Accelerate to highway speeds when merging, officer explains

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Accelerate to highway speeds when merging, officer explains

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Күн бұрын

Merging onto Florida highways can be stressful, but as long as drivers follow the rules of the road, it would help ease the anxiety.
By state law, a merging motorist must yield the right of way to the existing traffic on a highway - and adjust their speed accordingly, Officer Roy Paz with the Tampa Police Department explained on Good Day Tampa Bay. This means the traffic on the interstate has the right of way.
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@tricao57 3 жыл бұрын

Real tips : First: look at the mirror and the blind spot. Second: if their cars run faster, you go slower, if they run slower, you go faster. Third: make sure the turn signals on when merging. This is like racing theory

@juddy_1997 2 жыл бұрын

And drive to the end of the merge for goodness sake.

@jackhiatt1100 5 ай бұрын

The other day I had a car beside me and his lane said, must turn right, he insisted on driving straight and merging into my lane on a two way bridge

@jackhiatt1100 5 ай бұрын

We need more cops in Oklahoma city, too many reckless people on our streets

@TuhinKona-tz5kh 2 ай бұрын

Today i was in a situation where my car and the other car both accelerate at the same time. What should I do in such situation?

@BboyVReck Ай бұрын

@TuhinKona-tz5kh are you trying to race? If not just let go the throttle.

@nonam3s473 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed so many people who don’t even look when merging, they just assume they have the right away

@mssn3166 3 жыл бұрын

This police officer is full of positive energy

@jojames6621 2 жыл бұрын

the police officer is a low life looser

@zimogaming1423 4 жыл бұрын

If you don’t floor it on every on ramp what are you doing

@madkirk7431 4 жыл бұрын

its too dangerous sometimes...

@frederickgrayson5177 Жыл бұрын

California on ramp merge technique: Accelerate to twice highway speed limit when merging. LOL.

@spamramm568 5 жыл бұрын

Thought this was common knowledge. No wonder there are so many accidents in the Orlando area...

@madkirk7431 4 жыл бұрын

its too dangerous on I-4, unless you want to rear end someone, the traffic on I-4 is usually crawling, i hate taking that freeway

@jimnaden5594 2 жыл бұрын

One disagreement, if I am at a matching speed, and there is an opening I can take, I am merging earlier rather than at the end of the on ramp.

@googleuser2426 27 күн бұрын

These are all contrary to one another especially the zipper and regular merging. Zipper: person in the empty lane has the right away to your lane😂(so they think) Regular Merge: person ALREADY in the lane has the right away.

@jjalltheway3766 3 жыл бұрын

50, 60, 70 mph? not sure where he is driving, but more so than not, people are driving a lot faster than that on yhe highway

@Noone-rt6pw 3 жыл бұрын

It'd do good when those in the right lane would use the 3 second rule, which around 70 m.p.h. becomes a 4 second rule. Where it gives an adequate room to safely merge in. Thank this officer for his testimony!

@eddiehillergrand8882 3 жыл бұрын

Disagree on one point: “merge at the very end of the lane”. Of course it’s important to let drivers in lanes know you are about to merge but don’t wait till the end to merge. It could be considered very dangerous for example if merge lane is about to end and a full load of trucks next to you.

@skooter2196 3 жыл бұрын

Every scenario is different. As soon as the white line breaks is when your technically allowed to merge. His scenario sounds like he's basing it off of non congested traffic. So yes you would utilize the merge lane to speed up, then get over. Otherwise if you just get over then plan to excelerate while there's a car approaching in the slow lane you're just a idiot at that point causing people to hit their breaks for no reason.

@ryans413 3 жыл бұрын

I agree never merge in right at the end but don’t merge early either as soon you get the doted white lines merge in soon you can

@godschampion7569 2 жыл бұрын

Common sense. I'd say merge when it's safe to do so

@boeing-ys7wr 2 жыл бұрын

If traffic is light then yes, but if you are in heavy traffic, it reduces backups to use both lanes for as long as possible.

@666dynomax 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong

@ryans413 4 жыл бұрын

It’s not hard really you speed up as your speeding up look behind you if there’s no one coming then merge into the lane. It gets scary when people go to slow when you go slow highway traffic catches up to you quicker then if you just matched the speed.

@SouthernArcher1962 5 ай бұрын

I wish I could play this video on every screen in the country for a solid month 24/7. Too many people think if they are merging into traffic, they have the right of way and if you are in the lane closest to them, you should get over and let them in. Listen to the first few things the Officer says.

@kenllacer 2 жыл бұрын

This is something you just have to get used to. Like the officer said, you gotta adjust your speed accordingly. It's different every time.

@chhive 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe just in Massachusetts, Masshole think they have the right way when they’re merging.

@LifeFilms15 3 ай бұрын

Mass also has horrible curves+short lanes idk what moron is in charge of designs

@1-shotslinger108 3 жыл бұрын

It says in the driver manual that cars on highway must move over to let you in.

@ryans413 3 жыл бұрын

If they want to but really highway traffic has the right of way

@1-shotslinger108 3 жыл бұрын

@@ryans413 Not if they want to they should move left according to DMC which is now MVC

@vendingdudes 2 жыл бұрын

Must? Nah bro?

@danielfrank4997 2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Get in or you'll go to the shoulder

@FlexSZN23 2 жыл бұрын

No it doesn’t.

@tonygomes8699 2 жыл бұрын

That works if you're a car but an 18 wheeler it takes time to get up to speed if they yield on the ramp. You guys talk all about cars. Do you expect an 18 wheeler to slow down and yield to traffic in the highway. Bad enough people hate us on the road anyway because we're slow I can imagine if I slow down when I get on ramp to the interstate because I can't get in. We truck drivers know exactly how to drive and we always look ahead and we try to get over usually 99% of the time we can. You people that drive cars all the time can get up to speed a lot faster than a truck drivers

@bbreezy2060 3 жыл бұрын

This guys energy was way too high to educate anybody about merging.

@terryhoblit1954 10 ай бұрын

The ones merging. Don't use the turn signal. They don't yield. They don't look to see if it's safe to merge. They have their blinders on and hope they don't get hit merging. They force others to slow down Lastly They don't merge at the proper seed . They merge at 45 mph. Really stupid.

@fleetwin1 7 ай бұрын

Agree to everything but purposely driving to the end of the merge... Why not merge early if there is room and you are up to speed. Needless to say, don't slow down, but only go to the end of the merge if necessary. There is no guarantee there will be room to merge at the end, which can create a dangerous situation.

@dorisw2507 3 жыл бұрын

I like this guy, he made me feel super calm

@kyledailey 4 жыл бұрын

HALF WRONG! ...OR HALF CORRECT!! :-)

@66KMT 11 ай бұрын

I experience way too often people who will not pick up their speed when merging. Just happened behind somebody going 45 miles an hour in a 70! These people should either not get on the interstate or not even have a license and I can’t even believe that this video is necessary. But it is.