Tailgating

[tlo86]

I've had people aggressively tailgate me before. I just tap the brakes at first. If that doesn't work, I slow down. If they keep tailgating, I slow down more and more, then I take off . I had a car get so close that I could see the whole car under the spoiler and I couldn't see their headlights at all.

But whatever, people are asses.

i actually do the same thing heh. and when i take off they never tailgate again. or if they pass speed up-yeah im that guy

 

[bmoss85]

i slow down, and then if they dont back off i lock down the brakes and hope they slam into the hitch on the back of my truck.

if i have my kids with me i just slow down about 5-10mph below the speed limit. it makes me more angry when my kids are in the car. but i dont brake check people when they are with me.

 

[Supra28]

It pisses me off when people tailgate me, wish I had a flamethrower kit hahaha or just be able to shoot fireballs. There's times when I tailgate people and not even notice it, then just let off when reality hits me.

 

[bmoss85]

i do also like to slow down and when they try and pass me i floor it so they cant go around, works too. also not with kids or my wife in the car.

 

[m1ng]

I'll try to light brake too,then down shift if that guy won't pass me when he can

 

[spipedong]

The last one I brake checked hard got mad and turned on his red and blues. He said I could have caused an accident. I said if he wasn't following too close, he could have had time to slow down. I still got a ticket....

lol wned:

I was about 2 seconds from brake checking someone a few years ago and all of a sudden they swerved into the other lane hit the red and blues and just flew past me. I'm sure glad he wasn't back there another couple seconds :sarcasm:

 

[NocturnalKitty]

people don't dare tailgate me, their eyes'll be watering from my catlessness.

ppl still tailgated me even when i was catless...kinda miss it when my car use to throw fireballs. hahaha

i usually give em a good brake check...my b/f is always getting on my case about doing it but i don't care. that shit pisses me off. sucks but there will most likely always be idiots that do shit like that.

 

[topguncam3888]

i brake checked (rather harshly) once on a rainy night. i watched in my rear view as the guy swerved on the shoulder then smacked in the bottom of a ditch. point made biatch hahaha

 

[pimptrizkit]

^^^ouch he was definitly a drunk driver then.


i have people ride me all the time, i have been a dam good driver since i got my wreckless (for speeding )

usualy if i have some one get on my tail i let up on the gas and adjust the following distance i have with the car infront of me, i figure if they hit me, i'll have enough room to slow both of us down...

if im on the free way and some one ride's me hard i'll move over.. but i'll ride em a bit just to piss em off with my brights on, then i pass em.




i have a huge issue with cops tail gating.

i've learned just not to brake check and to tap on them so they flash, if they dont back off slow down.

by then their either going to pull you over or not.

i just wish we can fight the ticket since the illegaly were following to close..

 

[IJ.]

i tap my brakes and look in my rear view...if they get all pissed and do it again i slam harder and they tend to back off. im always in the fast lane going about 70 in the 65 btw.

If someone comes up behind you going faster why not just get the fuck out of the way? (a: they'll get nailed by the cops first if they're in front and b: it doesn't hurt you to move over let em past then move back does it?)

I :love: the fucktards that tailgate, you move over then they drop 5 so you end up on their bumper.......:nono:

 

[LilMissMkIII]

I'm with the majority on this... It happens to me all the time... I slow RIGHT down, and if that doesn't work, tap the brakes... I had a guy the other night get the shits with that, and he overtook on double lines, so I got his plates and called the cops on his ass

 

[adampecush]

If I'm in the fast lane passing people (over the limit of course - if I'm near the limit, I'm never in the fast lane) and somebody decides to get their bumper up my ass, I will slow to the speed of the car beside me. Tailgate me all you want, it doesn't mean that you will get anywhere any faster.

 

[Doward]

My thoughts:

Normal 2 lane road:
Tailgating is unnecessary. Just back the fuck off, and pass when the opportunity arises. If I'm the one being tailgated, I'll flash the brakes. That usually works. I've STOOD on the brakes a couple of times, and had people run off the road avoiding me.

If someone in front of me is doing 10-15 under the speed limit, it's usually pretty damn easy to just pass them and continue about my merry way. How do you know their transmission isn't locked in 2nd or something?

4 lane or more road (2 in both directions)
If you are in the left lane, and someone's coming up on your ass, GTFO. SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT DAMMIT.

If you are in the right lane, and someone's coming up on your ass, see rules for 2 lane road.

 

[Dan_Gyoba]

I used to react like that... Now I'm older and (I think) wiser.

I will slow down, but I won't do anything to deliberately provoke the person behind me. I won't flash the brakes, or do anything of that nature. I've seen that make the situation more dangerous more often than I've ever seen it help.

 

[honestabe]

If I'm in the Supra I'll speed up, move over so they can pass, then tailgate them once they pass me just to screw with them. If they get too close to me while I'm stopped at a light, I'll throw the car in reverse and maybe back up an inch or so. Then again, I'm an asshole.

Adam

 

[chopstickz]

hmm... everyday and all day in CA... but one car was literally 1feet away from a rsxs for a good 10 minutes... and he got reallly mad and slammed on the brakes going from 80 to 50 in a few seconds.. lol it made my day.

 

[mista_sup]

in ny all you need to do is slow down and right befor the light changes take off only allowing the tailgater to catch the traffic light did that a few time when i went back to ny. i know that pees them off..

hmm... everyday and all day in CA... but one car was literally 1feet away from a rsxs for a good 10 minutes... and he got reallly mad and slammed on the brakes going from 80 to 50 in a few seconds.. lol it made my day.

 

[Kangae]

Normally when I see that done (or have tried it I must say) the other guy seems to have no problem running the red light, that happens an awful lot around here too. Far to often I see people treat red lights like stop signs or maybe 4 way stops for that matter. Either way the only time you are allowed to go through a red light here is right on red but noone cares, cops do it.

Cops around here will provoke you into all types of stuff too, like ive seen cops around here drive behind you at night with their lights off to catch you doing something, or tailgate you till you speed. One time one even was parked on the opposite side of the road and had his highbeams (not moving, just parked at night in the country, in the rain) on so I couldnt tell what kind of car it was, and that was my first speeding ticket.

 

[lppro]

i put a big trailer hitch and ball on the back of my truck for tailgaters (;

 

[miekedmr]

This reminded me of a time was driving around in my old pickup.

There was an asshole tailgating me very close down a 30mph city street. It was a smallish 4 door car, something like a Corsica. I slowed down quite a bit, enough to make it clear I didn't enjoy him riding my ass. Then, at a stop sign, I only paused for a couple seconds before he drove clear around me, other side of the double yellow, and made a right turn in front of me, not really slowing to see if there was traffic despite limited visibility.

I happened to be going the same way and pulled up behind him at a LONG stop light. (oh, the irony.) I felt like being a dick back, so I slowly crept up on him until I tapped his bumper. Four pretty large guys immediately popped out of all four doors looking PISSED. (They were probably drunk too, at 2am sunday morning.) There wasn't anyone behind me, so I just put it in reverse and peeled out backwards for a bit and took off on a side road.

The (anticlimactic) End