Scenario: You are driving 52 in a 45. A car flys up behind you driving way to close. How do you respond? Speed up? Stay the same? Slow Down?
How do you respond to people who don't let faster traffic pass and thus endager everyone on the road?
OP not answering own question is a FAIL. For me, if they're extremely eager to make me speed up and try to get too close, I pretend like I'm going to speed up and turn on my signaling light as if I am to switch lanes, then I just slam on the brakes. Surprised you, didn't, mister Fast and The Furious? macalu meat seasoning?
Assuiming I can't get over (on a one lane road) I slow down to the speed limit. The aggressive drive is creating an unsafe driving condition so I am slowing down to the speed limit.
Even if it's one lane, you can typically slide over to the emergency lane for a moment and let them pass (without forcing them completely into oncoming traffic). It's not required, but it is the courteous thing to do. The person who won't yield to faster traffic isn't necessarily endangering everyone on the road, unless they're going below the minimum speed or something. If someone is driving the speed limit, and the person behind them is driving faster and, in the process of passing the speed limit driver, does so wrecklessly/careless, then it's not the speed limit driver's fault.
Swoly that's nuts. I would think the people that want to race past you are REALLY going to want to race past you, and not have time to stop for a "pump fake", lol.
Move out of the way. I don't understand the mentality some people have when they are in a car. Why exact some inch deep measure of revenge by slamming, or tapping, on your brakes and endangering everyone on the road? Maybe they have a really good reason for speeding. Maybe they have a gun. I'm not asking questions to find out. If they are being especially dangerous or obnoxious, they will get what's coming for them one day, and not in the broader karma way, in the fiery car crash death way. I just don't want to see it.
^ It is one thing to drive like a maniac pushing people aside... and another thing when you're just driving faster, allow the person in front of you to recognize the different in speeds, and courteously allowing the driver in front of you lots of room to decide what to do, without dangerously getting close to their rear end. I'm not moving over for some BULLY. Take your time and give me some space, mister Jack Traven in a bus... (name that movie reference - difficulty: expert)
7 years ago: If I feel my chances of getting pulled over is low, I'll speed up and drive faster if no one's in front of me. Unless they plan on going 120, they wont' be tailgating me. If someone's in front of me, I'd slow down, maybe give a fake pump or two and go back to following the car in front. Now: I'll just speed up until I can change lanes and switch back after they've passed.
I gradually slow down a bit, because I'm usually going at least 5 over the speed limit myself if traffic is flowing that well. I'll move over eventually, but I'm not going to get behind slower cars in the next lane just to let someone pass.
Younger version of me would let them know that they are number one. Current version of me ignores them.
If it's a multilane road, I'll get out of the way. If it's one lane and I'm going at or (more typically) above the speed limit already, you're just going to have to be more patient. I don't like driving on the shoulder. That's where you get nails, etc. in your tires.
If you're going the minimum speed in the fast lane, you are endangering lives. If someone is clearly driving faster than you in the fast lane, you move over when it is safe to do so--it's called defensive driving. Sure, the guy behind you may be reckless, but you not allowing him through is even more reckless.
One lane road? I keep doing what I'm doing, and give way as a safe opportunity arises.... unless he/she pushes it with an attitude problem. Ain't that how yer sposed ta do it in Texas?
