LogFAQs > #984136296

DrizztLink posted...

Yeah, the fact that brake-checking only occurs as a response to tail-gating doesn't make it safe or smart.

It just means it's a stupid and dangerous reaction to someone else's stupid and dangerous behavior.

Tell the people who lost family in the pileup you caused that while they might have a dead sister, it's not your fault, you just drove dangerously as a reaction to someone driving dangerously. I'm sure they'll accept the logic instead of blaming both of you.

This one is good.

Brake checking a tailgater is not a good idea. You want to punish them, just take your foot off the gas. If they are dumb enough to still hit you, the collision will at least not wreck your cars. Otherwise they will usually just pass you.

This seems to actually encourage them to pass you sooner if they can too, which means they are less angry when they pass you, in the event they are one of the especially dangerous road rage tailgaters who are just steaming off into a pressure cooker explosion of the mind if you go fast enough to not pass, but apparently too slow for them.

This is a thing btw. I actively make an effort to make sure I do not maintain speed with adjacent lanes on a highway during normal traffic to AVOID creating annoying walls of cars all going the same speed across all lanes. But sometimes you still see people who refuse to just pass you in a different lane in reasonable traffic until they get proper pissed and just stay a car length or less from you unless you defuse it early by slowing down without brakes until they just pass you before they get any more angry.