Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!wildbill From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Entrance ramp crawl Message-ID: <2340@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:11:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2340 Posted: Thu Oct 4 04:11:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 04:41:42 EDT References: <525@ihu1g.UUCP> <687@osu-dbs.UUCP> <858@opus.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 35 > > 4) The Entrance Ramp Crawl -- > > ... This problem is particularly evident in the state of New York... > Well, it's worse in CO than in NY. It seems to be comparatively rare in > CA. > -- > Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 I certainly hope you aren't talking about Northern California here. There are more than enough drivers in the vicinity guilty of just such tactics. One plausible reason for this maneuver is that the driver thinks he's still driving his '68 Belchfire-8 and can reach escape velocity in 5 seconds. There are still some of those left around here, but very few of them can manage this stunt. Meanwhile, I'm hauling a** around a tight cloverleaf (examples for locals: University Ave-southbound 80 in Berkeley or 84-southbound 101 in Menlo Park) in my One-Lung Special, trying to keep my speed up so I can hit the highway at a decent rate and start trying to crawl up the guy's tailpipe just like anywhere else. Or maybe he's actually got a Belchfire-8 and gets out there OK; unfortunately, \\I'm// still stuck. Southern California drivers seem to handle this type of situation fairly well. I get into far less problems of this sort, except in such places as the Pasadena Freeway (the first freeway in the U.S., and built before anybody knew anything about designing freeways -- on-ramps have stop signs (really!!!) at the entry point, and lots of off-ramps are 5-15 mph and mean it, too) where this behavior is mandated by law. I haven't seen much flaming yet about the converse maneuver: the guys who slow down to 30 or so a few hundred yards before the off-ramp. Perhaps they're afraid of missing their exit... Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill