When driving on a freeway ONRAMP, what do you do?

[maveric]

Maybe I'm wrong here but people here in SoCal need to learn how to drive. I almost got killed a few minutes ago.
How do you do it?

[trof]

1. I try to hit the interstate at 10 miles over the limit.

Honest.

[maveric]

5. Me too!

I swear it, someones going to kill me someday.
Today, I'm getting on this long ramp on I-8W. I speed up like you are supposed to and this woman in an Expedition is slugging along, then stops in the middle of the ramp! I had to slam on my brakes and veer to the right to avoid hitting her. Then she s-l-o-w-l-y eases out when she find a hole, only to have another motorist have to hit his breaks to avoid hitting her.
OMFG! Dont these people ever read the damn driving manual?:banghead:
FUCK! My hands are still shaking!'
I need a cig!

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. What any HUMAN should do - speed up to match highway speed and

move in. Not like a dick, of course, but kindly and gently and people will move over (generally, unless they're from Illinois).

It's the courteous thing to do to have your car at highway speed (or as fast as it can go at that point) when you hit the highway, so you don't force people to slow down.

[maveric]

6. Thats what they taught me in Drivers Ed, 34 years ago.

Did they change the rules since then?
SHIT!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. What did they tell you? Define your pronouns.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. The technical term for on-ramps is

"acceleration lanes."

People need to understand this.

Know it. Live it. Be it.

[trof]

7. Very good!

But many of them aren't long enough.

[maveric]

8. I've never heard it refered to as that.

In CA?

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. In CA, every square inch of road is an acceleration ramp, deceleration

ramp, parking lot, highway, and Nevada Salt Flat Speed Test Range, depending on the time of day.

:7

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Yup

I remember it from driver ed, when cars were like this:

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Wow - you had WHEELS when you learned to drive?

Damn kids nowadays. I learned on a REAL car, before we had these newfangled "wheel" things.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I couldn't find a photo of a model like we had

Our cars had wheels, yeah. But they were square.

[FuzzySlippers]

4. Shut my eyes and pray that no one will hit me

when I pull onto the freeway.

What? Is that the wrong thing?:shrug:

[TrogL]

14. Floor it

You need to hit the ramp doing at least 20 kph above the speed limit because you're coming in at an angle.

Do the math (geometry, actually).

[bbernardini]

15. It depends on the onramp...excuse me, acceleration lane.

:) Around the Philadelphia area, the length of the acceleration lane is fairly random. The ramp I use every morning to go to work has no room to accelerate. If traffic is heavy, one must simply stop, wait for an opportunity, and jam the pedal to the floor. That's a minor freeway, though. However, the major freeways are no better. Some entrances have long acceleration lanes, some barely have enough room to fit one car.