Tailgating!
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 133
Likes: 6
From: Minnesota
I don't think it's because you're in a corvette. I have the same thing happen whether I'm in my truck or my company minivan. My wife gets it in her Chrysler 300, my daughter in a 2012 Focus.
Holding you up at a light, getting in front then slowing down, speeding up when you pass...people are just 'holes for some reason.
It does seem like it's gotten worse lately though.
Drifting
Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,674
Likes: 191
From: Shit Creek, USA
Not safe!I think ******** who travel in a center lane while passing no one are actually worse than the ******** who block the far left lane.
In any event, most days I find it easier to pass in the far right lane. The entitled masses are already hogging all the passing lanes.
The "rule" seems to have changed into "Keep Left Except To Exit". BTW, best of luck to you if you've been cruising in the passing lane, I'm in the slow lane and you need to get over suddenly to exit.
Pro
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 741
Likes: 37
From: Athens, GA
I guess I've been lucky. In the thirteen years between my C4 and my C6, I've only had a few occasions where I thought someone was trying to challenge me for a race, or felt like I was being targeted by a tailgater. But most of my driving is in rural Illinois and northeastern Georgia, so the drivers there might not be as crazy as they are in Texas and California. And on those rare occasions when something like that has happened, I just goosed the car and left my problems behind.
Steven
Steven
Instructor
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 106
Likes: 21
From: N. Ca. Foothills
I have only owned my c6 for about four months but seems like I am tailgated way more than in my Silverado daily driver. The majority of my driving is on two lane roads with max speed limit of 55. You can get by with 60 but not much more. My next project is a radar detector. Not so much of a problem on freeways. I thought my speedometer was off so I checked it with a gps and it’s spot on.
Safety Car
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,147
Likes: 452
From: Port St. Lucie West Florida
If someone is tailgating me , I put my lights on for a few seconds and change lanes they think its my brake lights. I sometimes step on it to get away from them or slow down so they can pass me!
Last edited by enventr; Feb 6, 2019 at 07:34 AM.
