Folks, I can’t express in enough words the amount of anger and frustration I feel towards other drivers. I realize I am not the world’s greatest driver but I’m far from being the world’s worst.
Lately, on my commute to work, I have had difficulty merging onto the interstate as it seems my fellow early morning drivers don’t understand what it means to use the entrance ramp.
So I’ll take a few minutes out of my night to explain it to you. It won’t take long since you should have learned this before you received your license.
But hey! No judgement here..
Let’s begin!
There is this lane that allows you to enter the interstate known as the Entrance Ramp. While you’re on this said ramp, the point of using this ramp is to Accelerate.
If you don’t know what that word means, here is google’s definition:
Increase in the rate or speed of something.
That means while you are entering the interstate, your speed should be increasing. And by increasing, I mean you should be at the speed everyone else is moving at by the time you merge into the right lane.
If you aren’t quite sure what the word Increase means, here’s a definition:
To become or make greater in size, amount, intensity, or degree.
In simpler terms, you should be gaining speed as you move down the ramp. Not maintaining the same speed and most certainly not losing speed.
By no means should you still be at 45-50mph while merging onto the interstate unless traffic is backed up and you have no choice.
If traffic is moving at its regular speed, you best be matching that speed by the time you reach the end of the entrance ramp.
This isn’t just for the fact that it makes it harder to merge onto the interstate when you’re doing 10-15mph less than you should. Yoohoo! It’s a safety precaution.
Safety Precaution!
I’m just throwing it out there, if you don’t want someone slamming into the back of your car because they are going the correct speed while you decide to take a long Sunday night drive when in fact it’s Wednesday morning in rush hour traffic, I highly suggest you put your foot on the gas pedal and press down! Press down as hard as you can. Put the pedal to the metal!
This way you’ll be at a decent speed that will allow you to safely merge onto the interstate without causing an accident or being an inconvenience to your fellow drivers.
And like I’ve said numerous times before, if you can’t use your brain while driving on a crowded interstate, do us all a favor and just don’t drive!
That is all!
Love,
Yours Truly
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