9 times out of 10 the people who post this kind of stuff or the people with 10,000 bumper stickers about tailgating are just bad drivers who need to blame it on everyone else to soothe their ego.
It’s much easier to call every else crazy instead of realizing that you’re just slow and in the way.
It’s always the people fixated on tailgaters who are oblivious and going 50% of the speed limit because they’re too busy staring at the traffic they’re creating instead of focusing on the road.
I regularly have people tailgate me when I am driving only 75 mph in a 65 mph area, despite the fact that the person ahead of me is driving the same speed as me so I could not drive any faster even if I wanted to. Fortunately the situation is usually resolved as soon as enough space opens up in the neighboring lane that they can dart past me and tailgate the car in front of me instead.
I have no problem with them going around me when space opens up; I have a problem with them doing unsafe things, such as tailgating me until space opens up to pass me and then rushing past with narrow margins, especially when the result is that they only gain a couple of car lengths and just end up tailgating the car in front of me instead.
Oh comeon, we all know that it’s an unwritten rule that you either drive exactly at the speed limit, or up to 9 MPH over, because no cop will pull you over unless you’re egregiously speeding (because literally everybody speeds). Don’t be a fool who follows the law to the letter, rather than interpreting the intention of the law as you should, and also like judges and lawyers get paid to do.
Don’t know where you live, but in my state there is a law that states that you must go with the flow of traffic, regardless of the speed limit. Driving slower than the flow of traffic not only causes traffic jams, but also increases the chances of either getting into—or causing an accident. Your stubbornness causes more issues than it fixes.
9 times out of 10 the people who post this kind of stuff or the people with 10,000 bumper stickers about tailgating are just bad drivers who need to blame it on everyone else to soothe their ego.
It’s much easier to call every else crazy instead of realizing that you’re just slow and in the way.
It’s always the people fixated on tailgaters who are oblivious and going 50% of the speed limit because they’re too busy staring at the traffic they’re creating instead of focusing on the road.
I regularly have people tailgate me when I am driving only 75 mph in a 65 mph area, despite the fact that the person ahead of me is driving the same speed as me so I could not drive any faster even if I wanted to. Fortunately the situation is usually resolved as soon as enough space opens up in the neighboring lane that they can dart past me and tailgate the car in front of me instead.
Cool story, sounds like you’re bad at keeping pace. Maybe try using your cruise control
I do use adaptive cruise control. Mysteriously, this does not cause the car in front of me to drive any faster.
Idk if they have the space to get around you it sounds like you were just in the way and angry that someone has the audacity to go around you.
I have no problem with them going around me when space opens up; I have a problem with them doing unsafe things, such as tailgating me until space opens up to pass me and then rushing past with narrow margins, especially when the result is that they only gain a couple of car lengths and just end up tailgating the car in front of me instead.
Idk it sounds like you’re bad at keeping pace so people go around you
It’s a speed limit, not a mandatory speed.
I also have to say that I was frequently tailgated, because I was going at the speed limit, when mostly everyone else went above.
Oh come on, we all know that it’s an unwritten rule that you either drive exactly at the speed limit, or up to 9 MPH over, because no cop will pull you over unless you’re egregiously speeding (because literally everybody speeds). Don’t be a fool who follows the law to the letter, rather than interpreting the intention of the law as you should, and also like judges and lawyers get paid to do.
Don’t know where you live, but in my state there is a law that states that you must go with the flow of traffic, regardless of the speed limit. Driving slower than the flow of traffic not only causes traffic jams, but also increases the chances of either getting into—or causing an accident. Your stubbornness causes more issues than it fixes.
You’re talking to chronically online people, they have no concept of what normal conventions are.
They just see the rules as an excuse to be pedantic losers.
You’re not a cop you have no authority to enforce the speed limit.
People are going to drive like this, it’s your choice to sit in the way, pissing everyone including yourself off.