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? asked in Cars & TransportationSafety · 2 months ago

If your being tailgated and doing the speed limit or 5pmh over, how do you react?

Do you give in and speed up or slow down to piss them off and get revenge?

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  • 1 month ago

    Let me tell you something and Im dead serious. If youre being tailgated, leave it alone. If you feel threatened, call the police while driving.  Ive already witnessed two shootings related to road rage. You dont know whos carrying and who is not. I drive as if everyone is carrying a weapon... you should too!

  • zipper
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    I turn the flashers on for a second or two, then turn them off. Leaving them on is against the law in most States now!

  • F
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    You’re obviously a self appointed guardian of the speed limit. Just get out of the f@cking way!

  • 2 months ago

    You do not do any of those things.  You keep driving at the speed you are driving and wait for them to pass you.

  • 2 months ago

    I mostly do neither. I just keep driving at the same speed. Once in a while, if someone is really persistently tailgating, I slow down a little not to piss them off but to give them the best chance to pass.

  • 2 months ago

    If you're not blocking traffic how about just keep on driving?! Slowing down to piss the person off on purpose is asking for it dude. People with older cars have been known to run jerks off the road if someone brake checks them

  • arther
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    moving out of the way. By not hogging the road. you know what that sign says to do unless overtaking. 

  • mokrie
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    I pull off to the side and let the jerk go past. 

  • 2 months ago

    I take my foot off the gas.  The car goes slower and slower and then they decide to pass me.  In the last 20 years I've had two cars shot out from under me by rear-enders.

    If there is only one lane in each direction, and it's a curvy mountain road where you can't see far enough ahead to pass, and someone comes right up behind you and stays there, then you know you're in California.  8^<

  • 2 months ago

    Pull over and let them pass.

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