Originally Posted By: supton
Originally Posted By: Wolf359
Hmm... Not really sure about your area, but we're pretty well known to have crazy drivers and I know people who don't want to drive in the city. It happens here all the time, usually a couple times a hour while driving. The first time it kinda reminds you to pay better attention and to minimize the gap. But the crazies will do it anyway and count on you to brake to let them in. It's so common that you don't even honk anymore, it's pointless.
I remember eons ago... I found myself driving on a regular basis through MA & CT, and wound up believing that at all times someone wanted to kill me while driving through those states. I had to take a break for a while, I got so paranoid. When I went back to driving in those states, I decided to take a page from them & drove faster. Immediate fix to the problem. I can't explain it, but the right lane was just dangerous, center not much better. Drive fast enough to stay center or left, and magically it's only a couple of really fast drivers that I have to worry about--and even they just zip on by.
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It's easy to tailgate, you just have your foot hover over the brake and keep an eye out to watch the 2-3 cars ahead of the one you're tailgating. If anyone brakes, that's a sign you should brake. It'd be too late if you waited for the guy in front to do it. You don't tailgate a vehicle where you can't see the traffic in front of them though. Somewhat exhausting and hard to do for long so eventually the gap increases and someone cuts you off.
Yep, monitor the road for as far as you can see, and then it becomes easy. That's true even if you're following at the proper distance.
I have to wonder. Never tried this. But if I were to, in heavy traffic, have someone cut in front of me, wouldn't I have to slow down to get a safe & proper following distance? Wouldn't I wind up in some sort of perpetual slowing down state, and turn into a roadblock myself?
All you have to do is look at the traffic, no one really follows at a 3 second distance around here, more like 1 or 2, the one second ones are the tailgaters. If you leave too big a gap like a 4-5 second one, that annoys all the people behind you and they'll try to slingshot around you by going into the right and then switching lanes to jump in front. Of course if there's traffic, they can't do that which leads to eventual road rage...
What I don't really understand is why the left lane hogs continue to do it. It's their action that leads to dead people on the roads. All they have to is move over to let traffic pass. It's like holding the door for the next person. The left lane hog is the one that slams the door in someone else's face and pushes the close door button when they see you coming on the elevator. That's all legal also.