"john" wrote in message
news:gi83j11aid8iupv9a7sqsm2ij27puagdjl@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:45:31 -0700, "Bernard Farquart"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"nobody" wrote in message
>>news:43310C5B.B92551F9@nobody.org...
>>> Brent P wrote:
>>>> The problems came in with the people who wouldn't accelerate properly
>>>> or
>>>> would have cars powerful enough to accelerate in just the last portion
>>>> of
>>>> the ramp and didn't care about who was behind them or good driving
>>>> practice. It's simply considerably easier to deal with them when one's
>>>> vehicle is more powerful.
>>>
>>> Get used to it. It is no different from begind behind some delivery
>>> truck, 18 wheeler, dump or other construction truck or school buses.
>>>
>>No, those vehicles will all be accelerating the length of the ramp, due to
>>the
>>fact that they are also slow accelerators.
>>
>>>
>>> And once you've retired your penis car (which oddly enough only
>>> exercises your right foot) to get a fuel efficient car, you won't notice
>>> that the car ahead of you is slow.
>>
>>I drive a Mercedes 240D, four cly diesel, and sometimes an 80 HP scout,
>>and slow mergers are a major PITA. you are missing the point, if you have
>>a slow car, slow mergers are MORE of a problem, in my 928, if someone is
>>merging slowly, I swing out and pull around with a flick of the wrist, and
>>a
>>bit of pressure on the go-pedal. It requires much more planning and
>>finesse in an "underpowered" car.
>
> So you PASS the slowly merging car before it has merged into the right
> most lane.
>
> That's illegal.
Way to completly miss the point by about a mile,
no, I don't cross the gravel-strewn wedge to the
left of the acceleration lane, I can perform that
manuver at the point the lane hits the freeway,
passing in the lane to the left of the shoulder
lane. Thanks for not addressing the whole point!
Bernard
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