Originally Posted by Andrew1954:
“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.