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   On 2013-11-07, Daniel W. Rouse Jr.  wrote:   
   > "Brent"  wrote in message   
   > news:l5e3d4$mf7$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 2013-11-06, Daniel W. Rouse Jr.  wrote:   
   >>> I state that slower traffic should keep one lane to the left of the right   
   >>> lane on any road with three or more lanes in one direction.   
   >>>   
   >>> The reasons are because the rightmost lane often becomes exit only or   
   >>> there   
   >>> is a lane reduction closing the right lane anyway. Then slower traffic   
   >>> has   
   >>> to merge into faster traffic anyway.   
   >>>   
   >>> Discuss.   
   >>   
   >> Typical backasswards american driving. People can't merge so create   
   >> social rules suspending keep right except to pass thus making more   
   >> problems. Teach people how to merge properly and keep right except to   
   >> pass as is done in civilized driving countries.   
   >>   
   > Merging properly: BGE mirror guidelines suggest a safe merge is one   
   > headlight in the rearview mirror and one headlight in the side mirror.   
   > Through traffic should be leaving that much of a gap so that a merge can   
   > occur safely. Of course, they don't.   
      
   Finding a gap is usually not an issue. The problem is people don't   
   accelerate early enough. Thus they are going slower than traffic they   
   are to merge into. That is the root cause of the problem. At too slow of   
   a speed it requires a huge gap not to force traffic on the road to   
   brake. One should be going slightly faster than the traffic being merged   
   into. Brakes are more powerful than the engine for most cars and thus   
   braking can be used for fine adjustment to time a gap properly while   
   acceleration won't be there to do it for most people.   
      
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