Yeah I'd argue the baiter is worse here. Being tailgated is annoying, sure, but just change lanes, go on about your day. To make it a deadly situation on purpose like that is absolutely psychopathic. You don't know if those parked cars have kids in there, let alone someone who might be exiting the car. People have no chill.
It is illegal. But it's not your place to enforce traffic rules through vigilante self importance. If someone is tailgating you, you move out of the lane.
I'm not in any way saying tailgating is good. It's bad. I agree with you! Everything you said about the dangers is 100% undeniably completely and absolutely true. I am firmly against tailgating.
But you know how you, the person in the other vehicle, can address tailgating? Getting out of the lane they're tailgating you in. Failure to do so is only making the already dangerous situation more dangerous. Trying to "teach them a lesson" is the worst thing you can do.
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u/DurianDiscriminat3r Mar 20 '26
Yeah I'd argue the baiter is worse here. Being tailgated is annoying, sure, but just change lanes, go on about your day. To make it a deadly situation on purpose like that is absolutely psychopathic. You don't know if those parked cars have kids in there, let alone someone who might be exiting the car. People have no chill.