What do you do when you're driving and someone is tailgating you? (ticket, street)

[cokatie]

This is what should happen to all idiots in the fast lane who are meandering along at their own desired rate of speed:


Cop Screws with Slow Driver in the Fast Lane - YouTube

[s13]

Originally Posted by cokatie

This is what should happen to all idiots in the fast lane who are meandering along at their own desired rate of speed:


Cop Screws with Slow Driver in the Fast Lane - YouTube

One of my favorite videos ever, someone get that fine officer a donut

If cops spent less time writing crap speeding tickets and more time pulling over people like that, the roads would be a whole lot safer and happier.

[ClarkStreetKid]

Would have been better if the idiot with the camera got stopped for negligent driving.

[kayfouroh]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

Would have been better if the idiot with the camera got stopped for negligent driving.

looks like it's the passenger

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by cokatie

This is what should happen to all idiots in the fast lane who are meandering along at their own desired rate of speed:


Cop Screws with Slow Driver in the Fast Lane - YouTube

That was a great find! LOL!

[s13]

Originally Posted by kayfouroh

looks like it's the passenger

Don't let facts get in the way of some good anger. I DEMAND satisfaction.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by LIMA

There is no overidden, if you had enough sense you would know they are all the same, you know what, you should look up the rules on every state and see where they differ for driving. . . .


You'll find they don't, except for commercial weights and lengths

Are you even reading the posts you are answering? He linked to a website that showed different rules of the road by state regarding keeping right. Here's part of the table:

State Keep Right? Law Comments
Alabama slower 32-5A-80(b)
Alaska <SL 13 AAC 002.50(b) Keep right if below speed limit.
Arizona slower 28-721(B)
Arkansas no 27-51-301(b) Law prohibits obstructing traffic by driving continuously in the left lane.
California slower VC 21654(a) "Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits"
Colorado slower* 42-4-1001(2), 42-4-1103(3), 42-4-1013 The left lane is reserved for passing when the speed limit is 65 or higher. State Patrol brochure discussing law
Connecticut slower 14-230(b) Passing on right on Interstate prohibited when only two lanes, 14-233(4)
Delaware slower 21-4114(b)
D.C. slower 18-2201.2
Florida slower 316.081(2) Governor Bush vetoed 2005 SB732, which would have reserved the left lane for passing, saying that drivers blocking the left lane are "cautious and careful."
Georgia slower* 40-6-40(b), 40-6-184(a)(2) If below speed limit in left lane and blocking overtaking traffic, must move right.
Hawaii slower 291C-41(b) Honolulu prohibits driving more than 5 MPH under the limit in the left lane.
Idaho slower 49-630(2)
Illinois yes 625 ILCS 5/11-701(b),(d) Keep right except to pass on limited access highways effective January 1, 2004.
Indiana slower 9-21-8-2(b)
Iowa slower 321.297(2)
Kansas yes 8-1522(c), 8-1514(b) Keep right law effective July 1, 2009 (bill 154 of 2009 session)
Kentucky yes 189.340(7) Only where the speed limit is 65 or 70
Louisiana yes R.S. 32:71 On multilane highways keep right except to pass and move right if blocking overtaking traffic.
Maine yes 29A-2052(6) Only where the speed limit is 65

[LIMA]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

Are you even reading the posts you are answering? He linked to a website that showed different rules of the road by state regarding keeping right. Here's part of the table:

State Keep Right? Law Comments
Alabama slower 32-5A-80(b)
Alaska <SL 13 AAC 002.50(b) Keep right if below speed limit.
Arizona slower 28-721(B)
Arkansas no 27-51-301(b) Law prohibits obstructing traffic by driving continuously in the left lane.
California slower VC 21654(a) "Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits"
Colorado slower* 42-4-1001(2), 42-4-1103(3), 42-4-1013 The left lane is reserved for passing when the speed limit is 65 or higher. State Patrol brochure discussing law
Connecticut slower 14-230(b) Passing on right on Interstate prohibited when only two lanes, 14-233(4)
Delaware slower 21-4114(b)
D.C. slower 18-2201.2
Florida slower 316.081(2) Governor Bush vetoed 2005 SB732, which would have reserved the left lane for passing, saying that drivers blocking the left lane are "cautious and careful."
Georgia slower* 40-6-40(b), 40-6-184(a)(2) If below speed limit in left lane and blocking overtaking traffic, must move right.
Hawaii slower 291C-41(b) Honolulu prohibits driving more than 5 MPH under the limit in the left lane.
Idaho slower 49-630(2)
Illinois yes 625 ILCS 5/11-701(b),(d) Keep right except to pass on limited access highways effective January 1, 2004.
Indiana slower 9-21-8-2(b)
Iowa slower 321.297(2)
Kansas yes 8-1522(c), 8-1514(b) Keep right law effective July 1, 2009 (bill 154 of 2009 session)
Kentucky yes 189.340(7) Only where the speed limit is 65 or 70
Louisiana yes R.S. 32:71 On multilane highways keep right except to pass and move right if blocking overtaking traffic.
Maine yes 29A-2052(6) Only where the speed limit is 65

Whats different.

Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic. The 60 MPH driver in a 55 MPH zone where everybody else is going 65 MPH must move right.

Only 2 states disagree, and guess what happens if you follow the rule of keep right. . . you aren't breaking a rule.
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[LIgirl74]

When I was a teenager I would hit the brakes but now that I am a mother with my baby in the car, I either stay the speed I am going or get into another lane. I try to avoid accidents at all cost now that I have a child riding in the car with me.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by inception937

What do you do when you're driving and someone is tailgating you?

I think you should have given more choices in the poll. The choices you gave were so tame.

For example:

Stop car. Get out. Hit driver's side window of tailgating car with tire iron (which you keep inside your car within reach at all times) and break it. Break tailgating driver's nose and give him/her two black eyes. Storm away.

Now that sounds reasonable to me.