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I Hate Drivers That Tailgate
Pure and simple – I hate people that tailgate me when I’m driving. There are certainly some creative ways of dealing with them … what are some of yours?
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Dealing With Tailgating Drivers by VnutZ
I have a couple of favorites:
My personal favorite by Anonymous
This requires some practice and a good feel for the car you are driving (especially if using a rental car). I gently put my left foot on the brakes up to the point where the brake lights turn on, while at the same time, push harder on the gas to accelerate. The car behind you thinks you are going to brake and falls far behind. If I get a stubborn person I slip into a lower gear and pull the emergency brake slowly so I start slowing down without my brake lights. Then the person behind you doesn’t know what the heck is going on…
Pretty simple.. by ldsudduth
I have three methods.
A: used when ferrying passengers or pets—-slow down to well below the posted speed limit. They will either pass you in frustration, or back off.
B: used when alone—-tap brake and slow about 5mph. usually they will back off. if that fails to move them after a couple of attempts, brake hard and fast. I got hit once that way and simply explained away that a squirrel had run into the road and I braked to avoid it. Rear-end collisions are almost always the fault of the driver behind you anyway..besides..PA is a no-fault state.
Baiting Them Into Speedtraps by VnutZ
There’s another one I forgot about. Basically, I play into the tail gating driver’s urge to go faster than me. First I slow down a bit to get them good, mad and riding the Jeep’s back end harder. Then I slowly start speeding up … enough so that in all actuality they really don’t need to be all that concerned with me “being in the way” anymore. When I near speedtraps I know about, I go ahead and pull out of their way whereupon they floor it and speed past me and the cops nail them! bwa-hahahaha
Having a police scanner and speedtrap app on the iPhone helps ensure somebody’s going to be radar gunning people there.
Almost Got Another One Today by VnutZ
Today I was being tailgated by a pick-up truck. I actually saw a police car cruising in the right lane so I “right-aligned” myself to the center line to make sure the guy following me couldn’t see him. Sadly, despite the guy being within five feet of my bumper, the cop did nothing when we passed him.
So I tried again at another known speed trap on the road. The guy moved over into the right lane to pass me so I slowly started eeking my speed up until I was going 25 over the speed limit. When he finally passed me, he was easily going 30 over the limit right before the random signpost drops the speedlimit from 55 to 45 (meaning he’s nearly double the limit) when I drop back and let him roar by the speed trap. They didn’t take him either! Crazy.
Tailgater icing by Anonymous
Usually the icing on the cake is when you leave a nice space between you and the guy ahead and the tailgater behind you 9000rpms it and squeezes into the space you left. Dick.
What the insurance companies need to do is to have a textable hotline where you report asshat drivers. This way when the person eventually has an accident and the insurance company sees 100’s of examples of the guy being a dick they either drop him or jack his rates. I suspect that a very tiny number of drivers would end up with most of the reports.