What do you do when you're tailgated?

[alecrain]

I'd just like to know :
What do you do when you're tailgated?
What do you do when you see another driver talking on the phone or reading (newspaper on the steering wheel)?

[4Vman]

Get out of their way and let them go past..
Its safer and much less hassle to swallow your pride and move over than argue over a rear ender even though you're in the right.

[charles_wif_xf]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

Get out of their way and let them go past..
Its safer and much less hassle to swallow your pride and move over than argue over a rear ender even though you're in the right.

Before I do that, I flip 'em the bird.

[EF Futura 07]

Originally Posted by alecrain

I'd just like to know :
What do you do when you're tailgated?
or reading (newspaper on the steering wheel)?

Take Foot off throttle and just keep slowing down (dont hit the brakes) and when they are just about to overtake, NAIL it and dont let them :evil3:

As for reading newpapers tell them what you think (i do : )

[alecrain]

I usually let them go if there is additional lane for me to move but sometimes I'm being tailgated on a narrow road and even tough I'm already going ~5km over the limit. In those cases (making sure it's safe) I start slowing down- they really get mad when I get down to ~20km under the limit (only for few seconds) and then speed up to my previous speed- this usually make them drive bit further behind me.

[clontarf_x]

Tailgated: gradually slow down, slow enough for them to not realise I am actually slowing down... eventually when I've gone from 100km/hr to 60km/hr they kind of get the idea... and rush off overtaking me at full throttle. Waste your fuel and work yourselves up guys, I'm in no rush

On Phone: Don't really care as long as they seem to be concentrating on the road at the same time. If they are moving around inside their lane or driving without due care, I'll give them a blast of the horn and a flash of the hi-beams

Book/Newspaper: Nothing... Darwin Theory will work it's magic eventually :/

[fmc351]

Depends, is the rear of my car already in need of a new bumper?


Oh its a joke people. Or is it? :Reverend:


Let em pass and not give it another thought.

[paule11]

I get out of the way pull over especially for truck drivers who are probably on amphetamines.

When I see someone talking on the phone gong slow and wandering over the road I wish I was a cop .

Reading a news paper I look at them as if they have 2 heads tell them what I think of them

[Daymoe]

Slam on the brakes and see the other person screaming and squirming in pain from smashing their face on the steering wheel and worse.....

But then when i told dad to do that he told me no L :(

Jokes.

[steevo d]

start slowing by 10 k's, then back to limit, then down by 15k's, back to limit, down by 20 k's, over a couple of k's it drives em nuts, usually they'll sit back until they can overtake.

[V3RSAC3]

Originally Posted by clontarf_x

Tailgated: gradually slow down, slow enough for them to not realise I am actually slowing down... eventually when I've gone from 100km/hr to 60km/hr they kind of get the idea... and rush off overtaking me at full throttle. Waste your fuel and work yourselves up guys, I'm in no rush

On Phone: Don't really care as long as they seem to be concentrating on the road at the same time. If they are moving around inside their lane or driving without due care, I'll give them a blast of the horn and a flash of the hi-beams

Book/Newspaper: Nothing... Darwin Theory will work it's magic eventually :/

same pretty much ... just slow down .. it's the best thing to do, that way if you ARE re-ended it's not so bad ...

as for reading ... yeah i give them the horn if they're all over the road, but instead of flashing my highbeams i give the LED's abit of a flash ... scares the SH!T out of them!

[svo347]

Depends on what mood im in...
From putting my foot flat and watching them disappear in the distance
Turning my lights on and them thinking im braking
And if they are really persistant and very annoying, Ill flick an unlit ciggie out the window

[prydey]

just ignore them. i tend to concentrate on looking through the big bit of glass in front of me whilst still checking the mirrors to be aware of my surroundings.

if someone wants to sit up my tail, good luck to them.

why slow down???? its only going to aggravate the situation. people that get rattled by other driver's behaviour are just as bad.

here's another question! how many people sit out in the right hand lane in 80+ zones but are not overtaking? how many people whilst sitting out in the right hand lane get annoyed with people up their tail? which is worse, the person tailgating or the person in the right hand lane. both are illegal.

keep left unless overtaking (which is mandatory in 80+ zones) is a forgotten law it seems and is far more annoying/frustrating to me than someone tailgating!!

[Deadman]

Originally Posted by alecrain

I'd just like to know :
What do you do when you're tailgated?

I had a commodore wagon with their lights on (during the day of course) tailgating me about an inch behind me through a 60km/h zone where there's a permanent speed camera : (if anyone knows the area - it's on the way from byron to ballina - before you get to that big hill).

