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As a Brit, I always merge early due to the sense of fairness. However, this is strongly enforced by the nature of road signs, which show, say 500m ahead, a diag
by Angostura 8y ago
As a Brit, I always merge early due to the sense of fairness. However, this is strongly enforced by the nature of road signs, which show, say 500m ahead, a diagram with an arrow on the right merging to the left.
All it would take would be a consistent change of sign showing merging in turn at lane-merge to change this behaviour
- lorenzhs 8y agoThis is the sign for a zipper merge in Germany: https://www.swr.de/-/id=22217882/property=gallery/pubVersion=1/d6vtby/r.jpg https://www.swr.de/-/id=22217882/property=gallery/pubVersion... (the text says "zipper merge, no sooner than in 400m"). But we also have the arrow sign you describe, albeit with the same text as the other one: http://www.steine-und-erden.net/se501/reissver.gif http://www.steine-und-erden.net/se501/reissver.gif. It would be interesting to conduct a study on whether there is a change in behaviour depending on which sign is used.
- Angostura 8y agoThat would be perfect. The odd thing is that you do see very occasional zip-merge signs in the UK, which tend to reinforce the idea that zip-merge should any be used in exceptional circumstance.
- slantyyz 8y agoAs someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I merge early as a defensive/safety measure. People here will follow each other incredibly closely, even at high speeds, and quite often they won't slow down to let you in if you're trying to merge.