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Old August 8th 06, 08:38 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
Alan Baker
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Default And Now For a Bad Lane Change

In article >,
Arif Khokar > wrote:

> Alan Baker wrote:
>
> > He makes a perfectly normal change into your lane and then slows
> > slightly

>
> He slowed down quite a bit more than just "slightly."


Watch the cadence of the lane markers passing the camera car. It barely
changes.

>
> > to align with a space in the lane to your left *behind* the
> > motorcycle.

>
> He could have just let up on the accelerator and switched lanes behind.
> It looks like he slowed down by at least 10 mph.


Switched lanes behind whom? Wouldn't that have given the person in the
other lane just as much reason to complain.

No one is guaranteed a drive without the need to change speeds to adjust
to traffic.

The Silverado driver placed no one at risk -- never came close to the
hyperbolic "clobbering" of the motorcycle that the OP claimed -- and
didn't inconvenience anyone more than 5 seconds worth either.

Normal city driving.

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Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
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