And you would risk injuring yourself why? I don't engage in brake checking behavior because I don't enjoy chronic pain. Regardless of whether I think I would win in some possible trial.
Causing someone to slam into the back of you to show how they are being unsafe just seems like a really odd way to prove your point.
No
More no.
Pretty much this.
Doesn't matter who is in the wrong, if you're tailgated/tailgaitting and there is an accident, the tailgater will be at fault almost every time.
One of the very first things my father stressed to me when I was learning to drive long ago.
However, if you camp at a stop sign and don't go, and everyone behind you just has to sit and wait, you're going to make them angry and it's pretty shitty to say their anger is their own fault.
No you're doing something that will make reasonable people angry. Camping in the left lane and obstructing traffic will make just about anybody angry, which is why left lane camping is illegal almost everywhere.
positivedoppler said:did he break to mess with the tailgater or did he break to change lanes?
cbrunny said:agree the break check is wrong and insane.
TheVrolok said:Tailgating is retarded.. break checking is equally retarded.
ImplusE69 said:....refuses to get over slams on their breaks to try to prove a point
Capt Caveman said:Nope. What the break-checker did can be constituted as road-rage.
Ok we may not be able to agree on who was more at fault here, but can we at least agree that some people here need a lesson in remedial spelling?
Ok we may not be able to agree on who was more at fault here, but can we at least agree that some people here need a lesson in remedial spelling?
he could have just merged to the right, which is exactly what he does after stepping on the brake!
This guy wasn't camping in the left lane.
He brake checked which made it obvious he was willing to obstruct traffic while occupying a lane that many states forbid obstructing traffic in. In Illinois, you only have 1/4 mile to make a pass in the left lane. Yes, I know may not have gotten over immediately because of merging traffic, but he likely should have gotten over before hand.
The entire point of the law is to keep people out of the lane and to get them out of it before they're stuck there causing a traffic jam.
Yes, the guy couldn't move over immediately because of merging traffic; however, it's plain as day that the car in front was past the merging vehicle when he slammed on the brakes. (In fact, it looks like the other guy was far enough past that he could've moved over too, but it would be considered an unsafe lane change given the distance.) In other words, instead of being an asshole, he could have just merged to the right, which is exactly what he does after stepping on the brake!
You know things about this situation that are not on camera. How?
Ok we may not be able to agree on who was more at fault here, but can we at least agree that some people here need a lesson in remedial spelling?
There's nothing in the video to indicate that the brake checker was camping out in the left lane. Nothing. He is passing a truck and allowing another vehicle to merge, during the time he is being aggressively tailgated.
The only bad behavior evident in the video is the tailgating, followed by the brake check.
In Illinois, anything more than 1/4 mile in the left lane is 'camping'. Unless the driver was in the right lane and merged into the left lane right before the video started, then one can reasonably assume it's very possible that the driver was camping.
Ok we may not be able to agree on who was more at fault here, but can we at least agree that some people here need a lesson in remedial spelling?
In Illinois, anything more than 1/4 mile in the left lane is 'camping'. Unless the driver was in the right lane and merged into the left lane right before the video started, then one can reasonably assume it's very possible that the driver was camping.
In Illinois, anything more than 1/4 mile in the left lane is 'camping'. Unless the driver was in the right lane and merged into the left lane right before the video started, then one can reasonably assume it's very possible that the driver was camping.
How does Illinois reconcile a left lane camping law with a 65mph speed limit?
In Illinois, anything more than 1/4 mile in the left lane is 'camping'. Unless the driver was in the right lane and merged into the left lane right before the video started, then one can reasonably assume it's very possible that the driver was camping.
Well if you believe assault, potentially with a deadly weapon (a car), is legal then yes what you have stated is true.