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[-] Nougat@kbin.social 205 points 1 year ago

You should be using all lanes of traffic, and zipper merge at the end.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

The main problem with zipper merges in practice are selfish people who rush to zipper and cause even more congestion because of their erratic attempt to merge. Like traffic circles they work great when everyone is doing it right and they cam get really messed up when people do it wrong.

It would be great if zipper merging was taught as part of getting a license. Or they actually required someone to learn how to zipper merge as part of their license renewal.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

Do you mean "rush to zipper" as in "using an open lane to move forward and then zipper merge into the remaining lane when that one closes?" That is precisely what you should do.

The problem is the selfish people who refuse to let those people actually zipper merge, like OP.

[-] somas@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

@Nougat
It’s hard to discuss zipper merging because people use to justify all sorts of dick behavior. Zipping through an empty left turn only lane to skip to the head of a right turn only lane for example. That’s not an example of zipper merging but there’s tons of people who I’ve seen argue that’s acceptable behavior.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Those people are assholes.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That’s not an example of zipper merging but there’s tons of people who I’ve seen argue that’s acceptable behavior.

We agree that that's not what we're talking about, and those people are wrong. That wasn't hard at all.

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