How Do You Deal With Tailgaters?

[Renze]

Yes.
I'm not sure if I included it but there also is a statute prohibiting speeding up when somebody is passing.

Here too, but when i was doing 65mph (50mph is allowed with a trailer) a truck (that bypassed its mandatory speed limiter: likely by pulling the breaker from the breaker box) tried to pass me at night on an empty two lane road. I kept him busy in the opposing lane, untill he reached 85mph. When i saw headlights in the oncoming lane (where he was driving) i scooted away at 100mph to not make him do anything stupid and cause an accident by proxy, because the guy looked pretty aggrevated

 

[not2old]

This is one good reason to always have superior horsepower.

I have to agree with this. In the ten years I've had my CTS-V, I've given a jerk my right foot rather than my finger three times that I can remember. Much more satisfying and polite.

 

[BleedingOrange]

I have to agree with this. In the ten years I've had my CTS-V, I've given a jerk my right foot rather than my finger three times that I can remember. Much more satisfying and polite.

Yup, and each time I hope like heck it ain,t a pissed off, of duty cop. With cell phone cameras now so popular, were they can snap your plate, it is even more risky doing stuff that isn,t really legal, while driving.

 

[WinterDeere]

I have to agree with this. In the ten years I've had my CTS-V, I've given a jerk my right foot rather than my finger three times that I can remember. Much more satisfying and polite.

I loved the old big-v8 CTS-V's of the 2010's era. Sadly when we went shopping for a new car for my wife in 2020, with the CTS-V at the top of my memory, I found they no longer offered any of the higher horsepower and higher displacement options in a wagon. We ended up abandoning Cadillac, on that alone. Meanwhile, Dodge was still offering the Durango with 485 and 707 hp options, much more suitable.

I try to never buy any full-size car less than 500 horsepower, that's about the minimum I consider "drivable". Something around 200 - 250 hp/ton.

There's just no arguing with 500 hp in a passing scenario, when most you're passing on the road are driving 4-bangers that struggling to make 200-250 hp.

 

[Jstpssng]

With cell phone cameras now so popular

Not just that. Dash cams are also getting more widespread. I've had (2) school buses running red lights on mine. Not just stale yellow, my light was green when they went through from the other direction.

 

[paulsharvey]

Not just that. Dash cams are also getting more widespread. I've had (2) school buses running red lights on mine. Not just stale yellow, my light was green when they went through from the other direction.

They are adding bus light running ticket cameras to some busses now too.

 

[BravoXray]

Quite a while back, I was headed home from work and some asshat in a BMW was right on my rear bumper, I mean no more than ten feet off it, for several miles. I could see he had a big cup of something he was taking a swig out of every once in a while, so I waited until he had the cup up to his face and gave him a brake check. Next thing I saw was whatever he was drinking splash all over the inside of the windshield. He blew his horn then pulled over and stopped. I was still laughing when I got home.

 

[JasperFrank]

That's a good law, but I suspect very few know it. I see people do this routinely, although I don't know if PA has any specific law against it.

This is one good reason to always have superior horsepower.

This, and how to use it. If you pass some one with "swiftness,"... "Command" for lack of better words, there are fewer games the other driver plays. And I want to think the best of other drivers. I wonder if its even something they are conscious of doing.

Its the slow overtake, that seems to be at the root of these issues.
I drive small cars now. So swiftness isn't available. But when I had the G30 Van, with a 454, when the secondaries kicked in, I was passing them, and they knew I was passing them. Safely and Controlled and then no more games, "I'm going to go a little bit faster than you."
In the smaller cars, its almost an affront to some people. And these are the dangerous ones to deal with. If some idiot in an expensive car, gets mad, I just pull over. Not worth my time. As said earlier, I do see them later; ticketed or caused a wreck.

 

[sd455dan]

That's a good law, but I suspect very few know it. I see people do this routinely, although I don't know if PA has any specific law against it.

This is one good reason to always have superior horsepower.

Agree, but sometimes best to just let an aggressive driver go.

Happened the other day with a Porsche that kept running up on my tail, we entered a slow down to 45 small town and he started to enter the center turn lane like he was going around . Then an oncoming vehicle pulled into it for a turn up a head and he must have thought better of it.

My step son was with me and I told him this guy wants to race. He corrected me and said no he doesn't. He barely got the words out and the road opened up to two lanes in both directions and he goes blasting by. Looked over and said see.
I wasn't going to race anyway, and what does my kid do but flip the guy off, then I see the Porsche driver flip us off and told my kid to knock it off. Within a couple more blocks the Porsche passes two cars in front of us cutting one of them off.
Figured i don't need any trouble so just cruised along at the speed limit.

Thought maybe I could have out accelerated him in the model Y Performance,- anyway get home and thought I wonder what that Porsche was actually packing under the hood.

I am not well versed in Porsches but made sure to note the model (Panamera Turbo SE Hybrid).

A little google Fi -Turns out those things are rated at 771 HP and hold a record on the Nürburgring.
0-60 in 3 seconds flat and a top speed of get this 200 MPH + Wow... Quite the grocery getter.

 

[steve tym]

I suspect some of the poky people (imagine that, I'm going to defend them) get to the passing zone and speed up because it's a nice straight piece of road and or, then they realize how slow they are going when you go to pass them.
Why so the slow people refuse to pull over when it's safe to do so?