Even that can be tricky, with the indecisive behavior people use when merging.

tadfisher 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That one's easy: leave space in front of you for those merging onto the highway.

So much of road etiquette boils down to leaving adequate space so others can maneuver around you. Trying to optimize your travel by destroying any gaps as soon as they appear actually has the opposite effect.

	▲	HPsquared 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		James May calls this "Christian motoring". Golden Rule etc
	▲	dekhn 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		While leaving space is nice, the person on the highway already typically has right-of-way.
	▲	rconti 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's really not. I drive at an upper-percentile pace, so I am rarely dawdling along in the right lane. However, on the rare occasion I've found myself going slowly in the right lane, it's stunning how incompetent most people are at merging. It's like they don't even consider looking for an opening in traffic, matching the freeway speed, etc. They just lumber in front of you at 43mph, and maybe, if you're lucky, look in their mirrors after they've already caused you to slow for them.

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bloomingeek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Very true and it's the reason I will always leave several car gaps in front of me in heavy traffic. Just because I have electric brakes on my travel trailer, it doesn't mean I can slow down normally, they just assist. Most people really don't think about that, of course, so they ignore the trailer and just weave in and out.

Speed is a very dangerous thing when pulling any type of trailer and it always amazes me when I see a truck pulling one at break neck speeds and somehow thinking they can maneuver normally when someone causes a situation where they have to make a split second decision.