The_Dark_Side said:
quite a few but to be honest to convey the situations accurately and get my point accross i'll need to include diagrams and lengthy descriptions...and no disrespect but i can't be bothered lol.
turn the statement on it's head and ask yourself, do you really believe that the highway code contains every correct and proper response to every possible traffic situation?
no, of course it doesn't.it couldn't as it would need to be bigger than the Encyclopaedia Brittanica to do so.
i totally get where your comming from, and to explain your point ill elaborate a little more. When the traffic in the middle lane is stationary, and you drive down the 3rd lane, and try to merge at the merge point, this is fine. The traffic is stationary anyway, and as per the highway code, you should merge in turn, so that means that the person 1 car back from the merge point, should not pull of when the traffic moves to allow one car in
the merchant banker that i think darkness is referring to, are the ones that merge when the lanes are moving. Here you will most probably find that 3 cars back from the merge point, there is a gap that they could quite easily pull into. Of course when the traffic is moving at speed (not crawling) the difference it makes to the drive is negligible, a second or two at most
the ones that need a good beating, are the ones that ignore the obvious gaps in the traffic that they could merge into, and instead dangerously overtake the 2nd line of traffic, pulling into gaps that dont exist, causing the car behind to brake sharply to avoid going into him. There is no need for this sort of behaviour. If nobody is letting you in, then you slow down and put your indicator on, and slowly edge out untill eventually somebody sees sense and gives way. This sort of people are dangerous
theres no excuse for violently cutting in front of people and jamming on your brakes just so can be a couple of places up the que. Especially when there's adequate gaps 2/3 car lengths back you could have taken but choose not to in your race to get to the front of the que for the next set of lights / row of stationary traffic.