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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
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Subject: Re: Entrance ramp crawl
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:11:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 04:11:49 1984
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> > 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