John, Yes, pacing by cars who want to sit in your blind spot, right or left, is the worst. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
