Road Warrior

Whether you are a driver or rider, you probably should have heard about the unwritten lane merging rule. When 2 lanes merge into one (non-freeway lanes), in the ideal case, vehicles should merge in the order of left car, right car, left car ... etc. Alternatively, whichever car is in front should have the right of way during the merge. I spent less than an hour on the roads today and amazingly managed to encounter 2 moronic drivers with no lane merging etiquettes whatsoever.

The first maniac was driving his "high performance" G-Plated goods van (speed limit = 60 km/h). He ignored the fact that my vehicle was in front and proceeded to overtake halfway during the merge, nearly taking out my right wing mirror. Obviously I didn't let him get away without a long blast of the horn. After that, he kept on the right lane at 70-80 km/h when the Expressway limit is 90 km/h, thus breaking TWO traffic laws at once (Speeding + Road Hogging)! This went on for about 5 km before Mr. G-Plate decided to back off into the middle lane.

The second was a blue taxi which attempted the same manoeuver. Fortunately this time there wasn't enough space for him to get past without hitting my car.

One possible reason for such behaviour could be that they cannot stand to be stuck behind a C3. (assumed to be a slow, underpowered vehicle, likely an auntie on the way to the supermarket ... NOT!)

Anyway, this is quite the norm on SG roads today (unfortunately). Don't know why but everyone seems to want to be "one up" on each other. Perhaps THIS may offer some explanation. Cars_