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Rahul Dhesi wrote:

>In <35a59344.16556472@news.v-wave.com> grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon
>Sommerville) writes:
>
>>If it is more than 3 or 4 seconds, chances are that the guys in front
>>of you are accelerating away.  Regardless, why is it such an issue to
>>yield the lane?
>
>You would have to observe the following distance for some time to
>figure our who is accelarating relative to whom.  If the following
>distance ahead of me remains the same, then I am going at the
>same speed as the next guy.

Perhaps, so why not close up to a two second differential?

>It's an issue to yield the lane for the same reason that when you are
>standing in line at a grocery store checkout counter, you don't step
>aside to let everybody behind you get ahead of you.  Let them wait their
>turn in their queue.

If I let someone ahead, I now have to wait a little longer to clear
the register (which I may do if they only have a few items and I have
a lot), if I'm driving and let someone ahead who is traveling faster
than me, I don't lose anything at all.  Is your place in a line so
important to you, despite the line not having a defined goal, that you
will not yield it, even if you lose nothing?
-- 
Brandon

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