Comment on Welcome to petty lane

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it’s a 2 lane per side road the best way to get them to pass you is to not break check them but just take your foot off the gas until they get frustrated enough to just go around but this contextually sounds like a single lane sitch which you are correct is dangerous.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a school bus driver and the course material (and test questions) for the CDL state this explicitly. If someone is tailgating you, you slow down. Tailgaters are gonna tailgate no matter what, and slowing down means the damage will be less if they do happen to hit you. If that makes them mad tough tittie (the course material does not use “tough tittie” but you can tell they wanted to).

    The great irony of people who tailgate school buses is that WE CAN’T EVEN FUCKING SEE YOU BACK THERE. Even in your fantasy world of the person in front of you feeling pressured and speeding up (which never ever actually happens), it can’t possibly happen if they don’t even know you’re there.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not doubting you at all, but how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus? As if you can force a bus into anything.

      If you tailgate a larger vehicle, all you do is put yourself into mortal danger.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus?

        Pretty fucking dumb but it’s a low bar. The only upside to tailgating a larger vehicle like a bus is that our stopping distance is a lot greater so the tailgater is less likely to slam into us.

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    • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately for some, that pressure is real and entirely illogical. For the longest time my wife would start getting anxious and frustrated when someone tailgated her and would start to speed up… Only to contue getting tailgated by the same person. Took a lot of insistence from me to not play their stupid game for her to realize that not only was it stupid to speed up for them, but more dangerous and entirely illegal to start speeding just because of a tailgater.

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• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would fully agree that confronting a lunatic face to face is dangerous, but the chances of getting shot for driving slow is next to zero.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just let them go, because they are eventually gonna crash into a cop car and then you’ll see fascist pig vs unhinged sov-cit in real time, great show!

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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    www.wsoctv.com/news/local/…/804586303/

    Boom, it happened one time so it will happen every time

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But is not zero

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    people in my region have been shot at for flashing their lights at someone to tell them their lights were off. that’s why i think escalating a scenario where one or both of you are wielding/controlling deadly weapons/machinery is the only way to go.

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I slow down to allow them to pass me safely and easily.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is correct. It’s never worth it.

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