How HGVs deal with this short slip road
Discussion
This is a motorway west of Pforzheim (which is a hour or so west of Stuttgart) and has no speed limit.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1WtApUD20...
The westbound slip road is on a fairly steep upwards incline and seems very short. On entering the motorway here I noticed that an HGV had pre-emptively moved into lane 2 to allow me space, although I (in a car) was prepared to accelerate or brake sharply if needed.
It seems to me that this slip road is dangerously short and I guess that vehicles already on the motorway in lane 1 would worry about insufficiently alert drivers entering the motorway and panicking at the end of the slip road. Would you instinctively move to lane 2 in this scenario?
(Sorry I don't know how to make the google maps link automatically show the aerial photo without clicking the button at the bottom left)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1WtApUD20...
The westbound slip road is on a fairly steep upwards incline and seems very short. On entering the motorway here I noticed that an HGV had pre-emptively moved into lane 2 to allow me space, although I (in a car) was prepared to accelerate or brake sharply if needed.
It seems to me that this slip road is dangerously short and I guess that vehicles already on the motorway in lane 1 would worry about insufficiently alert drivers entering the motorway and panicking at the end of the slip road. Would you instinctively move to lane 2 in this scenario?
(Sorry I don't know how to make the google maps link automatically show the aerial photo without clicking the button at the bottom left)
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