Revenge of the tailgated!

bitemebankers

mikey72 wrote: »

What if I'm on the phone, with the cruise control on, and my feet behind the pedals?
Is it still ok to tailgate at 2m or should I drop back to 4?

Good question. Fold-out map or satnav? These details are important.

jaqui59

I killed a rabbit today because of a tailgater ... He was so close to me I couldn't slow down to give it a chance to run away

jaqui59

anewman wrote: »

It's usually because they're a



Ever noticed the drivers of certain brands of car are more likely to do it?!

Hmmm ....Silver Mercedes drivers springs to mind

mikey72

bitemebankers wrote: »

Good question. Fold-out map or satnav? These details are important.

Map on the steering wheel of course
I don't normally tailgate, but since the interior mirror fell off, I have to use the one in the car in front to shave in the morning, and my eyesights not what it used to be.

mollycat

Lil306 wrote: »

OK, and you think the brain of an "alert" driver can't react faster than that ?

Have you never heard of a cognitive / stimulus response?

This basically allows a person to react ridiculously fast in an emergency situation. An "alert" driver, seeing someone stamp on the brakes would have an congnitive reaction thus allowing them to apply breaks automatically without even realising in a split second.

How many times have you suddenly had to do an emergency stop (excluding breaking dist).

Exactly how quick did your body reaction to the intial "shock"?
Your body stimulus would have reacted to it instantly (probably a thousandth of a second) and maybe another 1/10th of a second to stamp on the brakes.

What an absolute load of rubbish!

Your made up pseudo science would carry more credebility, (although not much), if you cold correctly spell the words "brake" and "braking".

My hypothesis is that you are a total spanner :D:D

bitemebankers

mikey72 wrote: »

Map on the steering wheel of course
I don't normally tailgate, but since the interior mirror fell off, I have to use the one in the car in front to shave in the morning, and my eyesights not what it used to be.

Perfectly understandable.

Hmmm ....Silver Mercedes drivers springs to mind

Around here the worst ones seem to be Audis, Seats and those little Citroens that teenagers like to decorate and attach shiny stuff to.

goldspanners

jaqui59 wrote: »

I killed a rabbit today because of a tailgater ... He was so close to me I couldn't slow down to give it a chance to run away

if it was a person you hit i doubt that would be any defense in court.

keep your eyes on the road in front of you rather than panicing about whats going on behind you and you might have had enough time to react to the poor wabbit.

cyclonebri1

jaqui59 wrote: »

I killed a rabbit today because of a tailgater ... He was so close to me I couldn't slow down to give it a chance to run away

At least you had the presence of mind not to slap the brakes on for the sake of what is basically vermin, sorry animal lovers:o

I prefer the shotgun for mine, rabbit that is not tailgater, on the other ha...............

mikey72

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

At least you had the presence of mind not to slap the brakes on for the sake of what is basically vermin, sorry animal lovers:o

I prefer the shotgun for mine, rabbit that is not tailgater, on the other ha...............

You can get a puncture from a sharp rabbit bone.

cyclonebri1

mikey72 wrote: »

You can get a puncture from a sharp rabbit bone.

No doubts, many years ago I ran over an already dead dog in the gutter on a dark December night. Next morning I had a flat tyre and prised out what I presumed was a long canine tooth, , last tyre he ever bit tho,:eek:, sorry