How to deal with tailgaters
March 29th, 2015
I learned the hard way not to speed up.
Once at night I had a tailgater on a two lane road (no easy way to pass), and, being a nice guy, I sped up to accommodate him.
A mile later, the tailgater turned on his blue lights, pulled me over, and gave me a ticket for speeding.
So, now:
1) I get as far to the right as possible (left in countries that drive on the left).
I hope that’ll let them pass. Sometimes it doesn’t.
2) So then I slow down. Gradually (no “brake checking”).
And keep on slowing down. Until they pass me.
Occasionally I’ll have to slow down a lot before they’ll pass me – it’s amazing. Sometimes I end up going 15 miles/hour on a limited access highway! (interstate/freeway/autobahn/etc.)
[I wonder if these people just think it’s normal to drive 16 inches behind the car in front of them – once they finally pass, they look…confused.]
One time, on a small road, I had to come to a complete stop before the guy would pass me!
Guess what – he turned out to be a cop. Once I stopped he, very slowly, went around me and drove away.
June 12th, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Those are fantastic! I am pettry cautious when I drive (new to driving) and it drives me crazy when people whip around me, tailgate, change lanes excessively, etc. just so they can get that little bit ahead. Most of the time I notice that those people don’t end up getting anywhere any faster anyway.