If the culture is early merge and you choose to late merge you will be skipping the line and people will resent you for it. If I see an opertunity to late merg

If the culture is early merge and you choose to late merge you will be skipping the line and people will resent you for it. If I see an opertunity to late merge I will often choose to stay in the late merge lane, but match speed with the traffic in the early merge lane, then zipper when I have to. People notice that I haven't cut anyone off or skipped the line, and people usually fill in behind me and I'm able to transform an early merge queue into a late merge queue. You shouldn't late merge if it blocks a thruway. If a single lane highway has a backed up exit ramp then exiters should join the queue as soon as possible instead of late merging and blocking the highway.