Cars that drive up your jacksie
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Had one last night and the headlights were blinding!
Boy Racer. In his Fiesta. The headlights were a bright blue colour even dimming the rear view mirror was still hard to see. They were that bright it was actually impeding vision to the front of my car. This was B roads from Scarborough. He was less than a meter away from my bumper.
I was at the speed limit and stuck to it. The road splits into two lanes so he flew past me at that point - I was at 60. He disappeared that quick I couldnt even see him in the distance for long. No need to drive like that.
Doesnt matter what the situation. I've had the situation of a little one in intensive care and didnt drive like that at all, why drive like a bell end and have the police visit your loved ones and tell them of more bad news.? OR cause an accident and then your banged up.
Either way your not going to end up at the destination you need to be in.
There is not one SINGLE excuse for that sort of driving. Hand your license in. Get off the road. Your a danger to your selves and other road users.
Boy Racer. In his Fiesta. The headlights were a bright blue colour even dimming the rear view mirror was still hard to see. They were that bright it was actually impeding vision to the front of my car. This was B roads from Scarborough. He was less than a meter away from my bumper.
I was at the speed limit and stuck to it. The road splits into two lanes so he flew past me at that point - I was at 60. He disappeared that quick I couldnt even see him in the distance for long. No need to drive like that.
Doesnt matter what the situation. I've had the situation of a little one in intensive care and didnt drive like that at all, why drive like a bell end and have the police visit your loved ones and tell them of more bad news.? OR cause an accident and then your banged up.
Either way your not going to end up at the destination you need to be in.
There is not one SINGLE excuse for that sort of driving. Hand your license in. Get off the road. Your a danger to your selves and other road users.
In an effort to hold on to my license I try to drive as far as possible to the posted limits, If someone wants to go faster, I do as much as I can to facilitate them getting past me, as they may have a valid reason for doing so, but have found that for some reason when in a sports car `some' other drivers get so close, they seem to want get inside my car via the boot lid. Its odd because even on a dual carriageway, where they could easily overtake some seem to insist on sitting rigidly a few feet back from the boot lid. Yesterday I had a McLaren P1 overtake me via the offside lane, with a complete tw*t in a BMW 1 series about two feet from his rear end. Even after the McLaren (which was already travelling above the posted limit) pulled back into the nearside lane in front of me, the tw*t in the 1 series did the same and remained a few feet from the rear of the McLaren. Possibly he realized that the McLaren could walk away from his 1 series anytime the Mac driver wanted to, but why insist on following it a few feet from the Macs rear end, when there was a perfectly clear offside lane?
Tailgated by an old VW Toureg with a Nurburgring sticker on the boot and big black alloy wheels yesterday on the motorway. My rear view mirror was all Toureg and nothing else!
I must be getting old because my first thought was that whatever his hurry was it was important enough to drive dangerously in a big lump of a vehicle that would take a good bit longer to slow down in, so I immediately looked to pull in to the inside lane.
5 minutes later we see him parking his jeep, 6 cars in front of us, at the local shopping centre
I must be getting old because my first thought was that whatever his hurry was it was important enough to drive dangerously in a big lump of a vehicle that would take a good bit longer to slow down in, so I immediately looked to pull in to the inside lane.
5 minutes later we see him parking his jeep, 6 cars in front of us, at the local shopping centre
donkmeister said:
When I'm in the Merc, I don't get tailgated. When I'm in the Picasso, I get tailgated and even overtaken on residential roads!
Same roads, same speeds. Very odd.
I find no correlation between brand of car and distance to my tailgate though.
Indeed, I often hit a 20 MPH on my way home from work. Its more than clearly signed and has road furniture to go with it (Speed humps). Yet, I get overtaken! Whats with that ?Same roads, same speeds. Very odd.
I find no correlation between brand of car and distance to my tailgate though.
It's the circumstances of the tailgating that dictate how much it pisses me off. If I've got nothing in front of me and I'm the hold up then I'll happily move over to let anyone past - I'd rather they were well ahead of me and gone. However if I'm held up by a queue of traffic myself and I'm leaving a reasonable distance, I do get somewhat annoyed by people that try and intimidate me out of the way even though there's nowhere for them to go. Likewise if I'm midway through passing someone in the outside lane and they barrel up as though it's not enough that I'm overtaking, they want me to speed up and get out of their way right NOW! (or ram the other car off the road that I'm overtaking or something - I've no idea what the mindset is in this circumstance).
