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

"Hachiroku" <Trueno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:pan.2008.07.28.21.13.37.356551@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:57:34 -0700, Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
>>> Jeff!!! In Vermont, the ramps have YIELD signs! There's an implied
yield
>>> at the end of an on ramp. Are you saying traffic on the highway is
>>> supposed to stop?!?!?!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Of cousre not. That's absurd.
>>
>> I'm saying that you should pace yourself so that persons attempting to 
>> enter
>> can do so. If you have to slow from 55 to 53, big deal. If you have to 
>> move
>> over a lane, big deal.
>
>
> True. But my original post on this matter said that there's cars to your
> left on a two-lane Interstate, and a guy behind you, and the person
coming
> up the ramp has no intention of stopping...
>
> Or even slowing.
>

Then you gotta slow, or be dead right, and there's no benefit in that.

When the guy behind you is paying your bills, he can dictate the pedals
you 
elect to use, until then, he's behind you and his main goal in life is to 
not hit you.

MY original post on the matter is that the guy on the ramp has to speed up

to the flow of traffic or faster, then slow a bit if needed to fit into
the 
line, as opposed to dragging his merry ass down the ramp at 40 and trying
to 
get up to speed at merge time.