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You know, it really isn't complicated. Don't be a pr**k who tailgates, don't zoom around people, and just drive safely. People make it so much more complicated than it needs to be, it isn't difficult. As for defensive driving, if someone is *really* gunning for me and riding my bumper then I will check to make sure I'm not driving too slowly but otherwise maintain my speed if I'm doing nothing wrong. I don't reinforce aggressive driving or traffic bullying.
Apart from that I will simply move over and let the person pass for the sanity of myself and everyone.
I, too, use the brake lights, eye contact via my rear-view (windshield-mounted) mirror, and slow down to the speed limit, if I am already 10 or so MPH over. Some people do not belong on the road.
Yes that´s totally right. Drivers who force other drivers to slow down are endangering traffic, even if the driver behind you is tailgating. Drive according to conditions and make way for faster traffic and you won´t have problems with tailgaters.
You know, it really isn't complicated. Don't be a pr**k who tailgates, don't zoom around people, and just drive safely. People make it so much more complicated than it needs to be, it isn't difficult. As for defensive driving, if someone is *really* gunning for me and riding my bumper then I will check to make sure I'm not driving too slowly but otherwise maintain my speed if I'm doing nothing wrong. I don't reinforce aggressive driving or traffic bullying.
Apart from that I will simply move over and let the person pass for the sanity of myself and everyone.
That's exactly how I feel.I am a safe,defensive driver who does not text,read or put make up on while driving.If once in while,I talk via the car bluetooth,my teen lectures me on how it is worse than drunk driving to talk to someone who's not in the car.Jeez..eyeroll!!
Yes that´s totally right. Drivers who force other drivers to slow down are endangering traffic, even if the driver behind you is tailgating. Drive according to conditions and make way for faster traffic and you won´t have problems with tailgaters.
If only that were true. Tailgating happens in the right lane also.
You all scare me. The only one I'd let drive me is Sayantsi - follow his advice!
Lol, I love that. I once saw a comedian who used one of those LED message things as a prop (the ones that are basically long black panels with red lights that scroll a message across it) and one of the jokes was that he'd have it mounted in his back window and write messages to cars behind him telling them to back off.
They never bother me. It reminds me of that quote from that old movie "The Gumball Rally". At the start of the race, one guy rips off his review mirror, tosses it out the window, and says to his co-driver: "And now my friend, the first rule of Italian driving: What's behind me is not important."
It's the idiots in front of me that drive me up the wall.
Drivers who often complain about tailgaters should rethink their driving. THEY are making a mistake, not the driver behind them. Provoking the other driver by slowing down is reckless and irresponsible. People have to understand that especially on highways passing should be done quickly and that speeds should be choosed depending on conditions, not the speed limit. Otherwise a crash will happen soon.
Drivers who often complain about tailgaters should rethink their driving. THEY are making a mistake, not the driver behind them. Provoking the other driver by slowing down is reckless and irresponsible. People have to understand that especially on highways passing should be done quickly and that speeds should be choosed depending on conditions, not the speed limit. Otherwise a crash will happen soon.
Now you are just being ridiculous...
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