re: A reminder that zipper merging is how your supposed to handle merging

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What they don't realize is their argument should be applied to non-zipper merging. The fact that there are people on the road who will use the closing lane to go quicker means zipper merging will be more efficient. If everyone was selfless and moved over when at the earliest point, non-zipper merging may work efficiently, but the fact that some will use the closing lane to speed up means this technique will cause traffic delays.

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You just described the real world.

Either way would work if done by everyone. Neither are, which is why it's a cluster. The difference is that one side thinks one group are just idiots for not knowing how to do it properly, the other side thinks the ones running along side are skipping the line...because they are, given how the real world works.

In a situation where so few are doing it correctly, you have a choice of being wrong and seen as not an a-hole by fellow drivers and getting over as early as possible to avoid delays, or doing it "right" and being seen as a dickhead by fellow drivers who see you literally cutting ahead of them and who will inevitable refuse to let you merge because they see you as an a-hole.

I can accept the fact that zipper merging is "correct" and also refuse to do it because I recognize that almost no one else is and I can't be the a-hole that is jumping in front of a bunch of people that honestly think they're doing the right thing...it's not like we can pull over and have a discussion about zipper merging on the side of I-10.