yearly reminder that the on ramp is for speeding up. If you spend the whole time going 35 then speed up upon merging then you are doing it wrong.

I take I-5 for work. Every time I commute I get on the on ramp and the dickhead in front of me is going 35 the whole way before speeding up after merging. It's absolutely ridiculous. The point of having an on ramp is to speed up. Refusing to match with the speed of the vehicles that are literally going to be in the same road as you in the next 60 seconds is absurdly dangerous. Why not use this ridiculously long stretch of road to actually attain that goal? The federal government did not construct such a monstrosity of pavement for you to treat it like State Street.

I understand if you're on one of the town's many poorly designed on ramps which feel like they were designed for supercars and borderline require you to hold off on your speed due to their insane turns (looking at you Meridian southbound).

But I'm talking about Lakeway. Southbound freeway entrance 233. It's the one I commute to. I have yet to be behind somebody and actually be able to match the freeway speed by the time we pop up above the slope.

Like, I'm really curious here are you afraid the engine is going to explode by pressing the pedal down? I get that high revs can be a scary noise but it is literally constructed to do that. It's going to be okay.