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American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It
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There are roads where speeding is so common you will in fact be dangerously tailgated if you drive the speed limit
German standard.
And don't dare to drive lower, although of course you'd be legally allowed to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
i have gotten tailgated by a semi truck in a highway construction zone, one of the scariest things i have experienced while driving. i couldnt even see his lights in my back window he was so close
I got tailgated on a rural highway by a semitruck once. I was going 70 mph. When I slowed down to stop at a red light, they changed lanes and blew through it.
You should have brake check him /joking
My entire commute
When you do this, they become a reasonable person and stop doing what they're doing
That's how you get followed home by a road rager, possibly possessing a firearm.
The best method is to spray your windshield.
Some of it gets swept with the wind into their windshield, and they have to wipe/clean theirs.
I don't think that's ever failed to get someone to back off.
Why would someone care about this? I’ve had this happen to me a handful of times, almost always a jeep because they have crazy over spray, I was never tail gating but I was totally unphased by it, its wiper fluid not acid
That's why I fill my windshield wiper fluid reservoir with hexafluorosilicic acid.
I don't think people care about it, but it seems to trigger some subconscious "I'm too close" and they drop back a bit.
I guess if someone is actually being an asshole aggressive tailgater then they won't care