• @toynbee
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      161 month ago

      I mentioned this in another recent post, but before I was old enough to drive, my mom always said that one should let aggressive drivers “go have their accident somewhere else.”

      • @currycourier
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        128 days ago

        Outside of the states I assume? In the states the left-most lane is the passing lane.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Yeah, it’s a win-win. You get the person off your ass. The other person gets to continue their journey. If you were walking on the sidewalk, you’d move.

      • @makyo
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        71 month ago

        It’s like win-win-win because then you have someone surely going faster ahead of you who’ll get a ticket instead of you. And if there’s a lot of traffic, at least they rear end someone else when traffic suddenly stops.

    • FuglyDuck
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      31 month ago

      the vast majority of time I’m being tailgaited it’s one of 3 situations:

      1. Rushhour traffic, and there’s no where to pull over to, and I’m pacing the car in front of me (and generally beside me. Or I’m passing because, you know. traffic.)

      2. driving home late at night. The highway is basically empty (and I’m never in the furthest-left lane,) it’s me and the other guy and for whatever reason they want to suck my exhaust for 5 miles before figuring out that I’m not going to suddenly drive faster just because they creeped up on me from 5 miles back.

      3. they’re drunk and are pacing me because they can’t really stay on the road otherwise.

      none of these circumstances lends to your “just”.