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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
If there's congestion then yes, the through traffic needs to create a gap. You're missing the part where virtually the entire road is a "gap" except for the one car, yet they manage to accelerate up to speed and exactly parallel that one car.
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Nah. When you're already on the road you have the advantage of knowing how fast you are going and having a nice full view of the situation in front of you. It's really not hard to anticipate roughly where the merger will end up.
When you're merging, it's a lot harder to tell if the guy in your mirror is going 20 over or 5 under. Forcing the merger to find the gap is how you get people crawling/stopping to find a cruiseship sized gap.
Even if the merger is going unpredictably fast or slow it shouldn't be an issue (unless you are too). Merging really isn't very hard, but letting someone merge efficiently is beyond easy - it's sad but not surprising how many people don't understand how this should work.