After ~7 years of tailgating...

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Trikat
Screw all you tailgating haters. Who you should hate is the people who drive so freaking slow in the "fast lane."
If the OP tailgates people in the fast lane good job, because I do the same.
Slow people in the fast lane suck.

:thumbsup:

It's one thing if someone is tailgating in heavy traffic or if the person is going at or above the speed limit. There's no excuse or reason to tailgate then. But if the person in front of you has wide open road and there's no one in the center/right lane they should move over (unless turning soon of course).

I live in FL and if it's not some greyhair with over-the-top sunglasses it's some moron on their cell phone. They drive under the speed limit in the passing lane, drift lanes, ride their brakes for no reason, don't use signals, sit at green lights until honked at, etc, etc, etc... Some people are just too old to drive and others can't carry on a conversation and pay attention to the road at the same time.

Hey a Robor sighting

How do you like the guy that says he tapped on his brakes yet at same time says that is not the reason guy behind "slammed" into him???

I oughta be able to tap my breaks without some asshat talegater crashing into the back of me... Tapping breaks isnt a reason for an accident... tailgating is. If you tailgate someone so closely that you cant stop if they do, then you are breaking the law and are completely at fault for the accident that follows.

-Max

Try reading the thread.

The guy claimed that he just tapped on his brakes and that didn't cause the guy to ram into him.

He did a whole lot more than just "tap" them.

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Trikat
Screw all you tailgating haters. Who you should hate is the people who drive so freaking slow in the "fast lane."
If the OP tailgates people in the fast lane good job, because I do the same.
Slow people in the fast lane suck.

:thumbsup:

It's one thing if someone is tailgating in heavy traffic or if the person is going at or above the speed limit. There's no excuse or reason to tailgate then. But if the person in front of you has wide open road and there's no one in the center/right lane they should move over (unless turning soon of course).

I live in FL and if it's not some greyhair with over-the-top sunglasses it's some moron on their cell phone. They drive under the speed limit in the passing lane, drift lanes, ride their brakes for no reason, don't use signals, sit at green lights until honked at, etc, etc, etc... Some people are just too old to drive and others can't carry on a conversation and pay attention to the road at the same time.

Hey a Robor sighting

How do you like the guy that says he tapped on his brakes yet at same time says that is not the reason guy behind "slammed" into him???

I oughta be able to tap my breaks without some asshat talegater crashing into the back of me... Tapping breaks isnt a reason for an accident... tailgating is. If you tailgate someone so closely that you cant stop if they do, then you are breaking the law and are completely at fault for the accident that follows.

-Max

Try reading the thread.

The guy claimed that he just tapped on his brakes and that didn't cause the guy to ram into him.

He did a whole lot more than just "tap" them.

Did you see how long this thread is? There is no way in hell I'm gonna search the whole thing for this so-called "tapping" incident...

How bout a quick summary?

 

[GamingDaemon]

Hmmm....I think it is utterly ridiculous to think that someone is in the right to go slow (read: speed limit or less) in the left lane. The speed limit is hardly enforced, and only when the police needs money at the end of the month. They themselves almost always disregard the speed limit when they are just cruising along and not in pursuit of a real ciminal.

Personally, I hate it when someone in the left lane thinks they can control my life by going slow. I don't mind so much in highways and expressways where I can easily pass them on the right. But when they sit there in the left lane right next to someone in the right lane making it impossible to pass them, then I will absolutelty tailgate them. And everyone would agree that they deserve it too!

Whew I feel better now...

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: GamingDaemon

Hmmm....I think it is utterly ridiculous to think that someone is in the right to go slow (read: speed limit or less) in the left lane. The speed limit is hardly enforced, and only when the police needs money at the end of the month. They themselves almost always disregard the speed limit when they are just cruising along and not in pursuit of a real ciminal.

Personally, I hate it when someone in the left lane thinks they can control my life by going slow. I don't mind so much in highways and expressways where I can easily pass them on the right. But when they sit there in the left lane right next to someone in the right lane making it impossible to pass them, then I will absolutelty tailgate them. And everyone would agree that they deserve it too!

