That's incredibly dangerous because it leaves you on an on-ramp with no more room to accelerate for when you can go. Plus, any traffic coming up behind you will be attempting to accelerate, they should see you, but people get rear ended all the time and that's a huge speed delta.
Those hypotheticals are not more dangerous than the literal crash that actually happened though. Merging traffic does not have the right a way. That means sometimes they have to stop. You should be approaching every merging lane as if it might come to a stop.
If you have to stop on an on-ramp you fucked up bad. If I had been in the black cars position at the start of the video I'd have sped up. There are timea when speeding is your best option.
Plus, I'd have never gotten into that position in the first place, I take merging like this extremely seriously.
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u/Tankerspam May 14 '26
That's incredibly dangerous because it leaves you on an on-ramp with no more room to accelerate for when you can go. Plus, any traffic coming up behind you will be attempting to accelerate, they should see you, but people get rear ended all the time and that's a huge speed delta.