To think that tailgating is a fool's game?

[smudgethepuppydog]

Especially when the driver that you are tailgating is displaying 'L' plates. I have a good mind to phone the company of the white van woman and complain. DS was driving within the speed limit and conditions, we were on a single carriageway road in a national speed limit zone, he was doing 60mph but I couldn't even see the front bumper of the van because it was so far up his arse, poor lad. is it only me that gives learner drivers a bit more space and some leeway as I am aware they may well feel very nervous and hassled if I sit too close to them?

oh, well done smudge's puppy!

Applause for AMumInScotland

Anyone seen Lost Highway? Extreme tailgater gets more than he expected...

I have seriously considered re-setting my screen washers so they miss my car and hit a short distance behind my car - or install an oil release mechanism a la 'stop the pigeon' (or whatever it was called, Mutley) style

I slow down for tailgaters too - plenty where I live.

Mind there's plenty more twats out there.

i hate people who dont get stopping distances. FFS do they want to end up in a&e? i touch my brakes but i agree that a learner shouldnt do that. If it was a really bad dangerous situation, i would pull in and let the eejit pass

ickletickle - if there was another lane, I'd pul into it - I get seriously annoyed at middle-lane-drifters as well as tailgaters! But most of the tailgating I suffer from is on a single lane road, or else on a 2-lane motorway when I am already overtaking slow lorries. I try to pull back in to the left lane where it's realistic, but when its chokka with lorries doing 56mph there's really only one lane available for the rest of us.

thats what i meant, if there is another lane, ffs just pull over into it. i see no benefit from further riling (sp?) a tosser and quite frankly if someone starts driving dangerously (as listed in some of the posters) then it doesnt really make you much better than them.

and well dont smudgepuppy on a further step towards your own freedom. i have at least 16.5 years to go!

ickletickle, I don't understand why you are assuming that in any of the situations mentioned there was another lane to move into, but that the driver concerned chose to annoy the tailgater instead

So - do you think a driver should be forced to pull over between nose-to-tail lorries doing 56mph, rather than be allowed to overtake them at 70mph, just because some arsehole is tailgating them? I don't think anyone on here is suggesting that we should deliberately stay out in a lane we have no need to be in, just to piss off the tailgaters . But we have a right to use the road too, and to overtake slow lorries at a sensible speed.

I hardly travel on any roads with an extra lane to pull into. I too always drive at the speed limit, so 28-30mph in a built up area. I agree with making sure there's plenty of space in front to protect you if they do go into you.

It's a speed LIMIT, not a speed GOAL!!

Sometimes, it isn't safe to do 30 or whatever (snow, blind corners, lord knows what)

I touch the brakes with my left foot, so the lights go on but no speed is lost - very tricky for a learner though (infact, I only learned last week when my mum showed me how!)

i have said IF there is another lane.