Hey - car driver that is merging onto the freeway - I have a few things to tell you:

When merging onto a freeway, it is a good idea to have a look at the oncoming traffic while you are on the ramp. The last dash of the white line on the merge lane is not a good time to look over at oncoming traffic for the first time. 

Another thing is that the freeway onramp was built to your advantage. Even though your Kia is pumping out almost 100 horsepower, the ramp is usually at a decline down to the freeway, giving you physics to speed that thing up. There really is no reason to be at my front bumper while I am doing 65 and you are doing 40. You just came down a big hill. I have been driving on the flat for miles. You really can get up to speed by the time you hit the freeway!!

Finally, you may have seen a triangular sign somewhere on that onramp - it is a Yield sign. Now, this is not a sign letting you know what to expect other traffic to do. Conversely, it is assigning you an action item for this freeway onramp transaction - YOU need to yield. That Yield sign takes away your right to flip me off when you find yourself at the end of the merge lane and you have seen me for the first time - 65' and 35k pounds, merely inches from your 3200 pound Altoid can. You may NOT be upset with me because I've been here the whole time! All you had to do was glance over. You would have seen me long before now.

I don't even think I am asking for a whole lot - just a little heads up driving. Trust me - it is a lot more difficult for me to slow all this down to yield to YOU, and then get it back up to speed. I promise you - I would move over if I could. Just because you can't see the two cars and a motorcycle on the other side of me doesn't mean they aren't there. I won't take them out just so you can merge on the freeway at 45MPH without even looking.

Don't even get me started on freeway onramps on a hill climb.  

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