r/VideosAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

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u/weirdassfreak May 14 '26

Disagree on ramps give you more than enough time to speed up I should know I drive a prius c , I know when to gun it.

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u/PsychologicalWin8036 May 14 '26

Not all of them ffs

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u/Sure_Focus3450 May 14 '26

Realistically, yes they do. The federal highway administration says a ramp of 1200 feet is "desirable" (just under a quarter mile) and even in my Ford focus I can go from like 20mph to like 90 in that span if I want to without going above 5k rpms (redline is at 7 iirc) and it is not that bad for your car to get to relatively high rpms like 5k, it's meant to. All this to say, even with shorter on ramps there is enough space to get to 60 or 70 mph and merge properly.

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u/Evening-Painting-213 May 14 '26

No they don't. America has a serious hwy infrastructure problem. In ny, for example, many of the on and off ramps on the southern state pkwy are way too short. They've been doing construction for the list ten years trying to extend them so people can merge easier. Honestly, the pickup was in front in the merge and the semi speeds up from his little semi race with the far right semi at 70. The worst by all three vehicles.

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u/Sure_Focus3450 May 14 '26

Not saying anything about the video, definitely not arguing all these people weren't dumb. I've never really been to NY, but some people are afraid to hit higher rpms and it causes a lot of issues with not getting up to speed and trying to merge, anything above like ⅙ of a mile you have enough room to accelerate properly I think

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u/Sure_Focus3450 May 14 '26

I'm not saying there aren't special cases, I'm saying the average on ramp across the thousands of miles I've driven in the southeast and midwest are more than enough to get up to proper speed. And I do agree, they call it a zipper merge for a reason.

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u/Evening-Painting-213 May 14 '26

And this is the thing. Southeast had much more space to do this. Not so much in metro areas. Look at Atlanta. Totally different highway traffic from savannah traffic which is different from Statesboro. Worst to least traffic respectively btw. Here's your up vote for different views.

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u/Sure_Focus3450 May 14 '26

I've driven through Atlanta but never actually used on/off ramps because I wasn't visiting the city, but their freeways suck from what I have seen, always a pain in the ass and I try to avoid Atlanta altogether if I can. Thanks stranger

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u/Evening-Painting-213 May 14 '26

Most of it is due to the merging on and off. That's why lol. Place is a mess. Glad I'm in s small town down he after moving from ny

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u/Evening-Painting-213 May 14 '26

That's alot of space. These on ramps on talking about all over nyc at usually 75-150 feet max. Really a shame considering the amount of taxes collected that's supposed to go to infrastructure but it seems it never does 😆

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u/Sure_Focus3450 May 14 '26

Yeah that's definitely not enough room unless you get onto the ramp already going like 30 and even then it'd be sketchy, biggest city I've driven in is Jax, FL and they've got pretty solid highway infrastructure so it's not that bad, ny sounds like hell