I'm reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He's bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can't afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The woman in front won't let them past. She's going slower and slower to make a point. They're honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it's not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

It's too late. He dies.

....don't fuck around man. You never know. It's no worth it. Do the safe thing and make space or pull over. Safety over spite.

This is why I'm in favor of public transit. So many people should not be on the road. This goes for the granny under the speed limit drivers and the insane road ragers.

What to do when you have a tailgater behind you:

1. Foot off the gas.
2. Wait until the tailgater tries to overtake you.
3. PIT maneuver.
4. Keep driving safely.

This comment section is a very good case study in why better public transportation is absolutely necessary: a lot of you should not ever drive.

I just let them pass you. Not worth some lunatic you piss off even more and end up shooting you.

70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.

I was on a 3 lane highway going interstate. Doing 80 in a 65 on the fast lane. Big rig in the middle lane. Slowly gaining and will pass the bog rig.

Then a pickup is coming up in the fast lane TOO FAST. Easily 100mph. She tailgates me. Now boxxed in with me in front and the big rig on her right. A sane person would go in the third lane and pass us since zero other cars around. But no.

She lays on her horn and starts swaying with impatience.
So I match speed with the big rig. Maintaining the box. She honks ways more and sways even more. Shaking her fist at me.

I maintain it for another 2 minutes until my wife gets concerned she'll rear end us and we end up spinning off the highway or under the big rig.

I give in and speed up past the big rig and change lanes to her wacko pass. They speed off.

Yeah it's never worth it. You never know what people will do.

When people ride my ass while I am doing (at least) the speed limit I just take my foot off the gas to gently slow down until they go around me. If its only one lane then I will go under the speed limit. Im petty too like that

1. Escalates the angry driver situation.
2. Takes photos while driving.

Neither driver here is in the right.

Is this lady using her phone while driving, after speeding by 20MPH and thinking it's a flex? If she uses it at 20MPH I'd bet she uses it at 70 MPH too! Couldn't this have waited until she was safely off the road?

Wait, so the dude honked after her because she was speeding 20 above the limit (imo justified), and she's pretending of taking the high road by slowing down 30 under the limit just to spite him for her being wrong? 🤔

Or maybe it's oddly phrased and he was going 30 over and the petty lane is justified. (Personally I'd go 40-45, just to be not too slow as to be dangerous).

Where are y'all going that you gotta pretend real life is GTA? Ain't nobody need you that bad. You're late. Get over it.

Using phone while driving... Great.

Fuck everyone who ever touches their phone while the vehicle is on. This shit is not okay, ever.

Yeah, honking at me. And those flashing lights on the roof of their car are really annoying.

Love reading threads about driving cause everyone is very upset for no discernible reason.

The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It's not your job to enforce traffic rules.

Only time I've been close to road rage was when a Mercedes CL had a really bright LED strobe light installed inside it's front grill and he activating it, if somebody was in his way.

It wasn't a cop or other emergency vehicle. Just an asshole.

I was lucky to be in front of him for 15 minutes when traffic got compacted enough to prevent lane change.

For a moment I considered hitting the brakes on that particular tailgater.

I do this and then wonder why the fuck the asshole honking won't just pass.