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12-24-2014, 12:44 AM | #29 | ||
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Next line up. I agree that you will have to come to an abrupt stop on a freeway at some point. I just happens and most all Californians are aware of that. You learn this very quickly in any large metropolitan area in California. All of the reasons you posted before the bolder example are good reasons to stop the car on the side of the road. Not in the middle of it. last but not least the whole discussion is weather the guy that break checked the tailgater had the right to leave the accident. Everyone who knows anything about an auto insurance policy knows that the guy tailgating is in the wrong to start with. In the state of California it is ILLEGAL to purposely make an action with a vehicle that would cause an accident. But again the tailgater is still wrong. It was also wrong and ILLEGAL the guy left the scene of the accident he was involved in without stopping talking to the owner of the other vehicle involved.
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12-26-2014, 12:45 AM | #30 |
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Looks like he totalled his piece of shit jetta a couple days ago haha
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12-26-2014, 02:04 AM | #31 |
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Do not wait until they go around you because passing is to be done on the left. If you do not have a lane to the left and you are not passing a vehicle, you are in the wrong lane.
The Ontario drivers handbook says to increase the distance in front of you when tailgated. Brake checking is a spiteful exaggeration of that, and certainly makes you a bigger asshole. Slowing down or brake checking, just like flashing you're lights or tailgating, are both done to send the message. None of the "messages" are even necessary, unless someone feels that they "belong" in the left lane. Ideally, person in front sees car approaching and moves over, passer passes and moves over. |
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12-26-2014, 01:29 PM | #32 | |
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So what is the proper lane configuration in bumper to bumper traffic? That's right BOTH lanes are full. |
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12-26-2014, 01:47 PM | #33 |
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In bumper to bumper traffic, I try to be understanding. Traffic as a whole will flow faster if all lanes are used and as little lane switching is done by everyone on the road, collectively.
IMHO, if you are wanting to pass, it is the fault of the person in front of you, or the person in the front of the line. |
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I don't get brake checked when I drive. It's ALWAYS the hater truck drivers on the freeways who purposely swerve to the shoulder to kick up rocks and debris when I'm driving behind them.
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I never understood this "brake check" thing people do, I'm in Australia and I've never seen it done. Is this just a US thing?
Tailgaters annoy me, but I just think they are idiots that don't know how to drive safely, it's never crossed my mind to try and cause an accident by "brake checking" them, that just sounds idiotic. "Oh, look at this guy traveling too close behind me, he obviously is driving unsafely. I know what to do, I'll create a situation that will increase the chance of him running into the back of me, then we can spend 15 minutes exchanging insurance information and arguing, possibly resulting is a physical fight, then later I can be without my car for a week or two while it is repaired. Hahaha, that will teach him..." To me it just seems like a macho guy thing, not too sure why, it just does (I am a male BTW). In the past, if I did want to do something about a tailgater, I gradually slowed down. I realise that it's kind of pointless now and don't do anything. If they want to follow close, that's their problem, not mine. I do however leave at least a two second gap in front of me so any emergency braking I do can be modulated to perhaps prevent that tailgater from hitting me. |
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Doesn't work in a traffic jam but at highway speeds, if you use your windshield washer it sprays the car behind you.
That's kinda fun.
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The term came about because to check one's brakes before starting out on a long journey, one would perform a "brake check" by stabbing the brakes to make sure they are capable of locking up. When I talk about it, it is merely applying the brakes enough to make the brake lights come on. This is to "remind" the person following that they had better be prepared to stop. MANY times people tailgate because they are not paying enough attention and need a quick reminder that they are ,in fact, behind the wheel of a vehicle. The law states that there shall be one car length per 10 MPH of speed. Therefore at highway speeds 55 MPH, there should be at least 5 car lengths or 50 feet. So when someone is behind me at 55 MPH so closely that I cannot see their headlights (because they are below my rear hood) , they get a "brake check". If they still dont get the message, I will just lift the throttle and start coasting for a bit. That usually works and they back off. I never just Lock the brakes hoping someone rear-ends me. |
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That's the law? That sounds very close, I think most cars are longer that 10 feet, more like 4m (12ft), so that makes it a little over 1 second gap.
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is not actually a emergency and it leads to fatality. Check out this Canadian lady that was given life for stopping on a highway to help ducks. http://rt.com/news/167644-canada-duc...rist-sentence/ |
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1008. Following too closely. (1) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway. https://www.codot.gov/library/traffi...l-traffic-code Please don't give false information.
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I get these kind of people every day. Going 55 in the fast lane and speeding up to 70 when you try to pass them. Good job being an a-hole. |
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This thread is making its way off topic, the point here is that someone purposely made a brz rear end him, not cool at all, idc how u drive or in what lane, to purposely lock your brakes to make someone crash behind u is wrong, if i was that brz i would have chased this guy an pited him against a wall
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