Why do you tailgate?

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Anonymous wrote:To communicate I would like to go faster.

I very rarely tailgate now, kids are teenagers so I try to emulate good driving, but I spent 4 years in Germany and this nit so subtle ‘communication’ took a while to integrate back into the terrible US driving norms.

So pull around me into the passing lane and PASS me!

Why are you tailgating me in the RIGHT lane? You can go around! Why stay behind me? The passing lane’s next to you! Use it!


Why don’t you?

OMG, THIS!!!!!

I can be somewhat sympathetic to someone tailgating on a single lane road.

But a road/highway with multiple lanes? Why????? It makes ZERO sense. They can just go around you. Why do they sit there behind you????

Weird. I’ve only seen tailgating in the left lane. And only when there wasn’t a way around a slow POS.

You don’t live around here then.

I live in the DC area and drive often. No tailgating in the right lane if the left is clear.

Nope, sorry. I get tailgated daily on the DTR in the middle and right lanes, while the leftmost lane is there next to us, available for them to use to pass me any time they want. And it’s not like I’m doing 40mph either. I’m typically doing 60-65, sometimes more. So clearly wanting to go faster isn’t the issue. They could go as fast as they want just by going around me. But they don’t. They’d rather tailgate.

I don’t get it.

If I'm on the DTR and you're going too slow in the leftmost non-HOV lane, I will use the HOV lane to pass you, even though I'm driving alone.

Great, good for you.