Learning How To Merge Correctly

It seems that whoever designed the roads in New York did not do enough planning when

it came to the highways and the merges leading to the highways themselves. The result? People who try to merge into traffic on the local highways find that they have incredible difficulty doing so because of the way that the ramps are built.

Part of the problem with merging is due to what the exit and/or entrance ramp looks like. Obviously, the longer the entrance ramp to the highway is, the easier it will be for someone to merge into the traffic. The reason for this is due to the fact that when you have a longer entry way ramp, you are allowing your vehicle more room for which to accelerate, thereby giving you more leverage to speed up to the same speeds that the other vehicles are traveling at on the highway. What's worse is that if you do not know how to merge correctly, then you can actually cause other people to get involved in vehicular accidents...not something that you really want to happen.

In a few incidents that I was involved in, I was traveling in the far right lane (the one closes to the on/off ramps for the highway) when a vehicle emerged from my right side and indicated that they wanted to merge. The speed limit was 65 miles per hour, and I was actually driving at about five miles per hour under the posted speed limit because I was in the far right lane and was preparing to exit the highway soon. No sooner had this person put their blinker on, they immediately jumped into the lane in front of me. Normally, this wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that I had to slam on my brakes because they were driving somewhere around 35 miles per hour. I tried to shake off the anger and frustration as I accelerated around them and later exited the highway.

If it is one thing that you DON'T want to do, it is enter onto a highway and try to merge in with highway traffic at over 20 miles per hour below the speed limit. I think that this must have been a problem in certain areas of the United States because you will occasionally see speed limit signs that tell drivers what the posted speed limit is as well as what the minimum speed limit should be. Yes, driving too slow is just as dangerous as driving too fast or even driving while tired. Think about it. If you are traveling at 65 miles per hour and someone suddenly appears in front of you driving 35 miles per hour, what are you going to do? You would have no choice but to slam on your brakes, and/or change lanes. Pay attention while you drive, and if you are merging, do so with caution!

by: David Williams 2

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