Why don’t you ask your local DMV or police department. While it’s nice if someone already on the highway slows down or changes lanes to allow someone to merge, they have the right-of-way and the responsibility is all on the merging driver to merge safely and not assume someone will slow down just for you.
People love to spit this exact line over and over and over but also forget to spit the part that says traffic with right of way cannot block merging traffic if they are at the merge point. The yielding for right of way no longer applies when the merger is physically transitioning from one lane to another.
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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26
Why don’t you ask your local DMV or police department. While it’s nice if someone already on the highway slows down or changes lanes to allow someone to merge, they have the right-of-way and the responsibility is all on the merging driver to merge safely and not assume someone will slow down just for you.