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You'll only cause an accident if the faster traffic is driving too fast for the conditions and/or not maintaining sufficient distance from other vehicles, espec
by omgwtfbyobbq 4y ago
You'll only cause an accident if the faster traffic is driving too fast for the conditions and/or not maintaining sufficient distance from other vehicles, especially your vehicle.
You could ram the other vehicle. In that case no amount of safe/defensive driving would stop that.
But a safe/defensive driver will go as slow as you do if you merge in front of them.
- mlyle 4y agoYou're saying that you never exceed the speed of traffic in the lane next to you, by even a little bit? If you exceed the traffic of the lane next to you, you will have low "following distance" to it, and a deceleration disadvantage. Plus, humans have reaction times.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoI'm saying that if I exceed the speed of another vehicle and that vehicle merges into my lane or I merge into theirs, and I hit their vehicle from behind, I'm at least partially at fault. If their vehicle is fully in the lane, I'm almost certainly going to be completely at fault.
- mlyle 4y agoI'm saying if you ever exceed the speed of a lane next to you, a vehicle in that lane can force you to crash.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoYup. Relative speed doesn't matter. A vehicle in the lane next to you can force you to crash.