To want to let people who drive up your arse hit you?

[Fattynotfitty]

Driving home from work, two occasions had cars driving so closely behind me that if I were to stop suddenly they would hit me no doubt about it. I drive to the speed limit occasionally slightly over and it was raining too!
Sometimes I really want to just slam on my brakes and let them hit me to show them how dangerous it is! ( Of course I wouldn't but am I being unreasonable to want to do it in theory!?) I find it so intimidating and off putting when I'm driving.

I sometimes slow down more, because at a slower pace they are less likely to damage me or car.

If you are driving UNDER the speed limit there is still no justification in tailgating and intimidating. Its a limit, not an average speed. People confuse motorways with other roads. Why aren't people taught this basic distinction in driving tests - it should be drummed into them!

I had this on a motorway that split off two directions when I'd passed my test and had R plates up. An arse hammered up behind me and spent a few mins beeping and gesturing hanging off my bumper before he suddenly twigged he was in the inside lane on the bit going right not in the outside lane for going left and served across the verge splitting the two to change roads.

The outside lane going right was empty so I thought he was just a nutcase but his face when he realised

@Whatsnewpussyhat

If I can I just pull over and let them pass, especially if my kids are in the back because they're the ones who will be hurt if the dickhead goes into the back of me.

To be fair I had taken it as a given noone would risk it if DC were in the car. I would truly hope that didn't need to be clarified (I don't actually think anyone is seriously suggesting they would actually do this )

Flashing your rear fog light sometimes works to back them off.

It depends on the location on your car and whether you can flash them or whether they stay on but that flash of red can fool them into thinking it is your brakes without you having to risk a rear ender.

I loathe bumper stickers but I have one on my car saying ‘the closer you get, the slower I go’ and it actually works! I can clock the exact second they read it as they pull back & slow down.

I’ve had this doing limit on narrow lane, windy, national speed limit road and then seen the bloke (middle aged in a sports car) pulling himself out of his upside down, totalled car shortly after.

I had to call the emergency services for him, very luckily for him, he was ok. Imagine he learned his lesson though.

If someone ‘requests’ from a distance (using their lights), I give way. I drive to the limit or slightly over on motorways sometimes.
I usually give way as a previous poster said. It makes you a Better driver. However, if someone is truly rude, I never give way. It’s fucking rude to nearly bump me in the arse and drive so close to put so many lives in danger. I wish I could say otherwise but I have had those moments where I absolutely refused a wanker.

Just flick the fogs lights on for a second, they will have to brake hard. Keep doing it until the get the message.

I just drive even slower

Years ago I was in a car with someone and they were being tailgated..... they pulled up the handbrake!!
Brake lights don’t show up and the person very nearly rear ended us!
They didn’t luckily but it was enough for them to back away and give space

*I do NOT recommend trying this!!

I hate this. I have a tiny car and it scares me that if I was the slam on for some reason my little car and my DS in the back seat wouldn't stand much of a chance!

So annoying when people do that - there's a stretch of road near us that in the last 10 years has been taken down from a 40 to a 30 and now recently to a 20mph zone - due to a school and lots of children/pedestrians around. Thing is that it can feel actively dangerous driving down there at 20, such is the collective feeling that 20 is too slow - the majority seem to go at about 35 despite lots of flashing warning signs telling them its 20 - if you try and drive even at 25ish people will tailgate, flash you, beep, overtake where there really isn't space, so you feel forced to either break the limit or accept/risk lunacy occurring. I try and pull over any time I have someone behind me but it's a busy road so you'd be pulling over sometimes 3 or 4 times until you get out of the 20 zone - I just avoid that road altogether and go the long way around now. Thing is you only save maybe 2 mins by going at 30 rather than 20 so don't know why people can't just chill a bit?

Saying that, the worse are drivers who are putting on their break every few seconds when it is absurely not required to break leading to your car constantly getting closer to the car in front.

Drivel. No matter how the car in front is being driven, it's up to you and your driving skills to remain a safe distance behind.

I get this urge too. I also get an urge, when someone is speeding up my road, to step out from between parked cars and give them a shock that they very nearly ran me over. (I don't do this, but I'd like to.)

I have put on my hazard lights a couple of times because I have been genuinely concerned The person would hit me. On each occasion the person has backed off immediately.

Someone hit me up the back

I rolled 7 times. Landed on my roof. Airbag failed to go off. It took them 5 hours to cut me out.

It was horrific. I had such bad nightmares it took me 2 years to even get in a car. All because I had to do an emergency stop and he had been too close.

I bare the scars of that forever.

@Fattynotfitty

Driving home from work, two occasions had cars driving so closely behind me that if I were to stop suddenly they would hit me no doubt about it. I drive to the speed limit occasionally slightly over and it was raining too! Sometimes I really want to just slam on my brakes and let them hit me to show them how dangerous it is! ( Of course I wouldn't but am I being unreasonable to want to do it in theory!?) I find it so intimidating and off putting when I'm driving.

I just slow right down if people are driving too close.

Usually, they get the message and hang back. I figure if they are going to hit me, better at 25 mph.

There's always others who think their need to get somewhere as quickly as possible is the most important thing.
We have lots of 20mph roads around here and some people drive right up your arse as they want to go faster. Thing is a 30mph limit they would do the same.
I was on the A1 in the summer at a point where it's 3 lanes. I was in the middle lane doing 70ish overtaking a load of lorries. A bloke suddenly drove right up behind me for what felt like ages (I was still overtaking) and started flashing his lights and was waving his arms about. I pulled back left once passed the lorries and he passed me. It was all very aggressive as he could have overtaken me in the right hand lane but didn't. Arsehole.

Glad I'm not alone in this thought!
What I dont understand is how people feel safe driving so close to another car. If for some reason I do find myself too close e.g a car pulls out infront of me and is going slow I immediately put space between us as I don't feel safe being that close to another car. It's just an accident waiting to happen.

I get idiots doing this to me all the time on the 20mph roads near my house. I had one the other day right ony tail as I was doing 20mph on my road, to have him start honking and flashing when I indicated left and slowed to turn into my driveway. Prat.

The safest thing you can do is slow down gradually. The slower you are moving, the less serious the potential accident is likely to be. Pull over to let them pass when you can do so safely. Some arseholes tailgate so closely that it is nigh on impossible to pull over for them!

@Happyheartlovelife that sounds horrific
If only people could think about the consequences of their actions. Karma needs to exist for people like the driver who hit you.

And just like with todders, ignore the tantrums - the honking, flashing, gesturing. Just drive slow and safe until you can let the twat pass.

If I get tailgated I usually just slow down as much as possible and if they don't get the message to back off I start tapping my breaks.

Luckily after 25 years of driving I've never had a really aggressive driver, a bit of swearing and gesticulating but no one has tried to run me off the road so maybe I've just been lucky.

What is much more fun is to just ease of the gas so that you slow down gradually.

The tailgating tossers don't realise initially, as there are no brake lights to warn them, and suddenly realise that they're getting closer and closer and have to brake themselves. This was recommended to me by a police driving instructor, and it's great fun. After it's happened a couple of times, they back right off, too.

On one occasion, a young blonde woman screamed that I was "a complete fucking cunt" and that I shouldn't be on the road, as she overtook me dangerously, nearly clipped an oncoming car, and knocked a few months off the life of her tyres by wheelspinning like mad.