Changing Lanes & Merging

Video Transcript

"Alright, the next thing we're going to talk about is merging onto a freeway. We are turning on to a freeway on ramp right here and we have a lot of traffic in front of us so we want to accelerate at the same speed the rest of the traffic is. Normally what you're going to do if you're the only one on the on ramp is look at the traffic that's on the freeway and try and match their speed so that when you reach the point when you can merge, that you can just slide right over. And you want to be watching in your driver side mirror as you're approaching the merge area to see if there's anyone on your rear quarter panel. See if there's anyone there and then if it's clear, and if it's clear to the side of you as you look out your window, then go ahead and turn your blinker on and merge over. And then once you are on the freeway, if you're going a fair distance you might want to move over a lane and it's very similar. Same thing, you look in your mirror and you see if anyone is coming. If there is, you let them pass you or wait until they drop back a little bit, you signal, and you just turn the wheel ever so slightly to move you over into the next lane. Now when you're merging to the right obviously you need to check the mirror on the passenger side of your car to make sure there is no one there and he's going slow enough that I can just go ahead and merge over in front of him. He's far enough back. Slide right over there. Turn off your blinker when you get into the lane that way you're not driving down the road with your blinker on confusing other drivers. And that's about it on merging and changing lanes."