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What's the Road Test like 2999California, I buttume? Oregon and Washington must be similar. It's not too bad. You will, during the exam, drive only within a couple of miles of the DMV office itself. The...
or to That's on the buttumption that the car behind the merging car has allowed the next space to exist, and that's quite an buttumption. Otherwise, it's an infinite loop...
The merging car must back off and take the next space behind, but that thru traffic car won't allow the merging car in, so the merging car must take the next space behind, but that thru traffic car won't allow the merging car in... repeat until someone lets the merging car in, the merging car forces its way in, the merging car bails out of the shoulder, or a collision occurs.
At least with a join, where the newly formed lane may become an Exit Only lane instead of a lane reduction, a merging car can exit the freeway and then re-enter once again to try and merge onto the freeway once again. Of course, if the join becomes a lane reduction, then the infinite loop can occur once again.
There is always a time where even thru traffic must back off, or even better, just follow at far enough a following distance where the merging traffic can just safely zipper in--either in front or behind as the merging and thru traffic positions allow without sudden acceleration or sharp braking.
As such, I maintain that any merging car forced onto the shoulder--that wasn't trying to intentionally cut ahead of thru traffic--has been aggressively run off the road.
Others will obviously vary, but replace the white painted line with a guardrail or concrete barrier, and the merging car is definitely being run off the road and potentially into the barrier (until the merging car is forced to cut in or brake).
