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Hurkyl said:I would like to point out that if I'm "blocking" you in the left lane, that either means I am in the process of passing a group of cars, or I have been pinned into the left lane (e.g. by someone speeding up as I was passing). In the latter case, tailgating would be counter-productive ...
Kurdt said:I drive a McLaren Mercedes SLR which has carbon ceramic disk brakes and can stop in half the recommended distance. Thats why I tail gate.
I do tail gate but I have this thing where I have to be as close as possible to the car in front. Even when the traffic has stopped I only leave a couple of inches between cars. I don't know why, just one of the many weird compulsions i have.
Cyrus said:Im always packing when I drive baby. I need a special permit to carry around that concealed weapon.
Integral said:Jerk.
Sorry
Greg Freeman said:it's the person yabbering away on the cellphone or falling asleep or just plain not paying attention that cause me problems.
There's a recipe for you. Pick the worst drivers on the road, and put yourself in danger of hitting them. This is Darwin Award material at its best.Greg Freeman said:The use of tailgating is to get the slow drivers out of the fast (left) lane of traffic.
P4PPY said:I once did a small psych test on the cause of tailgating. The results were interesting.
It seemed that drivers would gauge their speeds based on the car in front of them subconsciously. Instead of looking at their speedometer, they would just follow the car in front of them and their vision would judge the speed. This happened more and more at faster speeds and longer durations of travel time.
The reason behind the tailgating was when the car in front of them would slow down or speed up gradually. The mind would not calculate in the safest distance as the speeds increased. It would only tell your mind to accelerate or decelerate depending on the speed of the car in front… not the distance.
Brake lights were the only thing that would “wake” the mind up.
If you really want to mess with someone though… use your E-Brake to slow down. Your brake lights don’t come on… and the vehicle will slow down at a faster rate than normal. (Just don’t lock the rear tires up). The car behind you (if in a state of subconscious driving) will bump into your tailgate without even knowing what happened.
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ShawnD said:I notice this a lot. I drive a standard, and most of my deceleration is from engine braking because I'm trying to save money on future brake repair, and I'm trying to save gas (you burn less gas if you gradually slow down and never need to come to a complete stop at intersections, opposite of truck owners who race toward red lights).
While engine braking, people tailgate like crazy. They have absolutely no clue how fast they're going, how fast I'm going, what a good distance is, or even that there is a red light ahead of them. I drive a small car, too, so it's not like they're physically incapable of seeing what's up ahead; they're just retards.
What's interesting is that you can also tell who's a retard by looking at brake lights. Today on the way to work, there was a small car to my left, followed by a guy in a truck. The small car gets up to the standard ~68km/h (8 over the speed limit), and the guy in the truck is tailgating him. I'm going a bit slower than that, so I'm getting a back view of this, and I see the truck guy is applying his brakes every few seconds. Closer, tailgating, braking, closer, braking.
My brother does this too. I once let him drive my car on the highway, and he kept using his brakes to slow down. He would get a big gap, accelerate hard, brake, big gap, accelerate, brake. If your friend starts complaining that he needs to fix his brakes every 10k miles, it's probably because he sucks at driving, and it has nothing to do with the mechanical integrity of the car.
lisab said:What makes me crazy is when I'm on a two-lane highway and I'm following the car ahead of me at a reasonable distance, going the same speed. That car ahead of me is doing the same, as is the car ahead of him, and so on, and so on.
Car after car after car, all moving along at the same speed on a winding, two-lane road.
Why, why does the guy in back of me ride my bumper?