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Used to be against tailgating but damn if its hard to make a left turn when youve got 10 cars evenly spaced apart driving down the road... plus many people deserve to be tailgated if they are going below the speed limit. Simply NO excuse to be going 30 in a 35 in typical driving conditions in good weather. Nobody is any safer and you get lower gas mileage. I do see many 4 wheel drive trucks fly down the interstate after snows thinking they are invincible and its usually trucks you see stuck in the snow off the median but thats bad weather.
If tailgated by someone Ive trained mysel to ignore them. They are not doing any harm and if they hit you the insurance will show them at fault. Ignoring a tailgater is easy... ignoring someone doing 5 under the limit.. not so much. I go 5 over, always will, and no amount of tailgating by 'speed demons' or being held up by 'slow pokes' will change my mind. Never gotten a speeding ticket in my life going 5 over.. not one.
I think some tailgaters actually don't know they're doing it. I have a friend who is a horrible tailgater. She isn't aggressive in the least. She's just a really bad driver and doesn't know she's tailgating. I can't stand being a passenger when she's driving.
I think some tailgaters actually don't know they're doing it. I have a friend who is a horrible tailgater. She isn't aggressive in the least. She's just a really bad driver and doesn't know she's tailgating. I can't stand being a passenger when she's driving.
She never has any curiosity as to why she's so close to the car in front of her? Is she ...uh ...special?
I've seen a few mentions to tailgaters in the last few days, and peoples strategies with dealing with them. However I haven't seen anyone else saying they use my method - so I'm curious to if it works in other countries as well as it does here.
I find that my front window gets exceedingly dirty when someone is right behind me, and find that I have to keep washing it for sometimes several minutes to clear my view. This has the unfortunate consequence of the excess water getting pushed off my window and into the air flowing past my car - at which point it is caught in the drag behind my vehicle and tends to make the car behind me's window wet - if they are close.
It seems that 90% of cars will back off when water starts splattering all over their window, and repeated applications dont show any reduction in effect. Say someone starts tailgating you, you wash you your window and they back off, a couple of minutes later they come back and you wash again, they back off again.
Obviously, it doesn't work in wet climates at all, as nobody would notice.
Same as following a semi-truck load of cattle or hogs. When it starts misting;then back off.
She never has any curiosity as to why she's so close to the car in front of her? Is she ...uh ...special?
No just a bad driver, like my boss. Tailgates, speeds, when he's not goofing off on his phone he looks only at the car in front of him, doesn't look ahead to see what's going on. Constantly speeding up and slowing down, comes to a stop at intersections when the light is green, yells at people for doing stuff that he does to others. I have told him a number of times he better have good insurance cause if he wrecks with me in the car I'm gonna sue his ass off. Luckily I wasn't, he made a left turn on green (not arrow) and got creamed by a Suburban.
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