Early merge feels more polite, late merge is safer and faster on the overall traffic (and much faster if you're the only one doing it + you're seen as impolite)

Early merge feels more polite, late merge is safer and faster on the overall traffic (and much faster if you're the only one doing it + you're seen as impolite) They want to make it more common. Pretty sure everywhere in EU everyone late merge. In west USA at least, I only see early merges.