Back off Jack...

I also get angry. Don't misunderstand me. Hell when I was younger I was the one doing the tailgating waiting for a opening to simply leave the herd behind. Evidently Darwin has made his selections and I thank not just God but also Bendix braking systems while prostrating myself at the steps leading to same. I did not make friends with my way way way back then. And you wonder why I sometimes give dispatchers a very hard time. You young ones have laws in place now than we ever so did have not in our time.

 

I sometimes knock her down to 58 then 53 or so and hold it. Might take a pack of smokes and a litany of butchered songs but they will get around sooner or later. Just the matter of how violently and making sure where possible there is no nice family in front of me when they do finally snap.

Does that not make you warm and fuzzy inside? Thinking three or four steps ahead before you even allow yourself to rage at me? Im already there, considered and am over it.

 

All I know is this aggressive driving thing has really gotten out of hand and it is just the 4 wheelers.

 

Isnt

 

Saw a bumper sticker last week that read "Courtesy Prevents Accidents".

There would also be less road rage if people were more courteous.

 

I started driving at 65 or slower depending on how heavy traffic was and the weirdest thing happened. The tailgating diminished, as did my stress level. I'm not sure why this is.
There it is. Don't run with the idiots.

 

I once cut traffic in Baltimore to dominate and allow space for a group of about 30 club bikers and their support vehicle so that the tunnels will be organized for them. It worked out well. Just had to throw that trailer around a little bit to physically clear out the more pesky cars. It's amazing how a wiggle makes a whole line of pushy rush hour types give you plenty of room. The bikers and support vehicle needed a little bit of room and that was all they ever wanted. Im pretty sure that after a few of us make it happen for them, we would be given thanks later at the dinner table. But that's not why we did what we did. One person is not always nice. A herd of people who are not nice to begin with becomes a REAL problem. As does a bunch of billy bobs and wrecking johnnys.

 

When ever I run in socal, or any place that has heavy traffic that is a slow or stop and go. i try to use this method. It works.

I call it the moving hole theory.

If you watch the traffic, brake lights are the key, you will see this hole open and close in the traffic.
What makes the hole is the stop, then go. Cars rush up to the stopped vehicle in front of them, stand on the brake, leaving a hole behind them, the next car does the same thing. this hole moves at a specific speed. Say 21 MPH, Merging traffic will really not change this. So you watch and time this moving hole, match your speed to it. you will almost never have to stop, and at a point, you will be the front of the line, able to use the hole for space.

 

Leave yourself an out. One of the 5 keys.

Space cushion. Increase the amount of time you have to do to something when it goes bad.

Tell people all the time. If you wanna play this game you must be willing to let all the bad drivers in the known universe flow around you, cause as soon as you don't, you will be involved in an accident.

It's amazed me for decades how we tolerate the " Oh well " that happens attitude of people killed and maimed in traffic accidents.

Guy goes to war that's a trained professional soldier, gets killed, IT'S A F OUTRAGE!!!!!!

Somebodies mom gets put in a wheelchair for the rest of her life by some twit in big truck or drunk driver, it's a footnote on the news, just a statistic.

And all the bad drivers aren't F MORONS either. That is the problem that many of you my friends have, with that mindset. They are bad drivers. They might be the nicest or smartest people in the world, but they are really bad drivers. And until some people that are really important get killed and maimed, and the government decides some actual skill and accountability is required in your driving privilege, we are stuck with them.

 

18's and 4's alike, people think it can't happen to them. It can and it does but you can't tell them anything so F them. I say everyone except kids gets what they deserve in life. The 4 that got crushed shouldn't have taken the stopping distance away and the truck should've backed off and slowed down.