Not again...What the heck GM? UPDATED AGAIN Dec.12

[Chuck FB]

13 hours ago, Pryme said:

Doing 90 on the freeway onramp!!! Vin diesel filming fast and the furious: heavy duty! Coming to a theater near you. 
 

yeah I’d be trading that for sure. 

LOL, I am going to take a guess its 90 km an hour as in 55 miles an hour since he lives right down in the south west part of BC and hence the rain that BC and northern Washington are getting that is literally drowning them as the photo captures the rain.

[KARNUT]

3 minutes ago, Chuck FB said:

LOL, I am going to take a guess its 90 km an hour as in 55 miles an hour since he lives right down in the south west part of BC and hence the rain that BC and northern Washington are getting that is literally drowning them as the photo captures the rain.

In Texas with some short on ramps merging onto interstate 10. With the speed limit being 75 mph and everyone doing 80 mph. Ninety mph would be easier than jamming the brakes and getting rear ended by the guy behind you looking to his left. Trying to merge. 

[Chuck FB]

41 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

In Texas with some short on ramps merging onto interstate 10. With the speed limit being 75 mph and everyone doing 80 mph. Ninety mph would be easier than jamming the brakes and getting rear ended by the guy behind you looking to his left. Trying to merge. 

 

I was so tempted to actually point that out as per a Texas driving theme but thought no, I better hold my tongue  

 

Mind you I never had that experience in Texas as it was over 20 years ago and a lot the driving was done on somewhat less traveled roads vs the main freeways. 

 

Edited December 13, 2025 by Chuck FB

[KARNUT]

17 minutes ago, Chuck FB said:

 

I was so tempted to actually point that out as per a Texas driving theme but thought no, I better hold my tongue  

 

Mind you I never had that experience in Texas as it was over 20 years ago and a lot the driving was done on somewhat less traveled roads vs the main freeways. 

 

There’s a restaurant we frequent about twice a month. It’s just out of Conroe along the feeder road. To get back home there’s an on ramp to I-45. It’s very short. About 1/4 mile ahead there’s an off ramp to the next exit. So traffic is usually heavy in the lane to merge. I’m usually hitting 65 mph before the ramp ready to hammer down if I need to hit a gap. There’s always someone behind me. There’s been so many close calls if there’s someone in front of me I just stay on the feeder road. It’s pretty common in my travels. I don’t drive vehicles that don’t have good acceleration from 50-80 mph.

[Chuck FB]

1 hour ago, KARNUT said:

There’s a restaurant we frequent about twice a month. It’s just out of Conroe along the feeder road. To get back home there’s an on ramp to I-45. It’s very short. About 1/4 mile ahead there’s an off ramp to the next exit. So traffic is usually heavy in the lane to merge. I’m usually hitting 65 mph before the ramp ready to hammer down if I need to hit a gap. There’s always someone behind me. There’s been so many close calls if there’s someone in front of me I just stay on the feeder road. It’s pretty common in my travels. I don’t drive vehicles that don’t have good acceleration from 50-80 mph.

 

I can well imagine the absolute insanity of a freeway between two major cities and like you point out the design of the freeway on and off ramps you are making use of is like a game of Russian roulette trying to beat the odds. 

 

I had taken I 10 from New Orleans to Houston but then took the ring road around and possibly what turns into highway 59 but whatever highway that was was very sedate as I drove through the countryside on down towards Corpus Christi to Padre Island. The issue was going north through CC and it was dark by then and on up to San Antonio as that freeway was fairly busy. Once I turned west towards Del Rio on 90 I was back to the sparse traffic and it stayed that way all the way around to Alpine and down to Bend NP and along the Rio Grand and back up to Marfa and finally back to I 10 again. Probably why the traffic even on I 10 was not insane was possibly time of year as it was after New Years and some of it done late at night with less traffic in crossing the south side of New Mexico and the fact I was not going on and off of the highway. But just the fact that it was over 20 years ago, I have to wonder if that played a part, different vehicles on the road then and probably not the traffic count like it would be now. 

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On 12/12/2025 at 7:51 PM, Pryme said:

Doing 90 on the freeway onramp!!! Vin diesel filming fast and the furious: heavy duty! Coming to a theater near you. 
 

yeah I’d be trading that for sure. 

 

Lol, kilometers, not miles. It's a gentle curved onramp with a short acceleration lane, so you need to boot it to get up to the speed of traffic.