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Welcome to petty lane (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by thal3s@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I was on a 3 pane highway going interstate. Doing 80 in a 65 on the fast lane. Big rig in the middle lane. Slowly gaining and will pass the bog rig.

Then a pickup is coming up in the fast lane TOO FAST. Easily 100mph. She tailgates me. Now boxxed in with me in front and the big rig on her right. A sane person would go in the third lane and pass us since zero other cars around. But no.

She lays on her horn and starts swaying with impatience.
So I match speed with the big rig. Maintaining the box. She honks ways more and sways even more. Shaking her fist at me.

I maintain it for another 2 minutes until my wife gets concerned she'll rear end us and we end up spinning off the highway or under the big rig.

I give in and speed up past the big rig and change lanes to her wacko pass. They speed off.

Yeah it's never worth it. You never know what people will do.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It’s good to slow down to get the traitor off your ass, but be careful: our traitor zoomed around us and cut us off out of spite. My girlfriend pointed out that behavior like that will get that worthless dumbfuck shot one day.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is this lady using her phone while driving, after speeding by 20MPH and thinking it's a flex? If she uses it at 20MPH I'd bet she uses it at 70 MPH too! Couldn't this have waited until she was safely off the road?

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I expect this is sarcasm (can't know, because of Poe's)

But for anyone genuinely thinking this you can see the dashcam source in her glasses reflection.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Kevin vs Karen.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Sometimes i really wish i had the time to get into a fenderbender, just so that the asshole behind gets their comeuppance.

Not an actual encouragement for break checking idiots, please be safe.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

What to do when you have a tailgater behind you:

Foot off the gas.
Wait until the tailgater tries to overtake you.
PIT maneuver.
Keep driving safely.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This is why I'm in favor of public transit. So many people should not be on the road. This goes for the granny under the speed limit drivers and the insane road ragers.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I've never understood why people pick on drivers under the speed limit. It's called a limit, why do we expect people to be over it?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are speed limits in both directions, in every jurisdiction I'm familiar with it's illegal to drive both too fast and too slow, to exceed the posted speed limit or to drive so slowly that it impedes other traffic.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, that's very interesting. Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want, though everyone will overtake you if they can or honk at you if you don't.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 51 minutes ago

Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want,

Are you sure that you really don't have any traffic rules against causing a hazard or impeding traffic flow by being too slow? That seems both unusual and unsafe to me.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

because they are assholes who think anyone going slower than them is stupid and they are very smart and the speed limit should not apply to such very smart people.

[–] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Depending where it is, a figure of speech up to a certain point of where they actual enforce it, most cops don't even go the speed limit on some roads and highways.

They're low and out dated as fuck, and mostly just a money grab, again, depending on the street and the limit, for example excluding in front of schools and parks

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Once she gets to work she finds a sign taped to the back of the car saying "honk it's my birthday"

[–] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When people ride my ass while I am doing (at least) the speed limit I just take my foot off the gas to gently slow down until they go around me. If its only one lane then I will go under the speed limit. Im petty too like that

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's not just petty, it's safety.

You can't influence the size of the safety margin between you and the car behind you. But you can influence the speed at which the person behind you slams into you in case of an accident, by reducing the speed that both of you drive.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

When I drive in deer country, especially at night, I will always slow up when encountering a tailgater because I might have to brake hard for an animal and don't want to hit a deer AND/OR get rear ended - going slower means they will at least hit me less hard. They can go around if they don't like my speed. Also, statistics show that drivers that stay well behind other vehicles have far fewer accidents. Finally, traffic tends to travel at the speed of the slowest drivers on the road, so they gain little on our curvy, hilly two lane roads.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 37 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

I just let them pass you. Not worth some lunatic you piss off even more and end up shooting you.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If it's a 2 lane per side road the best way to get them to pass you is to not break check them but just take your foot off the gas until they get frustrated enough to just go around but this contextually sounds like a single lane sitch which you are correct is dangerous.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a school bus driver and the course material (and test questions) for the CDL state this explicitly. If someone is tailgating you, you slow down. Tailgaters are gonna tailgate no matter what, and slowing down means the damage will be less if they do happen to hit you. If that makes them mad tough tittie (the course material does not use "tough tittie" but you can tell they wanted to).

The great irony of people who tailgate school buses is that WE CAN'T EVEN FUCKING SEE YOU BACK THERE. Even in your fantasy world of the person in front of you feeling pressured and speeding up (which never ever actually happens), it can't possibly happen if they don't even know you're there.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not doubting you at all, but how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus? As if you can force a bus into anything.

If you tailgate a larger vehicle, all you do is put yourself into mortal danger.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus?

Pretty fucking dumb but it's a low bar. The only upside to tailgating a larger vehicle like a bus is that our stopping distance is a lot greater so the tailgater is less likely to slam into us.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 hours ago

Unfortunately for some, that pressure is real and entirely illogical. For the longest time my wife would start getting anxious and frustrated when someone tailgated her and would start to speed up... Only to contue getting tailgated by the same person. Took a lot of insistence from me to not play their stupid game for her to realize that not only was it stupid to speed up for them, but more dangerous and entirely illegal to start speeding just because of a tailgater.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 57 points 19 hours ago

This comment section is a very good case study in why better public transportation is absolutely necessary: a lot of you should not ever drive.

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