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Old 02-01-2017, 13:50
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Just hope the next person you try to wind-up isn't 2017's version of Kenneth Noye or Matthew Daley.
No idea who they are.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:06
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Touch the brake lightly with your left foot.
It'll be enough to engage the brake lights and make them shit themselves.
You don't need to use your brakes to slow down. Just drop a gear... It utterly terrifies the snowflakes!

Although I did have to brake hard recently near here when a car was tailgating me on a 50mph road just before Christmas.

The driver was far too busy looking at us and gesticulating as he overtook and accelerated past to see the deer that I had successfully avoided. It was quite a bang and a nasty mess.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:16
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No idea who they are.

Both homicidal knife wielding ‘road-ragers';... Matthew Daley is a paranoid schizophrenic,…Kenneth Noye is an evil shithouse.

It’s never a good idea to antagonize other road users, IMHO.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:23
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Yes, it's early yet. Also tailgating is a bad position from which to overtake. I watched a exemplary bit of driving the other day on the way to Henley on a windy but quite good main road. Most traffic was making good progress at about 50 mph when I spotted this bloke in a open topped sports car some cars back from me. He wasn't tailgating. He was holding back, reading the road and then when the opportunity occured overtook, coming up to a safe distance behind the next car, again reading the road before overtaking as the opportunity occured all the way up the line, past me and past the car in front and so on. That's how to do it.
Yep, I have to overtake people all the time, far more than most people do (but then I have the advantage that most people allow me too). But it surprises me how many people do not know how to over take properly. It should be something with more emphasis when learning and on the test. So many serious RTC's result from bad overtaking.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:29
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Both homicidal knife wielding ‘road-ragers';... Matthew Daley is a paranoid schizophrenic,…Kenneth Noye is an evil shithouse.

It’s never a good idea to antagonize other road users, IMHO.
Ah okay.

It probably isn't a good idea, but if someone is acting aggressively towards me, they're likely to get some back.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:07
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It always seems to me that drivers become more impatient and faster when it's raining. If anything you should be more cautious.

People going for a Sunday drive - how many people actually do this anymore?

Some one who drives for a living tells me of all sorts of crazy things they see week to week. In the next town is a one way system, and she was driving at night and was going along the 1 way system to be confronted by a car coming the other way. They both got out, and the lady in the car apparently said "I always come this way - I don't know of any over way".

My route to work is currently popular with driving schools. If you leave a slightly bigger gap between u and the learner in front, some drivers will beep the horn behind you.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:15
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It's quite interesting watching a serious tailgater from a safe distance behind. You notice their brake lights flashing on and off as they match the speed of the car they're so closely following. Perhaps It's not surprising they don't overtake because their tiny little brains are concentrating so hard on the car in front that they can't take in the wider picture and look for opportunities to overtake.

I see this a lot. Some people appear unable to leave a sensible gap and regulate their speed using just the gas pedal.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:17
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I remember riding in the car with a former friend of mine one Sunday morning. We were behind a few cyclists and there was no way we could overtake. He was becoming aggressive and generally being an arse about them supposedly going slow.

He drives like a right idiot and would moan about other people driving slowly. (read: sticking to the speed limit)
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:17
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Touch the brake lightly with your left foot.
It'll be enough to engage the brake lights and make them shit themselves.

I wouldn't recommend this!
Doing it at low speeds on an empty road, I nearly went thru the windscreen!
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:52
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Touch the brake lightly with your left foot.
It'll be enough to engage the brake lights and make them shit themselves.
Always works great for me too.

Tailgaters instantly lose their enthusiasm for tailgating after an unexpected quick flash of the brake lights. They quickly become a small speck in your mirror at a very safe distance while they recover from the shock.
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Old 02-01-2017, 16:03
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Managed to get tailgated on the way home, didn't seem to matter that I changed speed with the speed limit and got up to 60, driver behind wanted to be 3 car lengths away. In the end I decided on the slow down with no brakes approaching the 30 rather than left foot on the brake.
I could understand a bit if I had not reacted immediately to the signs or only got up to 40 say.
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Old 02-01-2017, 16:10
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Several times recently I've experienced aggressive Sunday evening tailgaters. It happened again tonight. Same scenario. I'm driving along at the speed limit. Very few cars on the road. They could easily overtake if they wanted to. Tonight I felt they were being aggressive, intimidating. The driver kept driving up until his lights disappeared beneath the view of my rear mirror. In the end I indicated and slowed to pull over into a lay by, but he was so close he had to slowdown too, but in the end swerved out and accelerated up to maybe 80 mph in a 30 mph limit. What is the problem with such people? Are they being intentionally intimidating or are they just stupid? Or are they trying to set up some kind of insurance scam? What do you do or would you do in this situation?
I've experienced much the same thing with tailgating, although admittedly not in situations where the cars could easily overtake me. Mine was due to keeping the speed limit where others wanted to break it.

I would just carry on regardless and not let them intimidate me. Of course there is always a risk of being rear ended by these idiots if you had to suddenly brake sharply.

I also like the brake light approach mentioned above.
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