I particularly hate the folks who absolutely know the lane is ending but decide to hop in it anyway to speed ahead of the traffic that had the sense to merge out of the lane beforehand. The sensible folks did so to, you know, speed up traffic. These assholes continue to jam up the traffic their selfishness.

The whole not matching highway speed on the ramp issue is driven primarily, IMO, by pricks that don't make room for folks when they do match speed. If traffic is going 75mph, and you take your ramp to get up to 75mph, your going to be up ****'s creek if you can't get over. You're going 75mph and out of road.

I tend to just push my way in.

The whole not matching highway speed on the ramp issue is driven primarily, IMO, by pricks that don't make room for folks when they do match speed.

Not their job to "make room." Secondary traffic merging into primary traffic has the obligation to yield. Making room might be the courteous thing to do, I agree, but condemning people for not making room isn't very correct, from a technical perspective.

The whole not matching highway speed on the ramp issue is driven primarily, IMO, by pricks that don't make room for folks when they do match speed. If traffic is going 75mph, and you take your ramp to get up to 75mph, your going to be up ****'s creek if you can't get over. You're going 75mph and out of road.

I tend to just push my way in.

Not their job to "make room." Secondary traffic merging into primary traffic has the obligation to yield. Making room might be the courteous thing to do, I agree, but condemning people for not making room isn't very correct, from a technical perspective.

But the thing is, it is significantly easier to merge when matching highway speed, regardless if people make room. The closer you are to highway speed, the less room you need to merge.

Applying the brakes while trying to steer is a very common loss of control in serious accidents; apply brakes first, THEN release to steer.

But, but.... Gran Turismo and Forza let me lay on the brakes while turning at 120mph, why doesn't real life?

Also, Numbuk, the most efficient way for traffic to merge when a land is ending is for everyone merge when the road itself actually merges. Merging early makes things slower for everyone and can create dangerous situations where you have a long line of stopped traffic next to another land that's mostly empty with cars zipping by. You're not queuing up in a line, you're on a road. Using all available lanes and merging like a zipper at the point where the road physically merges is the safest and fastest.

Um, both Gran Turismo and Forza don't let you take turns at 120 mph, especially not while braking. You'll run into the wall. I think they're both pretty realistic in that regard.

Also, Numbuk, the most efficient way for traffic to merge when a land is ending is for everyone merge when the road itself actually merges. Merging early makes things slower for everyone and can create dangerous situations where you have a long line of stopped traffic next to another land that's mostly empty with cars zipping by. You're not queuing up in a line, you're on a road. Using all available lanes and merging like a zipper at the point where the road physically merges is the safest and fastest.

That may be true if you stipulate a theoretical condition where drivers communicate and coordinate perfectly to merge in a hive mind like fashion but real drivers don't do that. Merging just in time would likely cause huge backups because someone would be out of sync with the established pattern traffic is merging and would rapidly slow down to avoid an accident, throwing the merge pattern into disarray.

I blame bad education. I was actually taught in driver's ed to SLOW DOWN on the onramp. "You can't drive that fast, you're not ON the highway yet! You can't go fast until you're actually on the highway!"