Has it ever occurred to you that some drivers have got points on their licences and they don't want to get anymore! I don't make the rules i just try and abide by them, after all you don't make people speed up so its pointless.
2006-08-18 02:23:26 · 17 answers · asked by Petrol Head 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Hear, hear! I'd like a big pink neon sign in my back window which I could switch on when anyone gets too close to me. It would read, "Back off di*k breath!" Think they might get the message?
2006-08-18 02:29:42 · answer #1 · answered by Roxy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hey Bradd
I am o tailgater if i have suffered a few of them when i was driving normal speed, say speed limit was 80km/h i was doing 80! I nearly crashed my car once when someone not onlay tailgated me but also blinded me with full beams. So i can imagine how you feel because i've been there and it's not nice.
Indeed some tailgaters use the pretext that it makes you drive quicker but then a friend of mine made this suggestion to me ... Basically to hit the breaks, let them hit my car and after that ... Not only have them banned but also sue for whiplash and whatever. To be honest i haven't done it, don't think i evre would (Too scared) But maybe it would be a way to get them off the roads for a while. To say it makes others drive quicker is just a stupid assumption and not only that ... Illegal and dangerous too.
2006-08-18 02:32:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right. On occasions I have done the break-tapping thing or simply slowing down, that seems to really piss off tailgaters. In one occasion I let my tailgater push my car at low speed for about 2 or 3 km. Talk about road rage (both of us, I'm aware). My worst tailgating experience though, was driving from Toronto to Quebec at night during a snow storm in a tiny Ford Escort for about 15 minutes with a truck welded to my back bumper. I couldn't go faster because I was driving in my skill limit and I couldn't pull out of the tire marks because I couldn't control the car at that speed on the snow. Just had to hang in there.
But the fact is, as anyone who has ever watched a police chase video knows, at high speeds, the car being hit from behind is much more vulnerable, so if you are on the left track of a multilane road with no traffic ahead, just pull to the right and avoid the hassle.
2006-08-18 02:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by leblongeezer 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here,here, I detest tailgaters! What the f*ck do you think you are going to achieve by riding someone's a'se? Pick on the wrong person and they might just even haul you out of your car and give you a seeing to! I have actually conducted a personal experiment on this, and I have found that you get tailgated worse in an older car than in a new one, and it's nothing to do with the fact the old car is slow, far from it! I have a 52 reg car and hardly anyone bothers me in it, and I have a C reg car which I'm constantly finding some cretin with either a Focus or a Golf up my jaxie, what is it? I'll drive an old car if I want, its MOT'd and Taxed, I'm insured, I'm perfectly entitled to drive my old car on the road if I want to and I shouldn't be bullied by some fanny in a new car because they seem to think because their number plate says '06' on it they have more right to use the road than me in my 21 year old car, Where are the Traffic Cops when you need them? I got an answer for all those tailgaters out there, GET TO F*CK OFF MY AR5E!! Thank You!
2006-08-18 02:39:32 · answer #4 · answered by Alf Garnet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tailgating is one of the most dangerous activities a driver can do. Not only do they put their own safety at risk, but those of the vehicles in front. Keep a 2 second gap in good dry conditions. Four seconds in the wet. TWENTY seconds in ice or snow!!
2006-08-18 03:13:44 · answer #5 · answered by steve b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ya know i've often wondered why people do that. Stuipidty?
I can't think of any other reason why. It puts so many peoples lives in danger and then what? Say you don't die but a little kid does and how will that make you feel, or maybe you just don't care because it doesn't concern you or your own child.
Tailgaters are worse than drivers who exceed the limit. Cars should come equipped with defence mechanisms just for this.
Rant on!
2006-08-18 02:31:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once, in my first year of driving, I sped up because someone was tailgating me. I lost control of the car and sprained my knee.
Since then, I never EVER speed up for tailgaters.
I wish all the tailgaters out there would get the message that tailgating is dangerous and stupid!
2006-08-18 02:30:33 · answer #7 · answered by Victoria 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All I can say about tailgaters is that I've always driven junkers and I believe in using the parking brake when a tailgater is on my butt (no brake lights.)
It's particularly funny when it's an $80,000 Benz or whatever doing the tailgating.
2006-08-18 02:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's right.....**** all you tailgaiting homo's who are so ******* poor that they have to tailgate me to save gas on their little honda's.
Whenever anyone tailgates me, I don't speed up, and I never will. I will pull my car over to the side of the road, get out by myself, and beat the living **** out of all of you ******* as hugging tailgaiters who listen to mob deep and fagget **** like Swithfoot.
**** with me,,,,thank you.
2006-08-18 02:32:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. I think most tailgaters are just impatient and/or poor drivers.
2006-08-18 02:30:06 · answer #10 · answered by Adios 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's best to swicth on your fog lights - they are bright like brake lights
2006-08-18 05:52:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