How do you react when drivers tailgate you?
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I start with a friendly break check. If that does not work I either
A) take my foot off the gas and we see just how slow they like it (ive gone down to almost 20 in a 65.....) or
I begin to slightly swerve as though I am suddenly drunk0 -
Interesting with all of the brake checking...that can now get you a pretty hefty fine where I'm at and they consider it reckless driving...a cop sees you doing that he will pull you and the tailgater over and both drivers will be charged with reckless driving.
We've had a lot of problems with road rage, guns being pulled, and sometimes people getting shot...the latest incident was over a lane dispute and a 4 year old girl was shot in the head and killed...law enforcement is finally starting to take all of this douche behavior very seriously on both sides of that equation.0 -
I couldn't care less. They don't bother me. I'm usually the tailgater because I'm stuck behind some clown going 10 miles under the speed limit. If they speed up to the speed limit I back off. If they brake-check me I'll close the gap. I know that will offend some. Sorry.
I ride a motorcycle and if I get a tailgater on that I'll just pull over and let them by. No problem.0 -
yeah…amazing that most don't just move over.. even if you speed that person might want to go faster then you, who are you to be the speed police. Why not just move over?
WANZLK: I'm always stuck behind a left lane dick too who feels the need to dictate my speed on the highways. What I usually do is pass them then swerve into their lane and break as I'm passing them, that usually makes them move over as other cars do the same thing after and it finally clicks "maybe I'm not going fast enough".
Sorry get the F out of the fast lane aholes!
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OMG all these replies with guns pulled on you!!!!.......thank f$&k I live in Australia and the gun happy mentality isn't something we have!0
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yeah…amazing that most don't just move over.. even if you speed that person might want to go faster then you, who are you to be the speed police. Why not just move over?
WANZLK: I'm always stuck behind a left lane dick too who feels the need to dictate my speed on the highways. What I usually do is pass them then swerve into their lane and break as I'm passing them, that usually makes them move over as other cars do the same thing after and it finally clicks "maybe I'm not going fast enough".
Sorry get the F out of the fast lane aholes!
AMEN!!!0 -
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summerkissed wrote: »OMG all these replies with guns pulled on you!!!!.......thank f$&k I live in Australia and the gun happy mentality isn't something we have!
True that, but do consider... here in Tenn area I'm in most people have guns, permits or not. Most of us are crazy, the ones who aren't know this. Therefore we have virtually no road rage incidents (always visiting out of towners) I cannot remember the last time someone rode my bumper. (in reality we pull over just to see if they want some)
When i was a teenager I did heave a DR Pepper bottle thru a guys windshield who was dogging me on purpose. Yes I went to jail. yes I worked to pay for a windshield. And yes you couldn't pay that guy $100 bill to come anywhere near me.... to this date.. OK moral is this- in a world full of nuts, just become one with the universe... go nuts!!!
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I couldn't care less. They don't bother me. I'm usually the tailgater because I'm stuck behind some clown going 10 miles under the speed limit. If they speed up to the speed limit I back off. If they brake-check me I'll close the gap. I know that will offend some. .
Same here. In Louisiana, apparently no one understands that the left lane = fast lane or passing. They think it means go 45 in a 65, or ride right alongside the person in the right lane. Seriously worst drivers in the world right here.0 -
If they're going faster than I am and I'm in the left lane and can do it, I'll change lanes and let them go past. Otherwise, I'll flash my brake lights to try to get them to back off a bit. Sometimes people just aren't paying attention to how closely they're following and that's usually all it takes.
Now, if they're really being a horse's *kitten* and honking the horn, flashing lights and all of that I get out of their way however I can - and wait to drive by the inevitable accident with them involved some distance up the road.0 -
I used to be like many of you until recently. I was rushing to my dying mother's bedside and some "idiot" in a truck was trying to get by me. I'm going a good 30 mph over the limit. He finally pulled out and passed me and sped down the road and turned right a few blocks up.
By the time I got to where he turned he was already at the bottom of the hill, pulling into the hospital emergency parking lot.
Years ago, my sister was being rushed to Emergency after her appendix burst. Our father was speeding, honking the horn and flashing the lights.....to no avail. No one allowed him to get by.
I now try VERY hard to not judge - - just in case. Panic and fear can make the best drivers reckless.
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I just don't look in the mirrors again if someone is tailgating. It's hard enough to control my own speeding car. I can't control theirs too. They can do whatever they want back there. I'll just focus on what's in front of me.0
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Panda_brat wrote: »
Lol! I like it, I like alllottt0 -
I drive real slow on purpose to pee them off !0
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never happens.
otherwise spit0 -
rarely happens with my radar detector
and how fast I drive.
but...there are a lot of crazed unhinged drivers out there...it takes only a second
for a bad situation to turn really awful.
and it can't be reversed. you will hopefully never see this nut again.
breathe deeply and move on.0 -
Give the the middle finger0
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Well I drive a smartcar so when people tailgate me it literally feels like they're in the nonexistent back seat of my car0
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yourhiddengem wrote: »Well I drive a smartcar so when people tailgate me it literally feels like they're in the nonexistent back seat of my car
This made me lol I know what you mean0 -
robs_ready wrote: »yourhiddengem wrote: »Well I drive a smartcar so when people tailgate me it literally feels like they're in the nonexistent back seat of my car
This made me lol I know what you mean
Lol
It's so annoying tho. I love my car but it's annoying.0
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