Can thoroughly recommend to drivers that you don't brake test them though, no matter how tempting the idea is. At best you'll get a mouthful of abuse, at worst you'll be the cause of an accident by inflaming the idiot behind you.
Can thoroughly recommend to drivers that you don't brake test them though, no matter how tempting the idea is. At best you'll get a mouthful of abuse, at worst you'll be the cause of an accident by inflaming the idiot behind you.
RayPike said:
It's the circumstances of the tailgating that dictate how much it pisses me off. If I've got nothing in front of me and I'm the hold up then I'll happily move over to let anyone past - I'd rather they were well ahead of me and gone. However if I'm held up by a queue of traffic myself and I'm leaving a reasonable distance, I do get somewhat annoyed by people that try and intimidate me out of the way even though there's nowhere for them to go. Likewise if I'm midway through passing someone in the outside lane and they barrel up as though it's not enough that I'm overtaking, they want me to speed up and get out of their way right NOW! (or ram the other car off the road that I'm overtaking or something - I've no idea what the mindset is in this circumstance).
Can thoroughly recommend to drivers that you don't brake test them though, no matter how tempting the idea is. At best you'll get a mouthful of abuse, at worst you'll be the cause of an accident by inflaming the idiot behind you.
I brake tested someone recently who was up my arse, he then undertook me and straddled both lanes infront so i couldn't get passed (2 lane dual carriageway) and braked heavily about 4 times almost bringing me to a standstill, then he shot off... I couldn't pull Lane 1 as there were cars merging from the left.Can thoroughly recommend to drivers that you don't brake test them though, no matter how tempting the idea is. At best you'll get a mouthful of abuse, at worst you'll be the cause of an accident by inflaming the idiot behind you.
Pan Pan Pan said:
Yesterday I had a McLaren P1 overtake me via the offside lane, with a complete tw*t in a BMW 1 series about two feet from his rear end. Even after the McLaren (which was already travelling above the posted limit) pulled back into the nearside lane in front of me, the tw*t in the 1 series did the same and remained a few feet from the rear of the McLaren. Possibly he realized that the McLaren could walk away from his 1 series anytime the Mac driver wanted to, but why insist on following it a few feet from the Macs rear end, when there was a perfectly clear offside lane?
Some people do this hoping that the rare 'supercar' driver (I hate that term) will floor it. They want to see how well it goes I suppose.I'm not condoning the actions of the 1 series driver, as he sounds like he's a throbber, but I do think this is the case.
I've found its a large majority of the tailgaters are women. They simply cant judge how far away the car in front is.
My only theory is since they didn't grow up learning how to aim into a toilet while standing up, they've no concept of distance.
I'm probably guilty of sitting too close to the people hogging the outside lane of a dual carraigeway, sitting exactly at the speed limit as if to try and teach me a lesson and block me from exceeding it. Boils my blood
My only theory is since they didn't grow up learning how to aim into a toilet while standing up, they've no concept of distance.
I'm probably guilty of sitting too close to the people hogging the outside lane of a dual carraigeway, sitting exactly at the speed limit as if to try and teach me a lesson and block me from exceeding it. Boils my blood
As others have said, I always allow tailgaters past at the first opportunity, especially when my kids are in the back.
I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to who tailgates. Yesterday on the M5 it was a C2 with BMXs on the roof tailgating all the other cars as they stuck to 50 through the roadworks.
The self-appointed road police can be a nightmare. Just yesterday I could see a clear island and 3 cars slowly moving onto it with the first indicating into a garden centre which is 1st exit. I wanted to go straight on, 2nd exit, and decided I could enter the island in the right-hand lane and beat them round. But I couldn't - the second car, a 60 reg MCS - beat me to the exit, I backed off and he gave me a hand gesture so I waved an apology.
I then had to endure crawling behind him at 40, in an NSL, as my punishment. I kept a safe distance until he got over his hissy fit at which point he then sped off to well over the NSL. How is that better than my momentary lapse?!
I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to who tailgates. Yesterday on the M5 it was a C2 with BMXs on the roof tailgating all the other cars as they stuck to 50 through the roadworks.
The self-appointed road police can be a nightmare. Just yesterday I could see a clear island and 3 cars slowly moving onto it with the first indicating into a garden centre which is 1st exit. I wanted to go straight on, 2nd exit, and decided I could enter the island in the right-hand lane and beat them round. But I couldn't - the second car, a 60 reg MCS - beat me to the exit, I backed off and he gave me a hand gesture so I waved an apology.
