Why change lanes when no one is ahead of you?
Posted in Driving on April 7th, 2007Scenario:
You are cruising down the freeway/highway/expressway/etc. in the second lane from the right. Ahead is a car merging onto the roadway, and you are slowly approaching and will over-take the car. There is no car within 10 to 20 lengths of the merging car that is in the same lane, but the driver moves over into your lane, anyways. I have to slow down because my speed is slightly higher than that dang car. I just have to throw my hands up and ask, “Why do you have to move into my lane when there isn’t a situation to force you to move from your lane!”
In my area, some of the newer (15 years or younger) are lacking some of the signs that state the obvious…”Slower traffic stay right”. Remember, I was about to overtake the merging car!
