What’s a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

    • Kanda@reddthat.com
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      When you do this, they become a reasonable person and stop doing what they’re doing

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      That’s how you get followed home by a road rager, possibly possessing a firearm.

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      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.

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        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

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          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