RustyNut wrote: » There is so much wrong with this but it boils down to this. Gob****e 1 meets Gob****e 2 almost resulting in a crash.
marshbaboon wrote: » My brother has the most incredible solution to tailgating. He slows down. Doesn't matter if he has somewhere important to be, he'll drive as slow as he can get away with, and feed on their tears of rage.
Colmustard wrote: » I said up the thread I rarely get tailgated and reading down the thread I realise why. I don't feel it is an affront and I just move over and let them by. They are probably in a hurry when I am not. Years ago I realised that no matter how fast you drive and pass other cars, you just meet them again at the traffic lights and the most time you will save on an average journey by speeding is little more then 5 minutes. So just relax and be late in peace.
Trevor Kent wrote: » Tailgaters dont bother me too much actually. I only get tailgated when Im caught behind a slow car. I usually stay well back from the car in front of me and benifit from the clearer view, and when the coast is clear.....whoosh im gone. What does bother me is: Lack of moterway/Dual-carriageway know-how. Take the N7 for instance. Everyone loves the middle lane, nobody drives in the left lane. It might as well be a 2 lane road. So when im driving in the left lane doing the speed limit, and catch up on someone going slower in the middle lane, technically, to avoid "undertaking" illegaly, I have to cross two lanes of traffic to overtake and cross back over 2 lanes again to the left lane. Does my nut. Im sure ill think of more.
Lollers wrote: » I'm talking about tailgaters when you are doing a high enough speed, let's say on a country road with lots of curves and there is nowhere to pull in. I'm not paranoid as you called me earlier, nor do I feel it's a affont to my driving skills, when someone wants to pass me out. I think tailgaters like these, will seriously injure or kill someone one day.
Colmustard wrote: » I do drive on country roads and I still will slow down move closer to the curb and let them by. They may kill someone and there is nothing I can do to change their hormones, so I just try and make it as safe as possible for them to overtake me. That is the responsible thing to do.
Lollers wrote: » I'm tailgated at least once a day. Gotten worse since the recession, nobody let's me out of a space, and no one waves thanks when I let them out. Stories from your travels ?
Shenshen wrote: » I've no problems with people letting me out, but I do know what you mean about being tailgated. I'm on a provisional, so I'm going the speed limit, at maximum 10km/h above it very occasionally. The amount of road rage I appear to incurr in others is frankly disturbing. Tailgating is one thing, but people will regularly insist on overtaking me when I'm doing 80 going down fairly narrow country lanes. At one point, someone overtook and nearly ran head-on into a car that came round the bend ahead. He pulled in in of me, I ended up nearly driving into the ditch. After that, I got out of the car, told my husband to drive home. I refused to get behind the wheel for about a year after that.
podgemonster wrote: » My pet peeve is 2 lanes at a red light, one for straight on or left which turns into a bus lane, one for straight on or right. I settle behind car on right lane if they're not indicating right. When the lights go green then they decide to throw in their indicators to turn right and stops now awaiting the traffic on the right to clear. Bástard!
Paddy@CIRL wrote: » I don't understand why some people can't grasp the simple idea of if someone wants to go faster than you, just let them by. If they're driving recklessly let them be someone else's problem. If you can't control your emotions behind the wheel, you shouldn't be driving IMO.
Trevor Kent wrote: » Tailgaters dont bother me too much actually. I only get tailgated when Im caught behind a slow car. I usually stay well back from the car in front of me and benifit from the clearer view, and when the coast is clear.....whoosh im gone. What does bother me is: Lack of moterway/Dual-carriageway know-how. Take the N7 for instance. Everyone loves the middle lane, nobody drives in the left lane. It might as well be a 2 lane road. So when im driving in the left lane doing the speed limit, and catch up on someone going slower in the middle lane, technically, to avoid "undertaking" illegaly, I have to cross two lanes of traffic to overtake and cross back over 2 lanes again to the left lane. Does my nut. Racing line Roundabout users. You know, the ones who are, lets say going straight (taking the secont exit) on a 2 lane road/roundabout, and start off in the left lane. Your going right (taking 3rd exit) so are in the right lane. You take off at the same time when the roundabout is clear but Michael Schumacher needs to take the racing line so crosses over into your lane, cutting you off and before you can shout "Nein" the bugger cuts back over to his lane, heads off straight (probably with no indicator) and about his merry way. That brings me onto the next one, indicator-aphobics. All I want is to knowwhere your going at a particular time so I can carry on about my buisness. If its a roundabout, show me where your going so I dont have to stop unnecessarily. If your in front of me, and want to turn left, a warning of some sort would be nice. 1 speeders.......you know the car you have been following for 5 miles on a single carriageway doing 60kph, soon as you hit a town with a 50kph limit, they carry on doing 60kph. Complete lack of awareness. And last "for now" is the manic overtaker who will risk life and limb to get that one car length closer to the top of a line of cars. Squeezing his way into a space you left between you and the car in front. Only for you to overtake him in traffic again. Im sure ill think of more.
Wicklowrider wrote: » Don't ever hold up another driver deliberately. For all you know they are on call emergency services responding to a call out. If you believe you have experienced frustration in traffic, try and imagine on call fire crew driving their own car to the station, responding to a life and death situation. I was responding one night to a call out when a genius took it upon himself to hold me up until lights changed. Bet he felt self satisfied, important and fulfilled ( BTW - I WASN'T EVEN SPEEDING). A mile away a house was blazing and someone's daughter was still in it. Every on call emergency responder could tell you stories like this. It is the gardai who are tasked with speed enforcement not you or I. Rant and sermon over .......
zerks wrote: » You can actually pass someone when you are in the left lane if the traffic to your right is moving slowly & causing an obstruction.
Fuinseog wrote: » I was driving a country road at night which was unfamiliar to me. there were plenty of curves and dangerous bends so I was taking it handy. the speed limit was 100km and I was driving at 70km and a car was tailgating me with his full lights on which dazzled me if I looked in the rear view mirror. first time I experienced that. next time I will drive slower and turn on my hazards.
eth0 wrote: » XC90... Horrible yoke, almost as much as a Gobsh1temobile as the Q7
Chuck Stone wrote: » I hate tailgaters. Drives me ****ing nuts. Got into an altercation on the side of the road a few months back because of it. I've been in two write-offs because of people not paying attention behind me. Neither my fault in any way before someone starts. I can feel my blood pressure rise thinking about tailgaters which is weird because it takes quite a lot to get a rise out of me. Fucking pricks.
geneyuss wrote: » ive driven over 2.5 million miles and have never even had a bang ona bumper in several different jobs in cars,/vans/lorrys,,maybe your just unlucky.or maybe you just cant drive??
Party Supply Van wrote: » Thats a bit of a silly statement. many people get rear ended, nothing to do with their driving skills.
dirtyden wrote: » 2.5 million miles!!!! ~100'000 miles a years for 25 years!!!!!!!!! Thats some serious driving. Was it mainly trucks, long distance stuff? I guess doing long trips it does not take long to clock the miles up. i am lucky to get 15000 miles up in a year. On the thread topic I always find it sort of weird, road rage. I got delayed at a roundabout for about 1 minute last sunday by someone just dawdling. I was burning up inside over a minute, and nothing usually bothers me. I was only getting the paper. There is something about driving that makes a lot of normally reasonable people impatient.
