Brake check.  Mine's bigger than yours and I have full coverage.

Call 911.  Tailgating is more egregious than McDonalds forgetting to supersize my order in the drive-thru.

Depends on the tailgater.

Lots of traffic on a busy highway - ignore the asshole. Two lane country roads at night..... well, then It's game on........

I pull over and let 'em pass.

If I can move right I move.
If not IDGAF a large portion of the time I have a 3/16 plate steel bumper with multiple gussets designed with anglen that will likely direct most impacts down and failing that I have eight feet of bed to absorb the impact. I just hope they have insurance to pay for the damages if they cause an accident.

So far in life I've been tailgated many times and never has it become my problem.

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Depends

3 lane freeway with me in the far right lane (with no exits with-in miles) and no other traffic and I have a tailgater on my ass? Slow down. I have gotten down to 30mph with some idiot ragging for about a mile. I had more time than he had patience/control that day...

I keep driving. Let them figure out where to pass as long as I am not blocking the passing lane

Special little snowflake you are.

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The problem is there is a big lineup of you turd-heads that do this bullshit "safe following distance" crap behind the lead assmunch who has NOBODY in front of him.... and the rest of you lemmings just get in line, and justify blocking the left lane because (said in your most nasal voice possible) "someone is in front of me and I am maintaining a safe following distance".


Get out of the left lane, gramps.

I usually turn on my window washers.

But you ARE blocking the passing lane.

He is right, gramps.

Hard to say, depens is the guy/gal being a dick or just in a rush?  If seen comming up weaving through traffic I might move to let him by.

I hate tailgaters!

And as Idahoans are the worst drivers in the northern hemisphere , they looove to tailgate,

This is my tailgater regiment

1) ignore them.
2) slow down to annoy them, then whip my phone out to film the happiness,

If that turns into a poop fest, which it usually does I go for the ol

3)  brake check they azz, until they get it through they thick potato!

Fu uck idaho drivers!!

Either let them pass and then at the next stoplight:



OR

Depends on the situation. If i'm in the left lane, i've most likely moved over into the middle lane before they even get close enough to tailgate. In other lanes, I ignore them or let off the gas.

I continue doing that I do and then wait an extra car to get over if they are going to b a dick about it . I'm passing too.

This

Depending on the mood, and where the tailgater is, and what street I'm on, I make a quick assessment of their vehicles capabilities, and then I don't let them pass.

My "fair warning to get off of my ass" is to create about 5 or so car lengths of separation, and then slow back down to the speed limit. They crawl back up my ass? Hope you like doing 25 in a 55, and not passing because my GTI is faster than your whatever you're driving.

Smile and wave when they eventually can blow by while giving the finger, usually makes them more mad.

I move over and let them pass.   I hardly ever have this issue on the highway because I do not drive in the passing lane.

Brake lights!  

Yeah I'm special for using the left lane as it should be used, the morons comprise the majority evidently.

 

So, what do you do when someone is driving beside you? That's a hell of a lot more dangerous than "tailgating."

Pass the person in the right hand lane and get the hell over if someone is behind you or coming up on your 6

Let me explain it to you like this…

The road, and most of life, is governed by two great spirits, the Spirit of Go and the Spirit of Slow.

The Spirit of Go is the dedication to motivation as typified by America, God, Jesus, guns, big thick steaks, win, awesome, bacon, Capitalism, and freedom. The Spirit of Go is focused, it is in control, it is aware of its surroundings. Go is sober and has fast reflexes. Go has places to go and people to see.

The Spirit of Slow is an Obama voting, anti-American, tofu eating, Socialist, spirit. It is stoned, or distracted by watching child porn on its iPhone. Slow has nowhere to go and hates everyone who does.

So, cast out the evil Obama voting demon of slow driving, put down the dope, the vodka, and the child porn. Put both hands on the wheel, focus on traffic, and drive. Soon you too will feel the Spirit of Go.

Highway?
I'm in the right lane. If I'm not, I will be. If I'm still being tailgated, I'll be slowing down (any faster and I'll either run into the vehicle ahead of me or be in the 'reckless' zone). I will increase my following distance to 10+ seconds (because now I have to stop for two vehicles), while still going limit+4mph. At that point, if I'm still being tailgated, I will wait until a passing zone, and then slow down to 5mph under the limit. If they don't want to pass... then it's a whole 'nother ballgame.
None of this applies where there are basically zero passing zones, but there are turnouts. I will use the fuck out of a turnout, wide shoulder, narrow shoulder, gravel/dirt side of the road, whatever (barring mud/sand/snow/steep drop-off), in order to get the hell out of someone's way.

Freeway?
I don't get tailgated. I have had some pissed-off people 'try' to tailgate me, but it's ridiculously easy to slide out from in front of them. On the freeway. If they're tailgating me just to tailgate me? Or just tailgating me until I need to pass someone, and then they try to pass me and keep me from passing? That's a whole 'nother ballgame. Barring long trips and heavy traffic, you are either ahead of me on the freeway or behind me. If you've managed to do both multiple times, and fucked up one of my passing attempts, I won't let you in front of me again. I'll just be +/-ing on the cruise control to stay just ahead of you, no matter which lane you're in.

