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I regularly have people tailgate me when I am driving only 75 mph in a 65 mph area, despite the fact that the person ahead of me is driving the same speed as me so I could not drive any faster even if I wanted to. Fortunately the situation is usually resolved as soon as enough space opens up in the neighboring lane that they can dart past me and tailgate the car in front of me instead.
Cool story, sounds like you're bad at keeping pace. Maybe try using your cruise control
I do use adaptive cruise control. Mysteriously, this does not cause the car in front of me to drive any faster.
Idk if they have the space to get around you it sounds like you were just in the way and angry that someone has the audacity to go around you.
I have no problem with them going around me when space opens up; I have a problem with them doing unsafe things, such as tailgating me until space opens up to pass me and then rushing past with narrow margins, especially when the result is that they only gain a couple of car lengths and just end up tailgating the car in front of me instead.
Idk it sounds like you're bad at keeping pace so people go around you
They literally said "driving only 75 mph in a 65 mph area" meaning they're already speeding excessively and still having other drivers tailgate and pass them for going too slow
Ok sounds like they weren't keeping pace you're not a cop so it's not your job to enforce the speed limit.
Maybe instead of worrying about the other drivers so much you should focus on yourself and learning how to yield.
Why are you being intentionally obtuse?
Nobody should be peer pressured into breaking the law, especially when the risk can be literally life or death on top of risk of law enforcement interaction (which can be extremely bad for many people. Some jobs literally require zero traffic infractions and check regularly in order to maintain the job. Folks on parole or probation can be sent back to prison for a minor traffic infraction, at risk folks can experience racial profiling during traffic stops which can be deadly)
When it comes to breaking the law, everyone has a risk tolerance. Some folks that's zero and they will follow every law they can, some will accept some risk of a minor fine but not more, and some will risk everything regularly. Just because you want to speed excessively doesn't mean anyone else is obligated to enable you
If people want to pass you you're inherently not keeping Pace what do you think keeping Pace means?
How do you not understand that you're not a cop and you don't get to decide how other people act? Why are you being intentionally obtuse?
This entire thread is full of bad driver self-reporting about how much they stare into the rear view instead of looking forward.
So if someone wants to run a red light but isn't first in line everyone should start running the red too so that they can run it? That's basically what you're demanding with your gospel of Keeping Pace
Or if we want to make this even more extreme (and less good of an analogy), if I see someone pouring drugs into a girl's drink I should do absolutely nothing because I'm not a cop?
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Why are you doing that redditor thing where you bring up a random hypothetical that makes no sense as if it's a good refute?
Just yield dude it's not hard. You should really try to not let your ego do the driving because you make the roads more unsafe when you fuck up the flow of traffic.