How to get on a Freeway

I'm always amazed at how people drive. It seems that most people think that when you get onto a freeway where cars are traveling at 60 or more miles-per-hour, that you should enter the freeway at 30 miles-per-hour--and then drive for half a mile before finally pushing down the gas pedal and jumping to 70 MPH.

Doesn't it make more sense to get onto the freeway at nearly the same speed that traffic is flowing? Then all the other cars don't have to hit their brakes because the car that pulled into the lane is going half the speed of traffic.

The only time that this seems to backfire, is when one of those semi trucks pulling the second trailer comes up when you are trying to merge. You can run out of lane before those two trailers go by.