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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
On Friday last week the Mrs. and I were on the interstate, tooling along in the fast lane at a rate of about 8 mph over the limit. As I approached a semi to pass it I happened to look toward my right as I was very close to the back of the semi. I spotted a fast moving BMW heading for the quickly closing gap. I thought he would not make it and steered to my left and braked a bit to give him more room. He shot the gap with inches to spare on both his corners. If I had not given him room I believe we would have had a real problem.
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It amazes me the risks people take to save 5 seconds. I've had this happen on 5 lane urban freeways - when I was in the 2nd slowest lane.
How many people here will accelerate to close the gap when they see someone coming up on the right to shoot a gap like this? I am not at all interested in playing traffic cop, but it does seem safer to shut down the risk taking driver than to enable the maneuver. (I'm assuming there's more time and space to react than Tom describes in his little adventure.) I'm sure Brian will have an opinion on the proper response
