Going "slow enough"

[ditchdj]

I tried to get on the interstate around here and was stuck behind some old fossil (who looked old enough to be John McCain's great-grandpa!) going 20mph on the onramp!

Needless to say when I went around him he immediately disappeared from my rearview mirror.

[Dips]

Geeze, I hate that.

Just Monday I had someone slam on his brakes and stop dead in the merging lane in front of me.

I couldn't get over safely so I'm really glad I had enough room to stop without hitting him.

[blas]

Oh lord.....I hate people who do that.

What I hate more are the "merge at 40" people who then ram it up into 70+ when I go to pass them. Really? You didn't care to merge at proper speed and nearly caused a backup, and now all of a sudden you want to actually go faster?

[IT Grunt]

Geeze, I hate that.

Just Monday I had someone slam on his brakes and stop dead in the merging lane in front of me.

I couldn't get over safely so I'm really glad I had enough room to stop without hitting him.

I had an old guy do the exact same thing to me. This particular on ramp was rather long, so I was accelerating down it to get up to highway speed. I reach highway speed and look at the bottom, and the car I saw that I thought was merging was at a dead stop. I slammed on the brakes and stopped a foot from his bumper. You could tell he was hesitant to get on, as he kept looking nervously at the oncoming traffic. Dude, if you're that freaked out about driving, it's time to hang it up.

[ditchdj]

Geeze, I hate that.

Just Monday I had someone slam on his brakes and stop dead in the merging lane in front of me.

I couldn't get over safely so I'm really glad I had enough room to stop without hitting him.

Heh, you just gave me a flashback of driving through Atlanta. Two or three times I was on six-lane I-75 and came across a car broke down in one of the MIDDLE lanes! WTF!

If I wasn't paying attention I would have smoked them and may even have taken the drivers with them!

[Kogarashi]

I had an old guy do the exact same thing to me. This particular on ramp was rather long, so I was accelerating down it to get up to highway speed. I reach highway speed and look at the bottom, and the car I saw that I thought was merging was at a dead stop. I slammed on the brakes and stopped a foot from his bumper. You could tell he was hesitant to get on, as he kept looking nervously at the oncoming traffic. Dude, if you're that freaked out about driving, it's time to hang it up.

I did that all of once myself, actually. In my defense, it was Driver's Ed and it was my first-ever time attempting to merge onto the highway. An 18-wheeler was approaching in the lane I wanted to merge into, with a few cars behind it, so I ended up stopping on the ramp. Luckily it was a little-used highway access in rural NY, so I didn't end up holding anyone up, but I did get a good lecture from my teacher and haven't done it since.

Outside of the "learning driver" category, though, I don't think there's any excuse.

[Sapphire Silk]

I had an old guy do the exact same thing to me. This particular on ramp was rather long, so I was accelerating down it to get up to highway speed. I reach highway speed and look at the bottom, and the car I saw that I thought was merging was at a dead stop. I slammed on the brakes and stopped a foot from his bumper. You could tell he was hesitant to get on, as he kept looking nervously at the oncoming traffic. Dude, if you're that freaked out about driving, it's time to hang it up.

I see this all the time. These people don't understand that to merge, you have to speed up.

[Shalom]

I see this all the time. These people don't understand that to merge, you have to speed up.

Well unless you're here. Yes, that's a stop sign at the end of an on-ramp. Yes, that's Brooklyn for you; that's not the only one either.

(Gawd is that an ugly URL...)

[Andara Bledin]

The 110 freeway out on this side of the country used to have stop sign onramps to go with the short, stop sign offramps, but they did away with them at some point.

^-.-^

[Kogarashi]

Rte. 15 here has some ramps with stop signs on them, but then again its posted max speed is 55, rather than the 65 of the interstates. Still weirded me out the first time we encountered that. It almost seems...counterintuitive.