Whew I feel better now...

You people are idiots... tailgating isn't a behavior modification technique... it's at best equally idiotic as driving slow in the fast lane, and at worse, reckless and dangerous.

 

[NaOH]

What is worse? I am going 80 in a 65 mph zone and the asshat behind me is tailgating me. Happens in more than one occasion too. Those people deserve to flip over and burn.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: Doboji
I oughta be able to tap my breaks without some asshat talegater crashing into the back of me... Tapping breaks isnt a reason for an accident... tailgating is. If you tailgate someone so closely that you cant stop if they do, then you are breaking the law and are completely at fault for the accident that follows.

-Max

Yep. That's exactly the way it works. The people who realize this are far in the majority, as this thread shows. The rest are immature road-rageaholics.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: aircooled
I brake for Tailgaters

haha...

Do you brake hard and fast?

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: Doboji
You people are idiots... tailgating isn't a behavior modification technique...

That's a perfect way of putting it. The few tailgaters here are acting like they're doing a public service by endangering everyone who drives the highways. This in face of multiple reports of crashes being caused by people doing exactly the same thing... two people here report being on the tailgater end of things and causing crashes.

I saw someone wreck a very nice WRX STi on Route 3 in New Hampshire pretty recently, in the last year anyway. Guess what? He was tailgating AND wearing headphones for some reason. He looked nonplussed as we drove past him, standing by the wreck he'd caused. (We barely missed seeing the actual accident, but saw him riding the ass of someone in the left lane a few minutes prior. The front end of his car was all smashed up.)

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: GamingDaemon
They themselves almost always disregard the speed limit when they are just cruising along and not in pursuit of a real ciminal.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the police are required to drive under the speed limit at all. At least I believe that's true in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: glugglug

Originally posted by: 6000SUX
If this were an actual law, you'd have constant lane changes, making driving much more hazardous.

It IS an actual law in many states.

Guess what else isn't a law? On the great bulk of highway miles in the United States, there is no minimum speed limit for any lane, either.

I don't know of any state that DOESN'T have a MINIMUM highway speed of 40mph (unless otherwise posted). But for practical use, the "speed limit" is more of a minimum.

Okay, I stand corrected, especially as multiple people chimed in about Ohio and California. It's different when there's an actual lane reserved for passing, though-- that is not dangerous. It would be dangerous for people to constantly be getting as far to the right as possible on a multi-lane highway AND constantly trying to pass each other.

I'll assume you know what you're talking about on the second issue, too. Even 40MPH is pretty slow to be driving on the highway.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674


Try reading the thread.

The guy claimed that he just tapped on his brakes and that didn't cause the guy to ram into him.

He did a whole lot more than just "tap" them.

You're manufacturing that. Tailgating causes accidents. Check out the reports from ex-tailgaters of the accidents they caused. Go read some accident statistics. Then come back here and spew some more idiotic tripe.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I just find it ironic how in this thread, too many people think that you make the roads safer by purposely causing "accidents"...

I agree, as long as you're talking about tailgaters.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: aircooled
I brake for Tailgaters

REALLY HARD!

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: Nick5324

Originally posted by: sniperruff
i wish you were given more tickets.

:thumbsup:

 

[ajtyeh]

tailgating is for noobs

 

[Danadcorps]

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Googer
I hope your insurance sky rockets next time you need to renew it.

I hope your first born has a tail.

i wish i had a tail...

**thats what a pentuple post?? copy + paste 6000

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Danadcorps

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Googer
I hope your insurance sky rockets next time you need to renew it.

I hope your first born has a tail.

i wish i had a tail...

If I had a tail and you were tailgating, I would slam on my brakes so you rear end me then I would take my tail and slap you in the face with it. Then I sue you for bodily damages and take away every thing you own.

 

[Danadcorps]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Danadcorps

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Googer
I hope your insurance sky rockets next time you need to renew it.

I hope your first born has a tail.

i wish i had a tail...

