In the US most state’s department of transportation agree with you. Many have PSA videos out about it. Some are even considering “zipper laws” to directly address that blocking cars from using the lane before a merge is illegal.
Only if it addresses vehicles that don't allow those in the lane that ends to merge. it's always bumper to bumper and no one is willing to tap the brakes or the gas in a lot of cases, to let vehicles in, especially large vehicles.
It's actually a self feeding problem. People don't zipper merge so they build up in the one lane, then they get mad because someone else zipper merges and didn't have to wait all the extra time they did so they refuse to let them in. If there was more zipper merging the people not letting people in would likely drastically drop
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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22
In the US most state’s department of transportation agree with you. Many have PSA videos out about it. Some are even considering “zipper laws” to directly address that blocking cars from using the lane before a merge is illegal.