🚀 go-pugleaf

cogman@cyberenet.net (Friend ) wrote:

>Jeff Schwartz (jatco@nospamix.netcom.com) wrote:  : The best device for
>discouraging tailgaters is the one just above your neck : located directly
>between your ears. It is without a doubt that the person : doing the
>tailgating is totally absolutely wrong as there is no excuse for : it ever
>but turning this potential life threatening situation into some kind : of
>confrontation is really stupid - plain and clear. Using that spongy :
>material we have all been given and keeping the peace is my weapon of
>
>Well said. If I am being tailgated while I am in the left lane, I move to
>the right lane and let the driver pass. If I am already in the right lane,
>I gently slow down to a point where the tailgater gets frustrated and
>passes me on the left. I definitely don't slow down quickly because that
>will risk causing an accident and/or pissing off the tailgater. I am a
>relatively fast driver so I usually don't get tailgated and I don't hog up
>passing lanes, but when I do get tailgated, this strategy has never let me
>down. 

All of this argument discounts that there may not just be one
tailgater behind you, but 20. I would not slow down for no reason in
that case.