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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, stop blaming the driver in front of you.  I’ve been tailgated in the far right-hand lane going at or above the speed limit.

Secondly, tailgating me will make me go slower, not faster.  I will want more room between me and the car ahead of me so that if they do something unexpected I have more reaction time so that I can hopefully avoid slamming on my brakes and getting rear-ended by my tailgater.  Moreover, if my tailgater does rear-end me, I want the extra room in front of me to hopefully avoid a chain reaction where I get pushed into the car in front.[/quote]

If you are driving slower than the rest of the traffic in the left lane, you need to move over. You will just as easily cause an accident as someone who is tailgating you. [/quote]

If you re-read my post you will see that I have been tailgated in the [b]far right lane.[/b]. Moreover, I generally go with the speed of traffic, at or above the speed limit.  Maybe instead of tailgating, the person who wants to go faster than the speed of traffic can move left, but that still wouldn’t accomplish much, because traffic would still be moving at about the same speed.

That’s why I said tailgaters should stop blaming the drivers that are ahead of them.  From my experience, tailgating has very little to do with speed or lane choice, and is more about a driver’s impatience and frustration which they choose to express as a threat to the driver directly in front of them.  It’s like a schoolyard bully making themselves feel more powerful by picking on someone else.  Unfortunately, when you combine the weight of motor vehicles with the speed of traffic, the consequences for salving an overblown ego can be deadly.

I’ve been frustrated, myself, behind slow traffic.  Once, I was stuck for a long time on a narrow road behind a bicycle riding in the middle of the lane with too much oncoming traffic to pass.  I can relate to the frustration which is why even though I drive with the flow of traffic, I move over for faster traffic.  However, whichever lane or speed I’m driving, I keep in mind that SAFETY is the top priority.  Getting in an accident will definitely delay my arrival, and could mean that I don’t get to my destination at all (or that someone else doesn’t, which matters even more  to me, but maybe not to self-centered tailgaters).[/quote]

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