When driving a car and you must merge, is it better to be an early merger or a late merger?

It depends on what you are doing for everyone, or you are acting in a good way for you (game theory)

If your action is good for everyone, you will merge as soon as possible, and you have time to keep pace

This is what I did ... merge A.S.A.P. and cross another lane to make room for the next comers. This often facilitates the flow of traffic ... some smart countries even have laws that require this action, and if you are caught, you are fined between $ 200 and $ 300 You need to pay.

If you use game theory to "win", you will merge in the last second, and you use any merged lane to pass the right to get "advantage" of 0.04 seconds can do

Look, my truck weighs 8400 pounds 1996 Ford 1 ton utility truck. I am three times yours. There is also an actual steel baffle. So ... you hit me, you lost.

Finally ... When you try to pull Nellie at the last minute (or weave traffic illegally in a reckless and aggressive way), I drive to whistle and clean up your top.

If you truly use your own garbage to make me angry, I even get your license plate number and may call you a reckless and aggressive driver (in most places It can be a little with a $ 400 ticket)

Conclusion: We will cooperate so that we can reach the places we are going, or away from me as soon as possible. If you do not have the right plan, it does not constitute my "emergency".

Note: In the spirit of providing a fair warning next month, there is the following signature behind my equipment.

In order to drive my mad inbox, I got lots of lots and lots of comments about the merger late. They said that this is how rude the driver is, why everyone merges more politely and late and does not lead to anger in my way. As the driver is very enthusiastic about this problem, I believe that I will receive 1000 emails about this story. If you are an early merger, you are doing something wrong. I must have cursed you my name then. Everyone is waiting tightly to cross the blocking point, and finally just looking at the small opening that the driver hid in front of you. At the office. You will be left there for infinite long-distance traffic as you think the initial merger is more polite. Ok, for your initial merger, I have three words, a zipper effect.

The main purpose of Late Merge developed by PennDOT is to reduce road storms during early and late mergers by notifying the drivers so that traffic can travel to the junction of two lanes. Although this is not a standard practice, Late Mergeis is often used in the highway work area of ​​the PennDOT regional office. That does not matter, it seems to be very popular with drivers. As a result of examining the operation result, it was found that the capacity of integrated operation increased by 15% (Footnote 5).