Merging vs Yielding?

Question

Which is more bothersome - Drivers who fail to yield or those who have difficultly merging? Which one do you think causes more traffic accidents?

Answer 1

Those that fail to yield cause the most accidents.

Both are very dangerous though.

Answer 2

Having driven everything short of a tractor-trailer rig, my biggest annoyance is with those who don't know how to merge.

I'm talking the people that slow down on a quarter mile long entrance ramp, stop in a dead panic in a clover leaf, or at the end of an entrance ramp.  If I can be at or above freeway speed by the time I come out of the ramp, I can adjust more easily to the flow of traffic.

In large vehicles, most driver's realize that you're comitted as soon as they see you heading up the ramp and make room for you to get in.  Yes, the person merging in is supposed to yield, but that isn't always an option for the driver of the larger vehicle.

If you simply want to know my pet peeve, that would be drivers on the service road that can't comprehend the signs warning them to yield to the ramp.  It's not rocket science; a 50,000# vehicle is dropping off the expressway at 60 MPH, and you're in a Kia, pissed off in traffic, so you cut it off.  If you're lucky, the driver of the truck can stop before he plows you into the intersection.

If you stop on an entrance ramp, or in a cloverleaf, expect someone to plow into your rear end.  It is not their fault that the driver in front of them is an idiot.  Unfortunately, most driver's exams don't feature merging and exiting.  (One woman chased me for several miles, giving me the finger, flashing her high beams and honking after I honked at her when she froze up in a cloverleaf.)

Sometimes and some situations make yielding not an option, and some people take yielding too seriously, and some people just don't grasp the concept of merging or yielding. Those very people are raising our insurance rates as we speak.

DGI

Answer 3

Not yielding is probably a bigger cause for accidents since you were supposed to stop so the traffic on the other road can continue since they don't have a yield or stop sign.  And merging is also a problem but I believe theres less accidents then yielding.

Answer 4

I think people that fail to yield would be, but I see more people every d**n day that can't merge properly.

It so funny when you see somebody and you try to slow down and let them in.......but they just sit there with the turn signal flashing and they end up running out of road and driving on the shoulder. I don't get what the difficulty is.

Answer 5

I think both are equally as dangerous, but probably failing to yield causes more accidents in my opinion.