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Except when people are in a high stress environment, such as being tailgated by a lunatic, mistakes happen. Camera's don't capture that.

It's your responsibility as a driver to maintain your own emotions and consider the safety of those around you. Break checking doesn't make anyone safer.

What am I supposed to think about people going to bat for tailgaters?

If you see somebody tailgating it's obvious who's the problem.

If you see somebody hit their brakes unless you can read minds how can you know exactly why they hit their brakes?

This is obvious shit here.

Except when people are in a high stress environment, such as being tailgated by a lunatic, mistakes happen. Camera's don't capture that.

I never once have advocated for people to brake check. I'm saying it would be next to non existent without tailgaters.

Lol, it's rich hearing somebody say this about somebody who hits their brakes while being tailgated. Tell me, who's the problem? The person making a mistake in a high stress environment or the person causing the high stress environment to exist in the first place?

Brake checking would not happen without tailgaters. No debating that.

Nobody will see that as a justification for brake checking. They'll just split the fault accordingly. If we're talking about a situation where the person behind is going even further beyond and actively trying to hurt/damage the car in front with other roadrage tactics (like aggressively staying behind them even if they try to pull over to let the tailgater pass), then that'd be a different scenario.

You can just read our previous exchange if you forgot, but if you just want to have emotions at me, maybe don't.

I'm sorry but no, there's no situation where there's any excuse for the tailgater. Nobody going the speed limit should be forced to pull over to let some lunatic who shouldn't have a license pass them. Back the fuck off, you never know when somebody is going to have to hit the brakes. You're causing the whole situation when you tailgate making everybody on the road unsafe. You never know when the person in front of you is going to hit the brakes and it shouldn't matter if they do because you should be far enough back that you can safely stop.

Also as I keep repeatedly saying in this thread because I'm sure some of you need to hear it? I expressly have said nobody should brake check. My whole point though is you never know if somebody is brake checking or pressing their brakes for a more legitimate reason and no your camera cannot determine that.

Back off and slow down.

But you can know. That's a silly justification. If you have a proper camera feed, you can see the road conditions ahead and insurance adjusters can use that to determine fault. You're acting like Schrdinger's brake checker is a thing.

No, you can't know. How do you know somebody is brake checking you vs being in a high stress situation causing them to make a mistake?

I don't care what insurance adjusters end up deciding, they'll always try to go with whatever makes the company the most money. I'm talking about you, how do you know what caused them to hit the brakes? How do you know they maliciously brake checked vs made a mistake while stressing out because you're dangerous and reckless driving?

People don't just stomp on the brakes because they're a little stressed. That's not a thing that happens. You're making up a scenario to feed your weird need to act like there's justification for that shit. "Both are bad. Brake checkers are worse." "Both are bad. Tailgaters are worse." Either is a fine opinion to have, but this tailgaters are the only bad ones, think about the poor brake checkers, shit is just weird.

fuck off and drive like a normal person or just stick to transit.

Pot, meet kettle.

Stop tailgating people, you're going to get people killed.

I don't tailgate...
Tailgaters get people killed
Break checkers will get people killed
Doesn't matter who stated it
Two wrongs don't make a right
Simple

People when stressed out absolutely can hit the brakes. They keep looking in their mirrors, stressing out, mirror, road, mirror, road, mirror, road, they panic, think for a moment they see something on the road even if there's nothing there and they hit the brakes. Or hell, maybe they had a mild stroke or chest pains brought on by the stress. You just don't fucking know so back the fuck off and drive like a normal person or just stick to transit.

I don't tailgate...
Tailgaters get people killed
Break checkers will get people killed
Doesn't matter who stated it
Two wrongs don't make a right
Simple

Sure you don't bud, that's why you don't like me pointing out that you don't know why somebody is hitting their brakes even after I repeatedly say people shouldn't brake check.

this is 5yo logic, cmon

I'm not saying anything that should be controversial except to people who feel attacked.

Tell that to the judge. See how it goes.

Sure you don't bud, that's why you don't like me pointing out that you don't know why somebody is hitting their brakes even after I repeatedly say people shouldn't brake check.

I'm not saying anything that should be controversial except to people who feel attacked.

Nemu, no, it's not my person experience but it's absolutely shit people deal with. My point is you don't know why the person is hitting the brakes so back the fuck off. You don't know if somebody is brake checking you or any number of other reasons. Don't cause a situation where it matters.

precisely no one is advocating or defending tailgating

Sure you don't bud, that's why you don't like me pointing out that you don't know why somebody is hitting their brakes even after I repeatedly say people shouldn't brake check.

I'm not saying anything that should be controversial except to people who feel attacked.

Nemu, no, it's not my person experience but it's absolutely shit people deal with. My point is you don't know why the person is hitting the brakes so back the fuck off. You don't know if somebody is brake checking you or any number of other reasons. Don't cause a situation where it matters.

Some people won't acknowledge that tailgating is the root of the problem, however.

Two wrongs don't make a right

the topic at hand is about people intentionally brake checking

the topic at hand is about people intentionally brake checking

If you think it's controversial to say to not tailgate people because you don't know when or why somebody might hit the brakes then you're a lost fucking cause. I'm out, my point is clear except to people who refuse to understand it.

If this is personal experience, I'd suggest therapy. Either way, if that person exists, they're a horrible driver to experience all of that in the five to fifteen seconds that it would take to merge into the right lane on the highway or pull over to the shoulder when it's safe on a normal road. And even if someone does accidentally brake check, what does that matter? Should the 1% of freak accidents do anything to negate the fault of the 99% of retaliatory assholes?

Look who's back with their "just move out of the tailgater's way" schtick