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Took me 4 years to figure out why people brake on highway on-ramps
I drive a 45 minute commute on I-35 near Waco every morning and I swear half the drivers tap their brakes right at the bottom of the on-ramp before merging. For the longest time I thought they were just scared of the semi trucks. Then a buddy who teaches driving school rode with me and pointed out the real problem, people enter the ramp at 40 mph and stay there, so by the time they reach the merge point they are going way slower than traffic and panic brake. I started matching highway speed on the ramp itself, around 65, and I have not had a single close call in 7 months. My wife still does the 40 mph thing and I have to bite my tongue in the passenger seat. Does anyone else notice this or is it just a central Texas thing?
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charlesm5223d ago
What gets me is the folks who speed up on the ramp then slam the brakes at the last second because they ran out of room. Happens a lot where the ramp is short and ends in a hard curve, like the one at the 35/84 split. Do you change how you merge when the ramp itself is the problem and you can't see traffic until you are almost on top of it?
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