If I had a tail and you were tailgating, I would slam on my brakes so you rear end me then I would take my tail and slap you in the face with it. Then I sue you for bodily damages and take away every thing you own.

?!?!?! was there any need for that hostility? i just want a tail. Like an actual prehensile tail that i could do stuff with

 

[Googer]

Then one day stem cell research may come to your rescue.

 

[raptorsoft2000]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
i wish you were given more tickets.

 

[QueHuong]

Originally posted by: 6000SUX

Originally posted by: ElMonoDelMar

Originally posted by: 6000SUX

Originally posted by: ElMonoDelMar
Or other times it's because you want to take the law into your own hands and cause an accident.

You can argue with me, but people who know the law better than both of us agree with me. The tailgater's BMW was wrecked, my car was wrecked, and he paid the price. I'm satisfied. You're not, but that doesn't bother me a bit.

We could argue all day long whether or not what you did was legal. Who cares? You put other people's lives in danger just so you could teach someone a lesson.

That's what you are failing to understand; I didn't. The tailgater did, and then slipped up even more. All I did was slow down-- and not too quickly. One of the witnesses said he HIT THE GAS in response.

I hate tailgaters, and I handle them by letting my feet off the gas. I never tap on my breaks, because the idiot behind me might swerve and hit someone in his blindspot or otherwise break so hard that the car behind him hits him.


You not only tapped your breaks, but made it sound like you intentionally did it hard enough to cause an accident. Your original post:

"Five years ago I was driving an older Mercury Sable that I was planning to sell anyway. I wasn't having the greatest day to start with, and was tailgated by a dumbass like the OP. I hit the brake, he couldn't 'respond fast enough, and he totalled my car and his. Pretty nice insurance settlement."


Your own words tell me that your braking was both premeditated ("hey, I'm was going to sell it anyway, so might as well wreck it and get some insurance money") and made out of malice ("I was having a bad day, so I'm gonna take it out on someone else").

Futhermore, you were going at 65 or 75 IN THE MIDDLE LANE. 65 or 75 mph is already pretty fast. Since most people drive in the middle lane, your premeditated and malicious attempt at teaching someone else a lesson endangered not only the cars in the middle lane, but you also spread the risk to cars in the left and right lanes. Pretty fvcking stupid of you.

I'm not contesting the legality of your idiotic actions; the law is clear on who's at fault when you're hit from behind. But like the others have said of you, you are a vigilante. Driving at 65-75, in the middle lane, and braking hard...that's just dangerous. YOU are the one who needs to learn a lesson for being a self-righteous vigilante.

You are clearly the most dangerous in this thread so far, so better be thanking god that you didn't cause any fatalities. Next time when you're having a bad day and encounter a tailgater, simply let your feet off the gas and he'll pass around you, while giving time for others around both of you to react. Don't try to teach him a lesson, and risk the lives of those driving around you, fvcking maniac.



As for the idiot OP, equally idiot drivers like 6000sux could be the person you're tailgating. Hotheads like you on the road can ruin lives.


Damn idiots.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Axoliien

Originally posted by: edro
Just to clarify a bit (not that I don't love the flames), but I only tailgate people in the left lane when the right lane is open and they are driving the speed limit or less.

So you have the ability to drive safely and responsibly, but you decide not to? You want everyone to break the law as well because following the law is apparently too much for you? You didn't exactly help your argument there.

Yup, the true def of a tool.

People should not drive the speed limit in the left hand lane, when faster traffic is approaching. End of story.

 

[PSUPef2k]

here is a novel idea...

If you are going to drive the speed limit, or 5-10 below the speed limit, get the heck out of the fast lane. Then you won't have to worry about me up your butthole.

 

[PSUPef2k]

I also hope those of you that "brake check" realize that if you cause an accident by tapping your breaks on purpose for no reason, you will get a ticket and possibly get charged with negligent driving. Food for thought.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: edro
People should not drive the speed limit in the left hand lane, when faster traffic is approaching. End of story.

Slower traffic is supposed to keep right, and the left lane is for passing--but you're also not supposed to exceed the speed limit to pass someone. End of story.