On 6/7/2010 9:07 AM, scott wrote:
>> * The acceleration lanes for entering the freeway ARE NOT PASSING
>> LANES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PASS VEHICLES IN THIS LANE.
>
> Also, you are meant to ACCELERATE in these lanes! On Saturday I followed
> a car that stayed at a steady 40-50 km/hr and attempted to join a pretty
> empty autobahn where the cars were doing ~120 km/hr. When you're stuck
> behind one of these people there isn't much you can do, and you will be
> the one who gets the horn blast and flashing lights for pulling out so
> slowly.

Gah!  Yet another peeve... but, yeah. Needless to say merging onto a 
70mph road at 50mph is not going to win you any friends.
-- 
~Mike

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