Well, I made sure I did about 58km/h through the 60km/h area, and just as it hits 100km/h at the start of a massive and very steep hill (and also splits back out in to two lanes) - i put my foot down as he went out to overtake and left him for dust. Of course, I sat at about 100-102km/h the whole way up the hill, and by the time he eventually caught up when we started going down the other side, it had gone back to one lane and he was back behind me. But I think he got the hint and he stayed off my tail. I was doing the speed limit and staying in the left lane - not my fault his car struggles up hills ;)

To answer your question - I don't usually do anything but ignore them - they can go around me. But the above happened to me today on my way down to Ballina and I thought it was amusing

Originally Posted by alecrain

What do you do when you see another driver talking on the phone or reading (newspaper on the steering wheel)?

I stay away from them so they don't hit me :P

[Booka]

Originally Posted by EF Futura 07

Take Foot off throttle and just keep slowing down (dont hit the brakes) and when they are just about to overtake, NAIL it and dont let them :evil3:

As for reading newpapers tell them what you think (i do : )

Hahaha that’s exactly what I do, mind you mum dose go nucking futs but its so funny they go berserk

[DBourne]

man some of u ppl are the reason there are accidents, yeah tailgaters suck but just let them go (if able to).

if im in the left lane and someone is tailgating me and its a 2 lane road i dont do anything, its their job to go around me.

if i see someone on the phone i sorta snort @ them, but someone reading the paper i really hate

[ingall9]

I used to get all worked up myself and tap the brakes etc, give them the bird but the next day some other clown would do it so i gave up. I drive a Land Rover Discovery most of the time, the missus drives the falcon, so i go by the motto "My tow bar is stronger than your radiator". If they hit me, the wreck their car, not mine. :

I was heading into lithgow a while back and as i do kept looking in the mirror to make sure no one is to close incase i need to hit the brakes for something. Nothing is there, i round a slight corner in the road and look in my side mirror and there is a P-plater in a ute so close i can not see him in the rear view mirror, his ute was hidden nicely behind the spare tyre, and this was on duel carriage way so its not like he couldnt overtake.

[Steffo]

Depends on the situation. Its either slow down... or not care.

[RockyF75]

Drive at the posted speed limit. Whats in the mirror is in the past man, forget about it

[bingoTE50]

I have done a number of things over the years , some things i should not have done , these days I tend to move over or stick to the speed I was doing.
As for phones or papers , bloody annoys me if I can see it is affecting their driving.
My pet hate is kids with no seatbelts on ,I have seen this in QLD a bit lately ,bloody ridiculous .
And smokers , use the damn ashtray not the road !!!!!!

[Geez Louise]

Originally Posted by bingoTE50

I have done a number of things over the years , some things i should not have done , these days I tend to move over or stick to the speed I was doing.
As for phones or papers , bloody annoys me if I can see it is affecting their driving.
My pet hate is kids with no seatbelts on ,I have seen this in QLD a bit lately ,bloody ridiculous .
And smokers , use the damn ashtray not the road !!!!!!

Here Here!! I can't stand people who throw there butts out of the window! I am a smoker and I always put my butts in a bin! It is a MAJOR TURNOFF! Stop littering my planet! As for kids without seatbelts, I don't start the car unless my passengers have their belts done up. My car was hit in the rear end by a 19yr old girl who was talking on her mobile and was too close at the time. My brand new car! Her car was totalled and luckily for me, my car has a towbar so the damage was minimal but the police said if I wasn't wearing my seatbelt I would have been implanted in the windscreen! Think people...think!

[Ives]

Fluctuate travel speed.

[asusdragon]

start of buy slowing down a bit if that keep doing get them pretty close and slam the breaks the accelrate really quick works well i think, never had anyone do it too me but hey it works expect on one chick who stop then bout 5 kms up the rd did it agian then decided to go in the left lane, and on the rear of the car was a yellow sign "baby on board" that really ****ed me off agian

[DDXR6T]

I normally just Tip-T drop it to first and blast to 85-90km/h ... They normally stay back after that.

A mate had a Turbocharged LPG G200 charade. And, had an LPG flame thrower on the back - LOL. Used it once for a small spurt to a idiot in a merc.

[One Drone]

It's a fact of life, some people don't even know what tailgating is and what can happen if they do! Just slow down and increase the gap of the car in front of you, so that when you need to make an emergency brake, you have more room to watch your back and make sure they don't hit you.

[T_Terror]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

Get out of their way and let them go past..
Its safer and much less hassle to swallow your pride and move over than argue over a rear ender even though you're in the right.

+1

never had probs

[Van D]

Originally Posted by charles_wif_xf

Before I do that, I flip 'em the bird.

+1. Seriously.

[Van D]

Anyone here use the trick of pointing the window washers up so when you squirt them it goes over your car into the one tailgating? I remember reading some people doing it somewhere.. lol

[xyef351]

depends, If im driving the family wagon 4 instance i would brake hard and while indicating to turn and let him hit then i,d roll round in pain 4 a while, then comes $ 4 my new family wagon and he would b the idiot that should off followed road rules.

[BigAL_250]

I remember someone i don't know, but remembered, that had his washer tube hanging beside the door so he could aim it at other drivers. I think it was more likely there to create problems rather than dealing with them though.