Cars & Transportation

Tailgating

Cars & Transportation

Posted by: JohnC

28th Jan 2011 07:29am

Something I absolutely hate while driving. There is no reason for it and it is very dangerous. Vicroads teaches to leave a 2 second gap from the car in front, but who can estimate 2 seconds while driving at 100km/hr? It is much better to use a rule of thumb which is 1 car length for every 10km/hr of speed, plus 50% more if the road is wet.

monkeyman
  • 26th Mar 2012 05:00pm

this my bone of contention, out here on the western highway the truck are our main offenders, this is also applied to traveling through rural towns.
I had a n incident very recently were i was traveling out of the horsham heading west past the seconary colledge in a 60 zone and the truck is tailgatting me sounding his big air horn to intimidate me to pull over so he could pass.
out on the highyway continued doing this until he overtook me and 5 other vehicles and soon disappeared. people like that need to be band from driving for life, as they create accidents.


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