How about all the Spider-Man movies that were just an excuse to keep the movie rights?

If engineers ruled the world, then every intersection would be a 4-level stack. Efficiency isn’t the only factor, or else we’d all be on buses anyway.

I’m with you. Pacing the traffic should actually help the zipper merge, since it equalizes the speeds between the two lanes.

Bingo! Our driver’s education standards in this country are ridiculously poor. The zipper merge is relatively harmless - the one that really bothers me is that most of us have never been taught the modern rules of sharing the road with cyclists, scooters, and the other flotsam which have become so common over the past…

I like this - merging is definitely a collaborative activity. But most of that is about communicating your intentions clearly rather than speeding up or slowing down.

I don’t think there’s a good hard-and-fast rule for your circumstance. I’d be inclined to stay right (I’m always inclined to stay right except to pass), then merge left into the opposite lane during the weave. But I think it really just depends on the stream of traffic coming onto the collector-distributor road from…

One of only two or three things from racing which I think is directly applicable to normal driving is that it’s always easier to peel off speed than to gain it. If people would just learn that, maybe they’d figure out to get up to highway speed before reaching the merge point.

Yes, using the exit lane to pass people is its own special kind of hell. It’s why I can’t stand auxiliary lanes even though they’re technically more efficient, because you can never tell if somebody is screaming down the auxiliary lane to exit, or just to be a jackass and pass people. FWIW, it’s almost always illegal…

Cutting in front of a hundred people, causing them to jam on the brakes at the last moment, is being the asshole. Just because something is more efficient doesn’t always make it right...

Whatever you do, finish it off with silicone spray. Cuts the effort to open the door in half, at least. Just warn everyone who uses the door regularly, or they will slide it right off its tracks because it’ll slide so easily!

It’s not a dumb question - I think we’ve all asked it at least once!

Yeah, what was with that? The French Open I understand, but lacrosse?!?! 

Indeed. Personally, I'm more annoyed when Indy and F1 decide to take the exact same breaks... and then schedule three races on one weekend. 

It really stings that such a car exists and we can’t have it. Not going to blame anyone - it’s tempting to blame people for choosing crossovers and/or the government either for driving automakers into them or for making it too expensive to certify low-volume variants.

Throes, not throws.

I am in full support of more driver training. We should use the Finnish model. I fundamentally don’t understand why Vision Zero types don’t go down this road - instead, they just try to put safety bumpers on every corner and make it more expensive to drive - and yet the size of one’s pocketbook has no bearing on…

OK, the Indy 500 probably isn’t a great example because it’s one of the most dangerous closed course races. But in general, you’re right.

I think you mean, “...if a much larger vehicle.” That’s the OP’s point - speed itself can’t explain crash frequency - only severity once it’s happened.

I’m confused. Weaving is just caused by a lack of lane discipline - keep right, pass left. Lane discipline is actually what keeps us safer, not arbitrarily lowering speed limits.

On most freeways, everyone can pick their own speed and there’s no reason why you can’t do well over 100 safely. Keep right, pass left, and everybody can choose the speed at which they are comfortable.