As you should op, as a rightful punishment for tailgating. However please aim for the nearest tree so you dont endanger other drivers.
No! Not the poor tree! Aim for the nearest rich person instead
It’s possible to see these at a stop light though
Even then you shouldnt be that close in case you have to move to the side to make space for emergency services and stuff.
You’re not wrong but the realities of living in a city are that people bunch up at stop lights.
suicide by oncoming traffic is such a dick move. you don’t have the right to endanger other lives just because you’re suicidal.
if you want to kill yourself, do it right. go to Michael’s™ and buy a tank of helium to asphyxiate yourself.
Hey, Helium is too valuable to waste like that! A toaster in the bathtub will do just fine.
Respectfully, please do not do this. Helium is a non-renewable resource. Once lost to the atmosphere it’s gone for good. Nitrogen on the other hand makes up 78% of the atmosphere and is equally effective.
Helium gets replaced by radiation. You can do your part by breathing in radon. I love helping science!
We can make all the helium we need, just have to figure out Fusion Power.
/s
ah good point. so instead, go to your local tire shop and fill some balloons with nitrogen :p
Bro really just said “We can’t replace helium, unlike you, pick a different suicide option”
but he’s got a point though.
Respectfully, the dead need not care about loss of non-renewable resources.
Aint that mentality kind of why climate change is a thing, the oil barons will be dead when rest of humanity has to suffer from their actions
I’m with the furry on this one. Fuck tailgaters.
I’ll personally just slow down until they either get the message and back off, or get annoyed enough to pass. Or if I see a piece of debris ahead, maintain speed until the VERY last second, then swerve to avoid it - they won’t have time to react, and will run it over. I got some asshole to run full speed into a chunk of some other car’s bumper doing that, and I gotta say it was the best high I’ve ever had!
*above does not apply to slow drivers camping in the fast lane. If that’s you, you’re the asshole.
Ah yes, combating road rage with road rage. As is tradition
To be clear, I don’t ever break check, as that’s dangerous as fuck - I’ll just drop a mph every few seconds until they fuck off. Idk if I’d call that rage… my safety is compromised by them riding that close to me, so finding ways to get them off is a defensive move. I also don’t want to be the one to change lanes, since collisions tend to happen during transitions, so that’d just be switching from one unsafe situation to another. If I tactically annoy the other driver until they move, then it ends the risk to me without increasing the odds of hitting someone or something else… and since they’re already putting my safety at risk, I don’t really give a damn about theirs.
As for the debris situation, yeah I got nothing - that was rage, lol. But damn did it feel good! Thankfully there’s not enough shit on the road to make that a go-to option, but I’ll definitely scope the road out ahead juuust to be sure before starting the slow-down thing. Cuz, and I can’t overstate this: fuck tailgaters.
Okay I don’t get the not switching lanes part, maybe I don’t drive enough. Why are people tailgating when there are multiple lanes, unless you’re in the leftmost lane for too long?
Not switching lanes thing - this goes back to the driver’s ed course I took like 50,000 years ago, but the gist was auto collisions pretty much never happen when everyone is just cruising and staying in their lane; collisions happen during transitions like lane changes, merges, accelerating/decelerating etc. So, best practice in multilane highway situations is to get established wherever you’re comfortable among the ‘pack’ of cars cruising around you, and then maintain that position relative to the other vehicles. So when douchebag decides to ride my ass, me changing lanes to get out of his way compromises my own safety. Tailgaters tend not to be very patient, so responding to their behavior by instead decelerating (slowly), they usually don’t make it more than a few mph before they give up and go around.
Why are people tailgating when there are multiple lanes, unless you’re in the leftmost lane for too long?
Power move is my guess. I personally live in the cousin-fuckingly deep US south, and I drive a tiny car. 90% of the time someone wants to tailgate me, it’s some lifted monster truck… I think rednecks are actually offended by little cars. The other 10% are fancy sports cars. In either case, it’s the kind of vehicle that screams insecurity, so trying to impose themselves on other drives fits the M.O.
I tend to cruise in the middle lane - that way I don’t need to worry about people merging on the right, nor pay much attention to traffic behind me to ensure I’m not impeding the left. So, it’s usually in the middle lane that I have issues with tailgaters. If I’m cruising in the left lane, it’s usually because EVERY lane is jacked up, but in that situation I’m not getting ‘out of the way’ of the people behind me cuz I’m stuck in traffic right with em. People still tailgate in that situation and it’s like… bro I get it, I wanna go faster too, fuck off.
Tldr, people are assholes.
I’ve had another driver brandish a gun at me for doing that. Be safe out there! Making a point isn’t worth your life.
People be crazy.
Unless you live in a country with gun control. Then you can be slightly more passive aggressive as long as you’re not creating an unsafe driving scenario.
Even with some gun control, you never know if the asshole is a cop on break. Fuckers love to carry and threaten others with weapons and will shoot to prove their point (at least in Brazil)
