How Much Road Capacity is Wasted Due to Poor Driving 4542

Whatever dude, you seem like at this point you just want a flamewar and don't want to really discuss or resolve anything. Just because you and I disagree doesn't make you the end-all-be-all driving authority and it doesn't make me an incompetent driver either.

until you. And I continue to buttert that:

1) if the thru traffic car is behind the merger at the time the solid line turns dashed the thru traffic car must BACK OFF or change lanes so that the merging car can complete the merge;

2) if the thru traffic car meet at about the same position after the dashed line has ended, the merger must back off a bit;

3) if the thru traffic car is ahead of the merger at the time the merger must back off and drop back into the next gap, see also #1 for the car behind the merger.

In other words, while thru traffic may have the right of way, the fact that a yellow diamond CAUTION sign with a graphic showing merging traffic ahead indicates that thru traffic is supposed to cooperate with merging traffic, not act combative about it.

Add to all of this...

4) thru traffic is still supposed to follow at a reasonable following distance so that gaps actually exist to merge into.

others I always do, which is why I use the entire merge lane because of MFFY last minute pbutters. I still reserve the right to criticize those reckless drivers who do such actions, though.

does. See above, it's still a cooperative driving operation on the part of the merger AND thru traffic.

to Do you have a source to support this claim? Remember, not talking about bumper-to-bumper traffic here, but regular flowing traffic.

Really though, I'm just expecting that you'll probably just deliver more insults and name-calling.