Story:
So me and my girl are coming back from a movie. It's dark. I'm driving my stock Cherokee. We're on a very long, very straight, 35mph road. Very few lights, rural, the whole thing is basically a passing zone except for the intersections, one 50 foot bridge, and the railroad tracks*2. There's almost no traffic coming the other way. Maybe a car once a minute or so.
Some asshole in a compact truck catches up to and starts tailgating me, while I'm doing limit+4mph. I figured he just needed some breathing room to pass, so I slowed down to about 25mph(ridiculously slow for this road) and moved to the right side of the lane.
Nothing.
Just right there, can't see his headlights except one in my left side mirror. Not passing.
Okay.
So I speed up. Now I'm doing about 45mph (which is what people usually do, but city/county/state all like to stash a LEO along that road as it's a primary feeder for the small city I live in).
Still tailgating me.
So I tapped my brake pedal a couple times, and then quickly slowed down. All the way. To a stop. Asshole gets out... so I just drove off when he got to his front bumper.
lol
Then the fucker's back. Again. Tailgating piece of shit.
So I tapped my brake pedal again, and (keeping an eye on him in the rear-view mirror) did an emergency stop. Instead of going around me in the completely empty left lane, he almost drove into the irrigation ditch.
So I drove off again, and this time he stayed way back. Cool, I think. But no, now he's turning the same way I'm turning.
He followed me until he realized I was headed to the local station house.

Fucking idiot tailgater. When I have enough money, I'm buying a basic ugly truck with an ugly front/rear bumper set, just so I don't have to worry about some asshole that just has to be an asshole.

Never leave home without it.

Back when they still had quarter toll booths on the North Dallas Tollway, I got rear-ended three times. A receiver hitch does obscene things  to the hood, radiator, and core support of modern cars

I'm the guy in the passing lane trying to pass you when you try to pass others, slowpoke.  

On the highway I'm usually in the right lane.
Some fuckstick gets up behind me they get tail lights/brake lights.
Then 4 ways, works best at night. They bright
Then off the gas and slow down until they get the hint.

I actually came to a complete stop on a two lane road and they stopped behind me.
No other traffic and in a passing zone.
Stupid cunt.

Throw it in reverse and teabag their windshield with Truck Nutz.

I watch my 6 allot, because I ride bikes so much...on the bike I swerve allot & it makes them nervous & they back off.  In the car/truck I brake check enough  to send the message, you hang on my ass you better be paying attention.  Of course I clear the way for people in a real hurry.  I have not stopped dead and jumped out for a while now...... My Hayabusa can usually find some clear road around these parts...

Never had a tailgater, except those goofs with flashing red and blue lights being all bright and flashy.

Seriously, I just move over ASAP so they can be on their way.  It's the polite thing to do.  Maybe they gotta go pee or something.

90% of the roads I drive on don't have a second lane to change into.

I hammer down and see if they can keep up





Aren't DSP5's great?

I want to say that I fuck with the douchenozzle as much as the law will allow.  And in my childish days, I did.



But sadly, I'm old and wise, and I just let there be one ass fucker moran douchbag in the encounter - and it ain't me.

If someone is tailgating me, I'm usually impressed.  


I use my mirror, so normally it doesn't happen, but when I slip up, I make sure to let them by.

Yes, I travel in the left lane, but only because the right lane, on most highways in PA suck...

The person being tailgated is often the problem. If traffic is flowing around you like a river around a boulder, you are going too slow.

 

I cry.

I always want to mount some high intensity lights on my rear bumper to flip on and blind them.

I wanted to do this too but decided that I would either get shot or arrested or both.

I'm not generally camping in the left lane with no where to go and all day to get there, so I rarely encounter tailgaters.

If by some odd chance I find myself in the left lane with someone wanting by, I GTFO of the way.

Tailgating is stupid, dangerous, and obnoxious.   Al it takes is watching a line of cars pile up once to realize why you want some space.  If you don't like that, then tough shit.  Your turn to pass will come, but if you're riding on my ass there's a good chance it'll take longer because it's no longer a priority for me to get out of your way.   I don't reward that type of asshole behavior.

This is what I do.

I don't get tailgated because I know how to drive.  If you are being tailgated its for a reason, no one just does it.

Get out of the left lane, gramps.

False.  I've been doing 48 in a 45 constuction zone (1 lane each way w/ a concrete divider) w/ a Semi about 25 yards in front of me.  The idiot behind me was tailgating me so close I couldn't see his headlights.     There was no place t go and yet the idiot was riding on the bumper of my pickup.  There are lots of people who will tailgate for no apparent reason.

I'm not in it unless I'm passing.   If the assholes that tailgate when there is someone blocking me don't like that, they can foad, or just wait....

Usually they are just self important