Who yields to who in Ca. when one is entering traffic on a freeway.?

Question

Does the entering vehicle yield to freeway or does the freeway vehicle yield to the entering one.

Answer 1

I'm glad to see the consensu of answers that the traffic Entering the freeway must yeild to the freeway traffic. Michigan has some helpful billboards that show a car trying to get on a freeway in front of a big truck. The caption says "Pick your spot and GO." The point is for a car getting on the freeway they have the responsibility to safely enter the flow of traffic, not that they must slow down at the end of the ramp and wait for the lane to be open.

Safe travels, all

Answer 2

The entering vehicle yields to the freeway vehicle.

Passage from DMV Handbook: "Enter the freeway at or near the speed of traffic. (Remember that the maximum speed allowed is 65 mph on most freeways.) Do not stop before merging with freeway traffic unless absolutely necessary. Freeway traffic has the right of way."

Answer 3

The entering vehicle yields to the person already on the freeway.

Answer 4

The vehicles on the freeway have the right of way. Thus, if you're entering the freeway, you yield.

Answer 5

Hell if I know. California is a ***** for driving on the freeway. It used to be the one on the freeway gets the right of way but now who knows. Just be careful, people drive like idiots now a days

Answer 6

In EVERY state its the freeway vehicles that have the right of way

Answer 7

The illegal immigrants crossing the road have to yield to the vehicles.

Answer 8

Nobody yields in CA, that's the problem. Whoever is going faster wins.