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Flag: Merging at 40

5XLF500 California
Friday, August 10, 2007
CA 5XLF500
Dark grey or black JEEP  Compass
Los Altos, California
lmolwyr

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Encountered on the ramp from 280N to 85N in Los Altos on Saturday, August 4, 2007 at roughly 10:45 PM. There was no thru traffic on 85N, but this Jeep Compass driver took the ramp at 40 mph anyway, backing up the 4 cars behind him (including me). The curve of this ramp is such that you can easily take it at 65. The actual merge part (which can be confusing as 2 lanes suddenly disappear) doesn't occur until several hundred feet past the ramp. Something tells me that this Compass was a rental. There are just certain cars in the San Jose area that are only bought by rental car companies.

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