On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:07:26AM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: > On 5/7/09, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > People will actually change speed to track you as you accelerate to 100k so > > that when you get up to speed you can't merge because they are right beside > > you. > > St. Louisans are bad about that. I found that if you just merge > anyway, they'll quickly find some other space to put their car. > > My wife does something similar, but entirely subconsciously. When > someone is trying to pass her, she'll accelerate. She's completely > oblivious.
It happens everywhere. I just assume that some people simply drive to keep up with traffic, rather than maintaining a comfortable speed. Unfortunately if you're the other car that they are watching you're going to have this kind of problem. It's not just speeding up, either. I quite often get annoyed by cars in the outer lane which get up to your rear quarter and then slow down to match your speed. This is OK until you catch up with a slower car in your lane; you can't pull out in front of the car in the outer lane, and if you slow down slightly to let them pass they'll slow down as well. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
