute deadline don't resort to those tactics.
My unscientific observation from being cut off at the last possible moment at the new merge time after time, is that the people most likely to drive as far and as fast as possible up the right hand lane, before rudely forcing their way into a line of cars who had already done the merge, all the while driving a minimum of 55 MPH, are not the people driving old or small cars. These drivers are driving very new vehicles, usually SUVs or huge PU trucks, and are overwhelmingly young to middle age males. I've never been cut off like that by someone driving a "Puna cruiser" or by a woman of any age, or by someone in a small car. I think all that metal and horsepower just give some people a sense of entitlement, and maybe a sense of false security.
Right of way is not determined by tonnage!