- What do jet airplanes, dead horses,
and merging onto a highway have in common?
Today, we're going to talk about how to merge
onto a highway or interstate correctly
so you don't end up like the horse.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
(upbeat music)
Okay, let's talk about one more thing,
let's just get on the horse.
I don't think the horse is very alive anymore.
I think the horse is kind of lame, one leg,
and the horse, not doing so well.
It's an old nag and this is,
this horse has been pretty beaten up.
It's in the desert on a horse with no name, that's a song.
♪ On a horse with no name ♪
♪ Ba ba ba bum ba bum bum ♪
There it is, there's the song.
Okay, so we're on the horse again,
we're talking about getting on the highway,
getting on the freeway,
merging onto the highway,
and stopping on acceleration lane ramps, okay?
Anybody who says that to anybody else,
that you can stop on the acceleration lane,
I have a big stick here somewhere,
I'm going to go find the stick, I'm going to find,
actually, I'm going to go find a shovel.
I'm going to dig a big hole and I'm going to bury you in it,
because don't ever, don't ever, ever, ever,
I can't say that enough,
ever, ever, ever stop on an acceleration lane, okay?
You will die, you will die.
(buzzer screeching)
I can't put it any more clearly than that.
And I've been thinking about this,
and it has been taking up a lot of real estate in my brain,
about how to explain to new drivers
that when you get on that acceleration lane,
you are committed.
And if you stop, or you slow down,
or you do anything that is anything
but putting your foot on the throttle
and getting or going, is dangerous, dumb, and stupid.
I can't say anything else about that, okay?
I just, I'm having a go at you.
So what I came up with is, getting on a freeway,
on an acceleration lane,
is exactly like taking off in a plane.
That plane, you get on a plane,
and you taxi out to the runway and you wait there,
you're sitting on the plane
and you're waiting for the plane to go.
And then the plane comes out,
the air traffic controllers say to the pilots,
they say, "Okay, get out on the runway," and they line up.
And this is exactly what you're doing.
when you're on the on-ramp,
coming out onto the freeway, interstate.
You're lining up, you're getting ready to go.
Because as soon as they hit that throttle,
as soon as those jet engines spool up, it's go-time.
And there's no aborting, you can't abort,
the plane cannot aboard.
Once that plane hammer down,
jet engines are spooled up, they are going,
they are taking off.
And it is the same thing in your car
when you go from on-ramp to acceleration lane.
When you were on that acceleration lane,
you've picked your gap,
you picked your hole, and you are going.
And I find one more person that tells a new driver
that they can stop in that acceleration lane,
I'm going to find them, I'm going to hunt them down,
and I'm going to bury them in a hole, okay?
Because this has taken up a lot of space in my brain
to explain it to new drivers that you cannot ever,
ever, ever stop on acceleration lane.
Please, don't, it's so incredibly dangerous,
incredibly dangerous.
I mean, not only the vehicles on the highway,
it's just, you're going to get creamed,
you're going to get creamed.
This is what I need to say to you.
So when you come out on the highway, freeway,
or interstate, you pick your hole.
When you're looking at the highway,
you're looking at the traffic,
if there's a big truck out there,
plan to get in behind the big truck,
not in front of the big truck.
In behind the big truck.
Pick your hole, line up for that hole,
and you're going for the hole, okay?
Because if you got something to aim for,
something to shoot for, you're going to be on the throttle.
you're going to be going.
And I have all kinds of other smart drivers that say to me,
"The acceleration lane's really short."
Well, if the acceleration lane is really short,
then you need to be using some of the on-ramp
to get your foot into the throttle.
Because I'll tell you,
if my old 30-year-old buggy
will get up to 100 kilometers an hour
in a very short space of time,
I'm telling you that there's no acceleration lane
and no vehicle in this day and age
that won't get up to at least 50,
60 miles an hour before you start moving out
onto that highway, freeway.
All right, so we rode the dead horse one more time.
(laughs)
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