Q: I've an ongoing debate with a good friend about shifting to the best within the quick lane when a sooner automobile approaches from the rear. She believes that so long as she goes the pace restrict, she doesn't have to maneuver to the best when a sooner automobile approaches from behind.
I consider that “shifting to the best,” even when driving on the pace restrict, promotes security and assists the circulate of site visitors. Are you able to enlighten us together with your ideas on the matter?
David Conmy, San Jose
A: You win the talk. My ideas are in line with what the DMV instructs within the “Site visitors Speeds” part of its Driver Handbook:
“Driving slower than different autos or stopping immediately might be simply as harmful as rushing, if no more harmful, as a result of chances are you'll trigger a rear-end collision or trigger different drivers to swerve to keep away from hitting your automobile. If you're within the quick lane and also you discover autos shifting to the best lane to go you, or a line of autos is forming behind you, the perfect factor to do is transfer into the best lane, when it's secure, and let the automobile(s) go.”
For extra info, see: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-handbooks/.
Q: I've zero sympathy for individuals taken in by a few of the roadside scams you've detailed lately. So these “Good Samaritans,” solely out to assist individuals from the goodness of their coronary heart, supply to purchase $1,000 value of jewellery from an individual stranded on the aspect of the highway for $120. You had one the place somebody was providing a Rolex to get to the airport. I needed to chortle.
What grasping individuals. They thought they have been making the most of somebody in determined straits and need to be taken benefit of. They definitely don't deserve sympathy.
Terry Pratchett wrote about this fantastically in his ebook “Going Postal.” The principle character counts on individuals’s greed and making an attempt to reap the benefits of him as he sells a “diamond ring” for a tenth of what it's value as a result of “he's determined to get dwelling” after which the persons are shocked after they attempt to promote the ring later and discover that it's made out of glass. It's a nice ebook – extremely advisable.
James Hinkin, San José
A: Yours is a priceless perspective. I didn't get the concept that those that wrote in have been stopping for a reward. As an alternative, it appeared to me that they have been motivated by making an attempt to assist somebody they thought was in misery, after which the scammer pitched the sob story and proposed the trade of jewellery for cash.
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