Sorry about the profanity but why the h**l cant people match their speed when joining a motorway from slip rds

Question

Another point how many driving instructors do you see doing things wrong when they have no pupil onboard.

Answer 1

A good point.  Nothing to add except a story about one of my neighbours.

She was complaining one day about inconsiderate drivers on a nearby dual carriageway.  She said she had been trying to join the busy main road from a slip road.  She stopped at the 'give way' markings where it joined the dual carriageway (HER words, honestly) but no one would let her out so she did a three-point-turn and drove back up the slip road and came home.

How frightening is that????  She had passed her driving test after many attempts a couple of months earlier.

Answer 2

Because drivers in this stupid country get no training in how to drive. They are taught simply to pass the driving test. Have you noticed how many Instructors when driving have no clue whatsoever what they are doing. I have at on at least 5 occasions asked these drivers why the are driving without an instructor

Answer 3

Going east out of Hollingbury in Brighton onto the A27, that the best place in the south i reckon.

Answer 4

Because people have forgotton that filter lanes are for filtering into the traffic that is on the raod already.

To many drivers either treat it as getting on the road as fast as possible therefore casuing people already on the motorway to have to slow down or swerve to miss an accident

or

They treat the filter as a lets go as slow as possible then expect people on the motorway to move out there way.

Answer 5

They are afraid of going that fast or are afraid of merging.

Answer 6

I hate that too! Grrrr

Answer 7

Because they missed that lesson in drivers ed. Honestly I don't know but it would be nice if they would

Answer 8

boy racers hate them and they think the own the roads?

Answer 9

Most of them are either brain-dead or what we call "Sunday drivers" and don't care.

Answer 10

Maybe because the morons coming up the motorway don`t move over into the outside lane to let the traffic filter in thus the driver has to start from scratch speedwise - either that or force their way onto the inside lane causing oncoming drivers to brake/swerve!!

Answer 11

Maybe it's because most of the 'sheep' have got themselves into the habit of moving over into the fast lane to let merging traffic join at whatever speed they like.

See that big wide dashed line along the edge of the slip road - that means that traffic on the main carriageway has right of way. Merging traffic is supposed to match speed, then filter in to a suitable gap.

Somehow merging traffic seems to get right of way, and god help you if you're in the fast lane if one of these suicidal 'good samaritans' decides to move into your lane at 20mph less than you....