Tailgaters
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Pop quiz hot shot. You're driving down the highway going 80 miles an hour (please multiply by 1.6 for kms) (hey everybody's doing it :) ) and you look in the rear view mirror to see somebody's tailgating you. Now that's dangerous. :-D How do you get rid of them without slowing down/slamming on the breaks or switching lanes? Answer: Turn on the windshield washer and spray their car as well. Seems to force people to move back. :laugh:
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I just let them by. I used to play games like tapping the brakes or slowing down next to another vehicle. After a few drivers decided to repay that favor by puling past me and slamming on the brakes in front of me repeatedly, throwing cups of ice out the window in front of me, etc. It's just not worth the risk, and for all I know he might be the one guy in 500,000 rushing someone to the hospital.
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Pop quiz hot shot. You're driving down the highway going 80 miles an hour (please multiply by 1.6 for kms) (hey everybody's doing it :) ) and you look in the rear view mirror to see somebody's tailgating you. Now that's dangerous. :-D How do you get rid of them without slowing down/slamming on the breaks or switching lanes? Answer: Turn on the windshield washer and spray their car as well. Seems to force people to move back. :laugh:
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
Keep a small bag of steel ball bearings in the glove box. Empty the bag out the window whenever anyone behind is annoying.
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I move away, and let them go on with their death race. I know, I'm a wimp, but I don't care.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
Maximilien wrote:
I move away, and let them go on with their death race.
I agree with that. If they want to be the first one to the accident, let them.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Well, see, that's why you do best not to piss off the drivers in front of you. Another fun one, for busy roads with intermittent passing lanes: after twenty miles at 40Mph, with someone riding your bumper trying to get you to pass the three semis in front of you, you get to an area with a passing lane. Immediately gun past the semis, out to the end of the passing lane, right up until visibility drops off... and then slow back down to 40Mph, just as the jerk catches back up with you. Flash him a friendly smile, as if to say, "you like passing blind? Go for it!"
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Please tell me you don't do stuff like that...
- Anders My new photo website[^]
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Please tell me you don't do stuff like that...
- Anders My new photo website[^]
It pretty much depends on how long i've been driving at that point. That said, i'm usually fairly considerate of drivers who are willing to signal their intentions. Give me a little bit of room to slow down and pull over, and i'll happily do so. Which reminds me of driving down in Texas. Lots of rural roads without much for visibility, but come up on a slower driver and almost always they'd pull off into the shoulder and wave us by. Really made a difference.
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It pretty much depends on how long i've been driving at that point. That said, i'm usually fairly considerate of drivers who are willing to signal their intentions. Give me a little bit of room to slow down and pull over, and i'll happily do so. Which reminds me of driving down in Texas. Lots of rural roads without much for visibility, but come up on a slower driver and almost always they'd pull off into the shoulder and wave us by. Really made a difference.
Okay, glad to hear that. Ihate those self-appointed police-guys that think they have any rights to dictate how fast I can drive ;)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
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Okay, glad to hear that. Ihate those self-appointed police-guys that think they have any rights to dictate how fast I can drive ;)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
Anders Molin wrote:
Ihate those self-appointed police-guys that think they have any rights to dictate how fast I can drive ;)
Heh. I have a wife who dictates how slow i'm allowed to drive. "The speed limit is 75, why are you driving at anything less than 80?!" Then again, she's completely insane behind the wheel. Half of her family are bikers and racers, there's gotta be something genetic about it. :rolleyes:
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Anders Molin wrote:
Ihate those self-appointed police-guys that think they have any rights to dictate how fast I can drive ;)
Heh. I have a wife who dictates how slow i'm allowed to drive. "The speed limit is 75, why are you driving at anything less than 80?!" Then again, she's completely insane behind the wheel. Half of her family are bikers and racers, there's gotta be something genetic about it. :rolleyes:
LOL I used to ride motorcycles too, and have a lot to do with motorsport ;)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
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Not if you know how to drive ;P Besides the Shogun's the kind of vehicle you can make go in a straight line regardless, we have failed to turn it around in our farm yard with all the diffs locked :~
I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.
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Time for my favorite tailgating story. I was driving down the Pasadena freeway near Eagle Rock going the speed limit. I happened to still be in the left lane because of how various freeways merge leading to there [Note to those who haven't been there--the freeway is 3, maybe 4, lanes wide at that point.] There was only one other car within a quarter mile--a pickup truck--and he came up behind me about as close as you could get. I tapped my brakes just enough to put on the lights. He slammed on his. He then came up behind me again. This time I gently applied my brakes and started slowing. When I hit about 50 he swerved into the next lane, honked his horn, flipped me the bird and sped off. A mile later, I saw him pulled over by a California Highway Patrolman.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
A mile later, I saw him pulled over by a California Highway Patrolman.
Yep. Sweeeet justice :laugh: I see that on the mountain all the time. The CHP up here love getting people going 10mph over the limit.
Some people have a memory and an attention span, you should try them out one day. - Jeremy Falcon
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Switch lanes, that's why you're being tail gated... No matter how fast you think you're going, someone will always want to go faster. Drive on the right, pass on the left. Simple. If you're being tail gated in the right lane, that's a different story. Slam on the breaks!!
zoid ! wrote:
If you're being tail gated in the right lane, that's a different story. Slam on the breaks!!
Right, but if you don't have an automatic car, then you can reduce and it is even more impressive on their side because you get your speed rapidly reduced without even showing the red lights on the brake. grrrrr...
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Pop quiz hot shot. You're driving down the highway going 80 miles an hour (please multiply by 1.6 for kms) (hey everybody's doing it :) ) and you look in the rear view mirror to see somebody's tailgating you. Now that's dangerous. :-D How do you get rid of them without slowing down/slamming on the breaks or switching lanes? Answer: Turn on the windshield washer and spray their car as well. Seems to force people to move back. :laugh:
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM