This problem is exacerbated by this peculiar trend in car design, where they place the B pillar exactly where I need to look.
What is so confusing about highway on ramps?
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This problem is exacerbated by this peculiar trend in car design, where they place the B pillar exactly where I need to look.
There is some obligation on the car merging to actual put some thought into it, and safely attempt to merge. It's the car, or truck in the merge lane that is merging.
I like them. Traffic (usually) moves quicker. They are especially good during power failures, since no traffic signals are needed.
They're more fun in my Corvette than the Tahoe though.
We get lots of practice as we have lots of on/off ramps.
From Wiki: "The longest complete beltway in the United States is Interstate 275, an 83.71-mile (134.72 km) loop in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky that forms a complete beltway around the Cincinnati, Ohio area. It encloses an area of over 250,000 acres."
I bet johngalt has been on it a time,or two.
From Wiki: "The longest complete beltway in the United States is Interstate 275, an 83.71-mile (134.72 km) loop in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky that forms a complete beltway around the Cincinnati, Ohio area. It encloses an area of over 250,000 acres."
I bet johngalt has been on it a time,or two.
Old time gear head here. Most all vechicles I own/ever owned come with the big engine and I'm not loath to use it.
I drive a lot of limited access roads including a bunch of years driving large commercial trucks so I have seen just about everything possible on this subject.
I tend to accelerate rather briskly to the main road on the approach lane and if I have to get out in heavy traffic I step on it and am going faster than the traffic I need to merge into. That makes it a lot easier.
Yes, definitely need an engine that will make you go when you "push the pedal on the right!" I had an '08 SS Impala that went from 0 to fast as heck in 5 seconds, and it worked every time. It was geared right for this. Nothing like a 'vette, Hellcat, or whatever the Mustang was called, but it was quick for a full-sized sedan! These little 4 cylinder turbos on Chevy Cruzes will get up too. Every brand has one, people...use it!
Reminds me of.....
Reminds me of Fred Flintstone 'saving a few minutes' by taking the freeway...
'beep' ....'beep'.... 'hoooonk'...'beep beep'
A lot of highway designs suck because when they designed them, they thought traffic would look like this:
When in reality it looks like this:
Reminds me of Fred Flintstone 'saving a few minutes' by taking the freeway...
'beep' ....'beep'.... 'hoooonk'...'beep beep'
Murphy's Law
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It is the very thing the OP points out that my wife who rides shotgun carriers a "Bazooka" hanging out the window.
I've got tone.......
FOX 2!!!!!!!!
^^^ THIS ^^^
...is why mounting a rocket launcher to your vehicle should be legal!
FOX 2!!!!!!!!
Try living in a city that has all the rivers and tunnels to go through or over or both, like PGH. It's ridiculous. Of course, geographically, the best way to travel is by helicopter! Fortunately, PGH is small compared to the BIG cities with 6 or 7 jam-packed lanes!
Been all the way around it (not all at once!). I consider it to be one of the better designed beltways, all things considered. At least when it was built, they were smart enough to go wide.
The dumbest thing they did was when rebuilding the north side, between I-75 and I-71 a few years back. Before they started, it was 3 lanes wide in each direction. They tore it up for several years, gridlocked traffic, etc.
When it was finally finished....wait for it....it was 3 lanes wide in each directions. ***??!!!
I think the point is....
...that you can flash semaphore, shoot some flares and yell through a bullhorn but people think that giving way to anybody for any reason is a sign of weakness.
...that you can flash semaphore, shoot some flares and yell through a bullhorn but people think that giving way to anybody for any reason is a sign of weakness.
We have those....
They have a minimal radius curve to decelerate, then change to an even shorter radius so you have to 'jink' suddenly to stay in the road.
Everything around here is sub minimal. One of our exits had about 40 yards of lane doubling as an acceleration/deceleration lane. Boy, you had to watch your butt on that one.
They have a minimal radius curve to decelerate, then change to an even shorter radius so you have to 'jink' suddenly to stay in the road.
Everything around here is sub minimal. One of our exits had about 40 yards of lane doubling as an acceleration/deceleration lane. Boy, you had to watch your butt on that one.
It doesn't matter how fast.....
It really doesn't matter how fast you can accelerate if the traffic in all of the lanes is bumper to bumper.
It really doesn't matter how fast you can accelerate if the traffic in all of the lanes is bumper to bumper.
Those LS and LT engines come in handy some times.
So does the Batmobile.
My 1999 Tahoe is big enough, but for speed my 2011 328i BMW can get me fast into traffic....
LVSteve
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That's because there are several states where the people joining the freeway expect the traffic to move over a lane to let them in. The law in those states "encourages" this behavior. From memory, Iowa is one of them. I know this from the complaints made by my late wife's visiting relatives from IA. They didn't get that all on ramps are yields.
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My weekend cruiser is a Hemi Challenger. I have no problem merging into 75-80 mph interstate traffic. Just gun it and go for a predetermined spot in traffic. 0 to 60 in 5 seconds, 165 mph top end and this is considered "slow" among the muscle car crowd.
Just doing my best to increase my carbon footprint and give the Smart Car crowd something else to hate.
Just doing my best to increase my carbon footprint and give the Smart Car crowd something else to hate.
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