Re: On Topic? Cars, anyway: 55 MPH speed limit...

"Vic Smith" <thismailautodeleted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:32:24 -0700, "Jeff Strickland"
> <crwlr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:pan.2008.07.26.04.20.51.561663@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> You have to drive to the car's capabilities, and even more im****tant,
to
>>> your *OWN* without impeding anyone else.
>>>
>>> The safest bet is the best bet, but not one everyone (especially here
in
>>> Mass) chooses...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>Of course you have to drive your car's capabilities. But there should 
>>never
>>ever be a car on the freeway that can't get up to speed on the onramp, 
>>then
>>slow if needed to actually affect proper entry.
>>
>>If the car can't get to speed on the onramp then slow as needed, it
should
>>remain at home. If the drive is not up to that standard, he or she ought

>>to
>>not be driving.
>>
> Though I agree in essence with what you're saying, what speed are you
> talking about?
> Some say that merge lane should be filled by cars doing 80mph who have
> moved there so those in the middle lane can do 81mph.
> That's the problem with guys who are telling everybody else how to
> drive, and making rules for them.
> My "rule" is I take care of myself, and others to the extent I'm not
> endangered, and don't think any "rules" are going to protect me.
> Everybody's got different rules.
> The trick is adjusting to those rules, otherwise you'll come to grief.
>
> --Vic


If the merge lane is filled with speeders, then you may have trouble
getting 
up to speed. But, if you are trying to merge at 45 or 50, and the merge
lane 
is filled with speeders, then somebody is going to die. Everybody
concerned 
is better off if your car is doing at least the speed limit of the freeway

that you are entering.

If you're in the merge lane doing 80, and somebody wants to merge, then it

is your obligation to let them in if they are in front of you and running 
out of room. But, this demands that the guy running out of room is not
going 
so slow as to cause you to slow. And if he is going that slow, they you're

an idiot for running up on him so closely as to create a hazard.

I always watch the onramp to see if anybody will get to the end at the
same 
time I get there, and either adjust my lane selection or my speed.

I really see no need in this discussion. Get your ass going on the onramp,

and watch the onramp when you are speeding in the slow lane. End of 
discussion.