Comments by "Abigor Anathema" (@kruksog) on "America’s Merging Problem - Stop These Dangerous Highway Habits (POV)" video.

  1. People slowing down on on-ramps makes me crazy. I remember one time i almost died getting onto an 85 mph freeway in montana. The car in front of me was making good progress, and had no traffic to worry about. So i checked my mirror and apparently as i began to look over my shoulder to check my blindspot, the car in front of me braked hard. Luckily i had a passenger yell my name immediately and i was able to properly react to the now nearly stopped car. To this day i have no idea why he braked (and so hard!) on that ramp. Literally could have been the end of my life. Im trying to get up to 85, i was probably at 65 with four or five seconds to the merge point, and he just stood on his brakes. Wild. I can see it in my mind's eye still, that moment when i whipped my head back around to see a functionally stopped car just before the merge point. There was not traffic coming he had any reason to be concerned about. God, it scared me. Thats one of those things I have no control over. There was no reason for him to stop! Ugh, i clearly still get worked up just thinking about it.
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