What discussion? Zipper merge is a well defined technique.
More like half the people know how to zipper merge and the other half try to justify merging a mile early and getting angry when people pass them and zipper merge properly.
Well done, all of you!
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Leviathan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Sorry bud, you’re the party that doesn’t understand zipper merging.
dan69@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Let pedestrians and cyclists go first. Scramble walk is okay and sjould be encouraged
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I like how I stumbled into your
sjouldright after you made me imagine the scramble-walk. Somehow my brain crossed circuits and when I readsjould, my imagined scramble-walker slipped on wet pavement and half fell.Brains are weird.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I support this wholeheartedly. Cars should be banned.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
These ‘zipper merge’ vs ‘early merge’ arguments are really the worst. At the same time, the lack of consensus fully explains why merge zones like that are such a mess.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 17 hours ago
If there’s heavy traffic in your city and private cars are still preferable to public transport, your infrastructure is shit and you should go pester your politicians about it
platypode@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
What do I do if the public transit is pretty good and the city is walkable, but all the jobs are in office parks 40 minutes out of town?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Pester your politicians that they forgot a part of the walkable city. Either a walkable workplace or work from home.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
It’s strange, my coworker said the roads were really crazy last night. First light i tunred at, left turn by the way, with green arow, dude ran the red and almost hit me. Is it something in the water?
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I think it’s a barometer for the overall mental health climate. We’re any combination of overworked, broke, tired, we got news organizations trying to keep us mad at each other all the time…and then we get on the road where it’s easy to pretend those other metal boxes aren’t filled with human beings.
I’m not above it. I’ve participated in my fair share of road rage parties. And I don’t have any solutions, just observations and memes. That’s all I got.
marcos@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s deeper than that.
People have been doing this since cars became fast. There’s something in our brains that automatically turns driving into a battle.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 17 hours ago
I’ve got a solution. It’s called a train.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Better than nothing
ultranaut@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
An important game maybe? Being Brazilian, I’ve always refrained from driving before big games started, like World Cup or championship finals. People were crazy trying to get home.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Yeah, they put a drug in the water known as DHMO. It drasticly affects your brain and motor functionality.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
😳 are you telling me they put water, in the water?
mlg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yo dawg I heard you like DHMO…
Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
There’s cocaine in the water so maybe
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
The clear solution is to park inside a light rail station.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I assume it shouldn’t be one at street level. Do you recommend an elevated station or an underground one?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Get creative with it. Imagine you’re earning style points like in GTA.
potpotato@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This was an elevated station
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
these days, it involves yelling
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
God damnit , now I gotta go watch police academy 1-765 now
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 13 hours ago
GO AS FAST AS POSSIBLE DON’T STOP DON’T YIELD ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Some people think that if there’s a hwy lane closure in 30 miles, you’re the asshole of you don’t immediately merge over
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I don’t mind personally, but don’t assume that your blinker means I HAVE to let you in
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Definitely. I personally merge earlier, knowing it’s less efficient and will put me back relative to zipper merging - just to avoid the stress of trying to get in between potentially uncooperative mergees. But I also don’t get too mad at the mergers - maybe they’re in a legit hurry
Saapas@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
If there’s a lot of traffic it makes sense to try and find room to merge early though
plyth@feddit.org 2 hours ago
If there’s a lot of traffic it makes sense to try and find room to merge early though
Not at all. You destroy a smooth process where both lanes drive at the same speed. It turns into a stop and go in one lane while the other keeps getting filled with new cars from the back that join at the last moment.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
“Early” being relative to the specific vehicles involved. Lorries/tractor-trailers needs a LOT more time to find an opening before a merge than a “four-wheeler” does.
Besides it’s long been proven that “zipper merging” - which is basically waiting up to almost the last second to merge - is the more efficient method.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 16 hours ago
It always makes sense to merge at the last safe moment, but only if everyone else is doing that which requires everyone to trust each other and I can trust myself but I can’t trust any of you fuckers, etc.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
And some people think inflating numbers proves their point.
Plus, If you have 30 miles of signs telling you to get over and you wait until you are forced by the actual lane closure, yes you are the asshole.
I will not be taking questions.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Some people eat up rage bait like a fine meal
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Something something milk before cereal something…
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
That implies taking the time to appreciate its finer qualities. I’d say it’s more like feeding time at the trough.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
_Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?_
duckwingthegoose@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I didnt open that post cause I knew immediately that it would devolve into the age old fight of when to merge. This confirms I made the right choice, to always merge instantaneously when a sign that lane is ending is first seen in the distance.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I thought everyone would just get along and be happy
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
Don’t mind me, appropriating this meme.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
why?
snooggums@piefed.world 18 hours ago
When it comes to traffic people have wildly different ideas about things.
Some people think slow means 5 mph slower on the highway when others are talking about 15+ slower in center lanes generally for faster traffic. Local expectations about behaving in traffic means someone waiting closer to a merge is just doing the right thing for a zipper merge and other people are used to assholes raving to the merge and then forcing themselves in.
People often also thing of the other behaviors of drivers that do certain things that makes one thing more dangerous. In my experience drivers who are significantly slower in traffic by 10-15 mph on the highway frequently do rapid lane changes without signaling, brake suddenly for no reason, and other signs that they really should not be driving a vehicle. People who don’t drive on highways is not going to be thinking of that kind of speed disparity or the dangers if they drive 45 or under where going 15 mph less is annoying but not really dangerous.
Communication about things that have wildly different experiences means people talking past each other leads to arguments.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Hee hee hee ho ho ho ha ha ha
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
I’m kind of a bad driver but I try cuz u gotta yk
Sometimes it’s like a red and there’s someone trying to pull out of some lot and realistically I could’ve given space for them to leave but I wasn’t paying attention so I didn’t 😔😔😔 I always feel so ashamed when I do that
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Image
increasing FB type paranoia
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
This post was sending me, none of yal know how to drive like a standard human.