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darkpuppet,Jun 5 2006, 02:21 PM Wrote:^--- I'm one of those people that merges early if he can, and then gets pissed off when people race to the end of the merge lane and I have to sit and let them in.
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If you've voluntarily left one lane for another, and others choose to continue using the lane you left, why would you get pissed? There's nothing in law or logic that says a lane becomes unusable because somebody else decides to exit that lane early. If the road planners didn't expect that lane to be used to the point of the merge, they would have closed it in a different place.

What if someone decides a kilometer in advance that they want to change lanes in advance of a merge? From a philosophical POV does that mean they should expect everyone else to stay behind them and do the same? And what if two drivers at the same time choose two different points to merge - which one is the one we all have to follow in your scenario.

What you've got there is in effect a roving merge - no telling from one moment to the next where it actually is ... that's why it makes no sense IMO. What does make sense is that the point of merge be where the road planners place it.

BTW - don't try to use the reverse to get out of a speeding ticket. Just because you can see the 100 km sign, doesn't mean that where you're at is 100. The point it becomes 100 is at the sign.