Reply to post: Left or right to merge?

Perhaps middle-aged blokes SHOULDN'T try 34-hour-long road trips

pyite

Left or right to merge?

I used to drive a long way to and from work, so I actually thought about this one. I'm in the U.S. so the sides may be opposite.

On a road with two directions separated by a line, it would be more dangerous to make the lane toward the center (faster lane) merge. I can easily imagine head-on collisions from this.

However, for roads that are one direction only, it is better to force the faster lane to merge into the slower.

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