On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:15:50 -0700, "Bernard Farquart"
wrote:
>
>"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
>
The lane to the left of the shoulder lane is the lane that the
so-called slow vehicle is trying to merge into. It's the right most
lane of the freeway.
In effect, you are on the on ramp trying to pass a vehicle. |