Merge-impaired gap crasher
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From: Alexander Rogge on 22 Mar 2010 03:05 I believe that this was my first incident involving a merge-impaired gap crasher. I was going slowly in the right lane, following another car at a speed of 80. Another car was on the merge lane ahead. There was plenty of lane remaining on the acceleration lane to continue accelerating and merge in front of the car that was in front of me. The merger was already in front of that car, but was playing a speed-matching game instead of accelerating. Instead of continuing to merge, the merger braked hard, flicked on its turn signal, and started to merge quickly into my side. I had no choice except to threaten to ram the merger and force it off the road, as the passing lane was not clear for me to swerve into it, and I had no intention of trying to brake and hope that I was able to slow quickly enough for the merge-impaired Sloth to miss hitting my front end and then to not be hit by anyone behind me, drivers who were probably preparing to pass me also. What is it that causes such merge-impaired behaviour? It was a newer car, too, with what should have been enough power to easily accelerate to 130 and leave the slower traffic behind. Why did this driver insist on trying to merge into the small gap between my car and the car in front of me, which would've meant crashing into my side? Perhaps this driver was trying to kill me by forcing me into the passing lane unexpectedly. Yes, that must have been the reason, because any competent driver would have simply accelerated slightly more and merged into the huge space that was in front of the traffic which was going quite slowly, even for nighttime conditions. Of course, what did the Sloth do once it was forced to stop its illegal merge and then merge behind me? It accelerated to pass me! I cannot understand this behaviour! It is extremely frustrating, foolish, and dangerous. These Sloths must be eliminated!
From: Brent on 22 Mar 2010 10:45 On 2010-03-22, Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Alexander Rogge <a_rogge(a)yahoo.com> > said: > >>I believe that this was my first incident involving a merge-impaired gap >>crasher. I was going slowly in the right lane, following another car at >>a speed of 80. > > Heh! Only in r.a.d would a driver describe 80 kph as "slow." :) That's because for a limited access highway, it is slow. 50mph.
From: N8N on 22 Mar 2010 11:21 On Mar 22, 10:45 am, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-22, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Alexander Rogge <a_ro...(a)yahoo.com> > > said: > > >>I believe that this was my first incident involving a merge-impaired gap > >>crasher. I was going slowly in the right lane, following another car at > >>a speed of 80. > > > Heh! Only in r.a.d would a driver describe 80 kph as "slow." :) > > That's because for a limited access highway, it is slow. 50mph. Oddly enough, this AM I was at the very same spot where a lane ends that I posted a few weeks ago that I'd been forced off the road by an idiot in a service van with company logos and a phone number all over it... had almost the same thing happen to me this AM, this time by a truck with one of the competitors of my company's logo on it! No, my car is *not* decaled... I'm tooling along in the right lane, there's a car holding station in the left lane just ahead of me, preparing to "zipper" and this truck just behind me in a similar location. All of a sudden as we come to the actual merge point the truck accelerates and pulls next to me and then starts moving over on me - I tap my horn and this guy fortunately actually fell back unlike the other idiot. Why do people find it so hard to simply take their turn? And what was this guy hoping to accomplish other than pissing me off and getting maybe exactly one car length ahead of where he would have been by simply driving correctly? Yet again there was no sheriff in the median this AM, although most mornings he's there... too bad... nate
From: Brent on 22 Mar 2010 11:53 On 2010-03-22, N8N <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 22, 10:45�am, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 2010-03-22, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Alexander Rogge <a_ro...(a)yahoo.com> >> > said: >> >> >>I believe that this was my first incident involving a merge-impaired gap >> >>crasher. �I was going slowly in the right lane, following another car at >> >>a speed of 80. >> >> > Heh! Only in r.a.d would a driver describe 80 kph as "slow." :) >> >> That's because for a limited access highway, it is slow. 50mph. > > Oddly enough, this AM I was at the very same spot where a lane ends > that I posted a few weeks ago that I'd been forced off the road by an > idiot in a service van with company logos and a phone number all over > it... had almost the same thing happen to me this AM, this time by a > truck with one of the competitors of my company's logo on it! No, my > car is *not* decaled... > > I'm tooling along in the right lane, there's a car holding station in > the left lane just ahead of me, preparing to "zipper" and this truck > just behind me in a similar location. All of a sudden as we come to > the actual merge point the truck accelerates and pulls next to me and > then starts moving over on me - I tap my horn and this guy fortunately > actually fell back unlike the other idiot. Like this guy: http://www.blip.tv/file/3337071/ > Why do people find it so hard to simply take their turn? And what was > this guy hoping to accomplish other than pissing me off and getting > maybe exactly one car length ahead of where he would have been by > simply driving correctly? I am beginning to think it's all some animal level domination thing. You were driving correctly and that made you appear submissive, someone who would give way. > Yet again there was no sheriff in the median this AM, although most > mornings he's there... too bad... Not that a cop would do anything about it though.
From: Alexander Rogge on 23 Mar 2010 03:24
Scott in SoCal wrote: > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Alexander Rogge <a_rogge(a)yahoo.com> > said: > >> Another car was on the merge lane ahead. There was >> plenty of lane remaining on the acceleration lane to continue >> accelerating and merge in front of the car that was in front of me. The >> merger was already in front of that car, but was playing a >> speed-matching game instead of accelerating. >> >> Instead of continuing to merge, the merger braked hard, flicked on its >> turn signal, and started to merge quickly into my side. > >> What is it that causes such merge-impaired behaviour? > > Poor driver training, coupled with an entitlement attitude. MFFYs > honestly believe that a turn signal gives them the right-of-way. What is so odd about this MFFY is that it was already in front of the other car. The merge-impaired slowpokes usually flick on their turn signals and merge at any speed, forcing the driver on the roadway to brake or swerve. This Sloth deliberately braked and tried to merge between me and the driver in front of me. That's not MFFY; that's Me Second, F-Y! > The > fact that most people are scaredy-cats and will immediately slow down > and let the MFFY in merely reinforces this erroneous belief. What must the threat of ramming and death suggest to their system of erroneous beliefs? > What's really interesting is how these jerks suddenly learn how to use > their pedals when they realize you aren't going to JLEDI; they get all > pissed off and either floor it and merge in front or slam on the > brakes and merge behind. There was nowhere for me to JLEDI. I don't believe that I could have braked quickly enough to avoid the collision, not after considering the rate of the Sloth's illegal lane-change and its braking, so I turned into the Sloth instead. If I'm to be hit, I want the Sloth in a position where it will take more damage than me. If I have a choice between swerving into the passing lane and possibly being killed or killing the Sloth, I will kill the Sloth driver. I suspect that many other drivers who value their lives would make the same decision. Being hit by a car going twice your speed is not usually a survivable experience, especially if the impact occurs to only one side of the car and causes a spin. I will not risk such an impact from behind when I can eliminate the Sloth instead. I am not sure what is happening during the erroneous decision processes in the heads of these Sloths, but one of them may eventually learn that the value of its single life tends to zero when the risk against mine increases as a result of its foolish driving. |