Where did you come from?!

[Lyse]

I was on my way home from school today and almost took out a car in the lane I was changing to.

The on ramp puts me on the freeway at the start of a bridge with four lanes of traffic. I was in the far right and needed to get over to the second from the left. I put on my signal and waited for a truck to pass to move over the first lane, then was going to move into the other - as soon as I started to merge there was honking and I quickly got back in the lane I was already in!

Now, I looked and saw no one before I started to merge - there is a small chance that I might have missed the car, but my blind spot isn't that big, and not an issue when I also look over the left shoulder. So, chances are they were either doing twice the speed limit for the bridge, or whipped over from the far left lane as I started to merge.

Scared the begeezus out of me, that was for sure!!!

[Andara Bledin]

I'm of the opinion that some people just have their own personal cloaking fields.

I'm pretty obsessive about looking before changing lanes, and I've had a time or two where I've started to move, and double-checked as I do so to see that there's suddenly a car in the space I want to move into.

The worst case was when the other vehicle was a highway patrol officer on a motorcycle. He didn't ticket me, but told me to slow down and be careful.

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