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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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.
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Funny how you can have this so backwards. When you're merging, you have the advantage of traffic beside you driving a consistent speed that you just need to match. On the other hand, when a struggle-merger is coming up beside you, you have no idea if they'll accelerate hard or chicken out and slow down. There's no way to make a gap for them (save for changing lanes) that you can be confident they'll actually use...
If I'm speeding slightly as I approach a merger who's already up to speed, I certainly won't move into their gap. If there's an open left lane i can use without inconveniencing anyone else, I'll use it. If there's heavy congestion, I'll allow a zipper. But that's the extent of my accommodating idiots.