How not to merge? More like how to not allow someone to merge. If there is space on the left lane, go there and give him an empty space to merge into or just take your foot of the gas. It looks like you really didn't want to temporarily disable the cruise control here. You were overtaking him while he was still accelerating to adjust to the higher speeds on the highway. Sorry buddy, it certainly looks like the person in the white car wasn't paying attention, but you didn't allow him to merge either. I suspect you're from Belgium / Flanders so this is what I found: the white car needs to adjust to you and not the other way around, so technically you are in the right. But: "Om het invoegen vlotter te laten verlopen, mogen de bestuurders op de rechterrijstrook, vrijwillig naar links uitwijken, op voorwaarde dat ze daarbij zelf geen andere weggebruikers hinderen." It's called corteous driving ("hoffelijk rijgedrag"). Basically if you helped him out by also adjusting to him (decelerating / going to the left lane), there wouldn't have followed a dangerous situation. You have the law and you have the current situation. Just because the law says you are in the right to drive how you drive doesn't mean you have to.
You can clearly see that there are other cars overtaking me, so moving over was no option. It's obvious that I was overtaking him with enough speed difference for him to merge behind me, giving me no reason to lower my speed. But at the last moment he accelerates and suddenly decided to swerve in my lane, giving me no time to react in any other way. I never ride aggressively and always give people a chance to merge, but this guy wasn't paying attention and created this situation, not me. So the title of the video is very appropriate: It's a clear demonstration of how not to merge.
How not to merge? More like how to not allow someone to merge. If there is space on the left lane, go there and give him an empty space to merge into or just take your foot of the gas. It looks like you really didn't want to temporarily disable the cruise control here. You were overtaking him while he was still accelerating to adjust to the higher speeds on the highway. Sorry buddy, it certainly looks like the person in the white car wasn't paying attention, but you didn't allow him to merge either.
I suspect you're from Belgium / Flanders so this is what I found: the white car needs to adjust to you and not the other way around, so technically you are in the right. But: "Om het invoegen vlotter te laten verlopen, mogen de bestuurders op de rechterrijstrook, vrijwillig naar links uitwijken, op voorwaarde dat ze daarbij zelf geen andere weggebruikers hinderen." It's called corteous driving ("hoffelijk rijgedrag"). Basically if you helped him out by also adjusting to him (decelerating / going to the left lane), there wouldn't have followed a dangerous situation.
You have the law and you have the current situation. Just because the law says you are in the right to drive how you drive doesn't mean you have to.
You can clearly see that there are other cars overtaking me, so moving over was no option.
It's obvious that I was overtaking him with enough speed difference for him to merge behind me, giving me no reason to lower my speed. But at the last moment he accelerates and suddenly decided to swerve in my lane, giving me no time to react in any other way.
I never ride aggressively and always give people a chance to merge, but this guy wasn't paying attention and created this situation, not me.
So the title of the video is very appropriate: It's a clear demonstration of how not to merge.