I then had to endure crawling behind him at 40, in an NSL, as my punishment. I kept a safe distance until he got over his hissy fit at which point he then sped off to well over the NSL. How is that better than my momentary lapse?!
I can't say I've noticed one specific brand of vehicle that tailgates more often than others. The whole Audi/BMW thing is mostly confirmation bias I reckon.
I generally stick to the signed limits, as I've learned my lesson with points in the past. However If someone behind me is intent on making progress, I've no problem with letting them past. I do have a problem with someone sitting 3ft of my rear bumper however. Firstly it is a poor position for them to make an overtake from; it means they have to pull out to begin to accelerate, rather than accelerating in their own lane and then pulling out; and their visibility of the road ahead will be reduced.
Secondly it also means that should I have to brake suddenly, I'm likely to get rear ended. As I'm not a fan of getting rear ended (ahem) I gradually reduce my speed, so If I was in a 60 I would probably sit at 45-50 or until the car behind backs of to a suitable distance or overtakes. Other than that I continue to drive normally, I definitely don't do anything to make overtaking more difficult as that would be counter productive.
I generally stick to the signed limits, as I've learned my lesson with points in the past. However If someone behind me is intent on making progress, I've no problem with letting them past. I do have a problem with someone sitting 3ft of my rear bumper however. Firstly it is a poor position for them to make an overtake from; it means they have to pull out to begin to accelerate, rather than accelerating in their own lane and then pulling out; and their visibility of the road ahead will be reduced.
Secondly it also means that should I have to brake suddenly, I'm likely to get rear ended. As I'm not a fan of getting rear ended (ahem) I gradually reduce my speed, so If I was in a 60 I would probably sit at 45-50 or until the car behind backs of to a suitable distance or overtakes. Other than that I continue to drive normally, I definitely don't do anything to make overtaking more difficult as that would be counter productive.
These threads always show who the tailgaters are, the ones who are apoplectic with rage at the idea that someone being tailgated doesn't immediately disappear of the face of the Earth to facilitate the tailgated in moving on to bully someone else.
If someone being tailgated was to move over on a bendy road with a double white line, or even on a straight road, he's going to slow down the tailgater and force him to move round which the tailgater will probably see as antagonistic anyway.
I rarely get tailgated by someone I think is doing it deliberately in an aggressive way. Less so since I got a dark grey Audi A3 S Line which is the typical tailgater's car. It probably makes other aggressive drivers think they don't want to take on someone who might be more unhinged than they are. If I do it's usually because I've seen an immediate hazard the person behind hasn't or I'm in traffic with nowhere to go to get out of their way.
If there's a hazard ahead I'm not going to be bullied into driving faster. In traffic the correct thing to do is increase my stopping distance in front as I'm effectively driving safely for the tailgater as well as myself.
Once the traffic and the hazards clear I'm going to accelerate to my desired speed. If the tailgater can still pass, so be it, though even the fastest tailgaters tend to slow down once there's nothing ahead to target fixate on because they speed and tailgate to play Billy Big b
ks when there's traffic ahead and calm down when there isn't because all the speeding and tailgating is tiring for them.
If someone being tailgated was to move over on a bendy road with a double white line, or even on a straight road, he's going to slow down the tailgater and force him to move round which the tailgater will probably see as antagonistic anyway.
I rarely get tailgated by someone I think is doing it deliberately in an aggressive way. Less so since I got a dark grey Audi A3 S Line which is the typical tailgater's car. It probably makes other aggressive drivers think they don't want to take on someone who might be more unhinged than they are. If I do it's usually because I've seen an immediate hazard the person behind hasn't or I'm in traffic with nowhere to go to get out of their way.
If there's a hazard ahead I'm not going to be bullied into driving faster. In traffic the correct thing to do is increase my stopping distance in front as I'm effectively driving safely for the tailgater as well as myself.
Once the traffic and the hazards clear I'm going to accelerate to my desired speed. If the tailgater can still pass, so be it, though even the fastest tailgaters tend to slow down once there's nothing ahead to target fixate on because they speed and tailgate to play Billy Big b
ks when there's traffic ahead and calm down when there isn't because all the speeding and tailgating is tiring for them.
To be honest, there always seems to be woman white/salesman black Audi's in the Third Lane Brigade, but in the X5, its an intimidating car with its two suns for headlights and stonking huge silver grilles, and people mostly pull in to let us pass. No one 'up our jacksie' in that, unless they are carrying large speed.
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