CombatWombat@feddit.online to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAmerican Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing Itwww.jalopnik.comexternal-linkmessage-square202linkfedilinkarrow-up1304arrow-down119file-text
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minus-squareKanda@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoWhen you do this, they become a reasonable person and stop doing what they’re doing
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 day agoThat’s how you get followed home by a road rager, possibly possessing a firearm.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 day agoThe best method is to spray your windshield. Some of it gets swept with the wind into their windshield, and they have to wipe/clean theirs. I don’t think that’s ever failed to get someone to back off.
minus-squareCultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoWhy would someone care about this? I’ve had this happen to me a handful of times, almost always a jeep because they have crazy over spray, I was never tail gating but I was totally unphased by it, its wiper fluid not acid
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·19 hours agoThat’s why I fill my windshield wiper fluid reservoir with hexafluorosilicic acid.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoI don’t think people care about it, but it seems to trigger some subconscious “I’m too close” and they drop back a bit. I guess if someone is actually being an asshole aggressive tailgater then they won’t care
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When you do this, they become a reasonable person and stop doing what they’re doing
That’s how you get followed home by a road rager, possibly possessing a firearm.
The best method is to spray your windshield.
Some of it gets swept with the wind into their windshield, and they have to wipe/clean theirs.
I don’t think that’s ever failed to get someone to back off.
Why would someone care about this? I’ve had this happen to me a handful of times, almost always a jeep because they have crazy over spray, I was never tail gating but I was totally unphased by it, its wiper fluid not acid
That’s why I fill my windshield wiper fluid reservoir with hexafluorosilicic acid.
I don’t think people care about it, but it seems to trigger some subconscious “I’m too close” and they drop back a bit.
I guess if someone is actually being an asshole aggressive tailgater then they won’t care