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From: Arif Khokar on 1 Mar 2010 00:26 On 2/28/2010 11:55 PM, Scott in SoCal wrote: > Because, generally speaking, the only people who get tailgated are > blocking the passing lane. Why would anyone waste their time > tailgating someone when the passing lane is available to use? Simple: The tailgater is a duckling. I've seen this happen a number of times when driving on rural highways here. There's very little traffic and, yet, someone is tailgating me in the right lane.
From: Brent on 1 Mar 2010 00:33 On 2010-03-01, Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > OK, now, be honest: how many times have you been tailgated in the > RIGHT lane? Be honest! Speaking of my own experience, I can probably > count the number of such incidents on one hand. All I need to do is come up with some rear-facing mount for my camera and I can have video of it on my next drive to work.
From: Harry K on 1 Mar 2010 11:02 On Feb 28, 9:26 pm, Arif Khokar <akhokar1...(a)wvu.edu> wrote: > On 2/28/2010 11:55 PM, Scott in SoCal wrote: > > > Because, generally speaking, the only people who get tailgated are > > blocking the passing lane. Why would anyone waste their time > > tailgating someone when the passing lane is available to use? > > Simple: The tailgater is a duckling. I've seen this happen a number of > times when driving on rural highways here. There's very little traffic > and, yet, someone is tailgating me in the right lane. Very true on rural 2-lane highways. Traffic always moves in clumps if passing opportunities are few and far between. In those clumps almost _every_ car is tailgating by anyone's reasonalbe definition. Gets kinda amusing to cruising along in one of the gaps and see the brake lights in the clump ahead coming on at the slightest disruption of the conga-line. Harry K
From: John David Galt on 1 Mar 2010 12:54 > The conventional wisdom of those who justify tailgating is: > > 1. If you are "too slow" for them, they have the "right" to tailgate > you, and you must therefore evacuate the lane they want to push you out of. > 2. You are "LLBing" any time you are going slower than they want to > go--even if you are actually passing traffic, you are still slower than > the tailgater. > > No need for any sort of Facebook or other social networking group to > justify slowing down when tailgated--DMV handbooks even recommend > slowing down when tailgated, to allow for more space from the vehicle in > front of the person being tailgated. Whether or not the tailgater gets > "pissed off" is dependent on how much of a MFFY/bully driver they want > to be. When the tailgater represents the majority view -- as is usually true -- he is not the MFFY. The slowpoke is. But even if his view isn't the majority, if there's a farther-right lane for the slower driver to move to, then the tailgater clearly does have right-of-way.
From: Alan Baker on 1 Mar 2010 22:17
In article <jsvoo59va8j7sff4vpadqlfgnja0vpu2g8(a)4ax.com>, Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net> > said: > > >Being tailgated happens plenty of times when one is in the right lane > > Not to me. Riiiiiight. > > You must be doing something wrong. LOL -- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia <http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg> |