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In <71851@ut-emx.uucp>, johnson@ut-emx.uucp (Karen J. Morgan) wrote:

| you drive like our pal from NYC, Andy Nguyen, slap on your left turn
| signal, accelerate into traffic, and by golly get on the freeway.

> Yes, this is how it's supposed to be done, and even if you get
> up a head of steam and can't merge "gracefully," it *is* possible
> to keep driving straight ahead.  Those white lines are not curbs!

I used to do this: accelerate to about 65 mph, and brake into traffic
from the entrance ramps (a fast car is a huge win on that road).

But sometimes that doesn't work.  I was following my usual strategy
one day, and there was a *>hitchhiker<* just past the end of the
entrance ramp (yes, lower level).  Going straight was not an option,
nor was stopping at this point - I could not have stopped in time.

I did manage to merge, but it was a bit exciting: there wasn't much
room when I squeezed in, the engine red-line buzzer was screaming, and
the hitchhiker was trying to jump up the concrete embankment.

So I don't do that any more.  I don't use the lower level entrances at
all, since no other strategy appears to have a chance.  And I'll bet
that hitchhiker doesn't use the lower level any more either.
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