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I like the title of this because I think it captures the way a lot of people feel when someone passes them in a lane that is ending, or pops in front of them as
by endswapper 10y ago
I like the title of this because I think it captures the way a lot of people feel when someone passes them in a lane that is ending, or pops in front of them as the lane is ending, while making the point that it's the proper behavior in the context of efficiency.
I live in Los Angeles and the two behaviors I notice most frequently working against the greater good are the inability to merge properly and keep right, pass left.
All too often I see people reach a merge and arbitrarily stop, put their blinker on and wait for an opening. Stopping makes it much harder to exploit an opening and merge safely. Or, someone going well under the speed limit in the far left lane creating a barrier to faster moving traffic.
I have all sorts of hypotheses about people's territorial and juvenile behaviors while driving. Ultimately, I think it comes down to ignorance resulting from less than adequate driver's education.
Driving in parts of Europe gives you an appreciation for better driver's education. This recent post is perhaps tangential(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674533), but it's in the spirit of my point about adequate driver's education. Similarly driving in some Central American countries is better in my experience.