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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, only about half of tailgaters are doing it on purpose, i.e. aggressively.  The other half are just shitty drivers who don't realize they need to leave enough room.  They are the car equivalent of people who stand too close to you when you talk, or will choose the bathroom stall right next to yours when there's plenty of others available.

Dealing with aggressive, asshole-ish driver behavior makes me be a much nicer, more patient driver.  Every time someone does something bad to me, I let more people in.  Pay it forward.[/quote]

This times a million! I have to drive to work now and it amazes me that people don't understand that you have to leave some space to brake between cars. I've seen two accidents over the past month that were basically caused by following too closely and rear ending someone while they were braking suddenly (because - traffic).

The annoying thing is that these idiots make traffic worse by creating more accidents, which drive people to drive even more aggressively. It's an awful cycle.[/quote]

Exactly.  It's especially bad with west coast drivers.  For some reason the culture of the west coast, for reasons I cannot figure out, really is cool with cars following each other within like 4 feet.

It took me a while, being a native DC resident, to not be constantly wondering what the deal was with west coast drivers (and this is obviously more intense and less intense in certain cities/regions along the west coast- but certainly as a hold the coast does this more than the east coast) and why EVERYONE was tailgating me before I finally realized that's just how it is.

I would see long lines of cars all going 60 mph and leaving maybe 3-4 feet between them.  None of them are tailgating, that's just how it is.

So that's the thing... different people have different driving styles.  You could assume someone is tailgating you and they are just thinking they are keeping up with the flow of traffic. [/quote]

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