Remember folks, when merging onto the motorway, the vehicle on the motorway has right of way and doesn’t have to yield(not my picture)
Remember folks, when merging onto the motorway, the vehicle on the motorway has right of way and doesn’t have to yield(not my picture)
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Where was this chief?
How do ya manage to merge into an artic?
Looks like they drove across the grass margin to get there?
Anyone know where is this? Looks like the slip lane is still going for a bit, did the car just cut across the grass?
And remember folks, DON’T BE TRYING TO MERGE ONTO A MOTORWAY AT 50KMPH! DRIVE ON WILL YA!
I always thought it was good manners to move over to the fast lane to allow traffic from the slipway to get onto the motorway.
Average new type mammy civic driver
This is getting worse and worse in the last few months. I see it all the time that the person coming onto the motorway expects the car on the motorway should slow down to allow them to enter it. If you don’t it will be an accident as they just plough on and follow the white line to allow them on…..too many plonkers in Ireland need to be told how to drive again
People don’t merge until the marked end of the slip road as well. I was taught you merge as soon as possible.
and if there is 100m of clear road in front and behind me, use that instead of insisting on merging onto the 3m of road i am taking up and expecting me to make way.
Cars don’t merge into the left hand lane there.
Two lanes become three, with the two on the right coming out of the tunnel.
[Shot from google maps](https://i.imgur.com/X6p52LW.png)
It seems more likely that the truck came out of the tunnel and changed lanes into the car.
That car is way before the off ramp.
Was this from the previous off ramp?
What might also help is go higher than 3rd fucking gear and not try to merge while barely going 50kph
Really want Smacs now
PSA: If you are in a car, don’t test/argue with trucks. Trucks always win.
Never drove an artic, but I have driven smaller trucks.
A lot of people don’t really appreciate the stopping distance on these things. If you pop out in front of a truck and expect it to slow down, you’re going to get rear ended.
Don’t try to get in front of a truck unless you’re already matching or beating its speed, or there’s a solid chance you’ll end up injured
Dickheads using the inside lane next to a off slip need fucked and burned in my opinion
And remember folks supermacs is fresh and tasty.
Damn I’m going to get me some taco chips now
But I was indicating!?!
Common sense has meant this isn’t an issue for me when either merging or letting someone merge. I would have assumed the law was you have to let people merge though as they’ll run out of road pretty quickly if you don’t let them in
Passed an old fella driving the wrong way on the Ballincollig bypass on the 120km stretch on Sunday.
Car overtaking me got a fair fright.
Wish I had a dash cam.
The slip roads on the limerick city bypass are lethal. At night then a million times worse.
tell that to the Go Ahead bus that nearly killed me
The irish system for this is nuce because its simple. In other countries its very unclear who has right of way at times, eg at intersections of more than two roads.
Am I missing something? Cus the explanation in the title doesn’t seem right from what I can see in the photo.
The slip road is up ahead, and behind there’s no merging lane just a hard shoulder. How is the red car merging?
If that car merged onto the motorway there it must have gone over the grass and crash barrier, do they not merge further up?
Any time I hear or see driving advice a small voice I my says “brought to you by the road safety authority”
This only works if people on the motor way arent going bumper to bumper at 100.
Leave distance between you and the car in front so others can fucking match speed and merge.
Oh if only everyone followed that rule! I was nearly wiped out when a huge truck like that from PF company he just turned out over the painted island and even blew his hooter at me and signaled I should have moved over. No as you say I have the right of way not them.
The car merging should adjust speed to merge safely. That depends on traffic conditions on the motorway. Merging at 10kph is fine if thats the speed the traffic is going. When there’s no traffic, 120 or 100 depending on the speed limit . This all works fine except when some dumb cunt on the motorway speeds up to close a gap when then see you coming, simply to try to stop you merging. Why??????
My logic is lorry’s are mainly what’s in the slow lane, they are restricted to 63mph ( In England anyway) if I merge at 75mph (and then slow down to 70mph obviously 👀 I cannot be a danger, can anyone say if my logic is correct or flawed?
In this regard the nordies are a lot worse, blatanty pulling in at low speeds all the time.
Any other tips for driving in your wonderful country? I will be visiting in about a week and have lots of driving in my itinerary. This particular tip is the same as here in the USA. I’m happy for any and all advice y’all can give so I’m not the asshole on the road!
The continental MW’s have a sign to tell who has priority & who doesn’t.
Because there’s no ‘yield’ triangle for coming on MW, they think they have both a duty & a right to merge & *never slow down or even stop* if the road is too busy – god forbid.
I thought that each driver has equal rights to the slow lane. Both should pay attention and as the vehicle in the slow lane comes parallel up the slip road it should move into the middle lane and allow traffic to merge.. equally the merging traffic should speed up and take a suitable gap
Back in my day the M50 was a carpark, and this would never have happened. I blame the tolls.
Don’t think they were merging on ? The grass verge goes on further there, no?
I hate people who flash MULTIPLE times to “let you out” I had it man. I was ready. Then you decided to sear a hole in my retinas. Fuck sake.
To the red car:
There are at least two pedals in your vehicle. One of them makes the trees go by slower. The other, when pressed to the floor, makes the trees go by faster. If you find yourself on the roadway frontier next to a large, multi-tonne heavy truck, judicious application of either pedal will allow you to either overtake and merge ahead, or slow and merge behind him. But for fuck’s sake, *make a gattdamned decision and act on it*.
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to dodge a milquetoast non-commital driver poking along at 70kph on a 100+ kph highway.
[](/GNU Terry Pratchett)
The amount of people that use motorways that have no clue how to use them is scary.
It’s a lot to do with the driving test the way you are not taught how to drive on motorways, but suddenly you are allowed on them when you have you’re full license…
I was tearing down an autoban to Munich years ago. This lad tried to merge after coming to a complete stop. I couldn’t go out due to traffic so nothing for it but to go into the slip yer man had come out of, around and off with me. GF at the time said she pissed herself, thought we were curtains.
In general I try to move a lane over to the right, assuming that I am driving in Ireland, the UK, or any other country which drives on the wrong side of the road, or to the left for countries which drive on the right side.