Comments on: Aggressive Tailgating for No Reason Whatsoever http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/20/aggressive-tailgating-for-no-reason-whatsoever/ Los Angeles drivers can't drive. Plain and simple. Basic traffic laws and driving etiquette clearly do not apply in a town where the people seem to operate in their own little bubble, completely unaware or dismissive of others on the road. Call it what you will: self-entitlement, negligence, malaise, ignorance. My goal? To have mandatory driving tests randomly issued where drivers are eligible for selection after 6 years. Consider this jury duty for the road. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: I-95, U-405 http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/20/aggressive-tailgating-for-no-reason-whatsoever/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 I-95, U-405 Sun, 25 May 2008 17:47:56 +0000 http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/20/aggressive-tailgating-for-no-reason-whatsoever/#comment-1245 Mal, at least you made it home safely. Next time, call the cops. Mal, at least you made it home safely. Next time, call the cops.

]]> By: Mal-2 http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/20/aggressive-tailgating-for-no-reason-whatsoever/comment-page-1/#comment-1241 Mal-2 Sun, 25 May 2008 08:45:34 +0000 http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/20/aggressive-tailgating-for-no-reason-whatsoever/#comment-1241 I had one coming home on the 110 South at 1 am -- gold Chevy SUT (7M99483). I'm doing 75 in the #1 lane (this is north of the 10 still, speed limit is 55) and keeping a respectful distance from the car ahead, and this asshole starts tailgating me. I check the right side mirror to see if there is anyone preventing him from going around, but there is not. I tap the brakes a few times to make a point, and flip the rear view to "night mode" (which I generally try not to do), and he starts flashing me continuously. I am now less than one second off the tail of the guy ahead, and apparently the asshole behind me is oblivious to the fact that there is someone ahead of me, even though he should be able to see right over the top of my car. Finally I hit the brakes HARD for a split second, to no avail -- he brakes just hard enough to avoid hitting me. By this time, the guy ahead of me has pulled parallel to someone in the #2 lane, so there is REALLY nowhere to go. But with the separation I just created, I slap it down into fourth gear, pop two lanes right, pass and get back in the left lane where I was, once again going 75. Asshole starts flashing the two cars I just left behind. Finally he resorts to using the same maneuver he forced me into, and flies by me on the right, giving me the chance to note the license plate number. 7M99483. 7M99483. I chanted that all the way home just so I could tell the whole city that YOU FAIL IT. I had one coming home on the 110 South at 1 am — gold Chevy SUT (7M99483). I’m doing 75 in the #1 lane (this is north of the 10 still, speed limit is 55) and keeping a respectful distance from the car ahead, and this asshole starts tailgating me. I check the right side mirror to see if there is anyone preventing him from going around, but there is not. I tap the brakes a few times to make a point, and flip the rear view to “night mode” (which I generally try not to do), and he starts flashing me continuously. I am now less than one second off the tail of the guy ahead, and apparently the asshole behind me is oblivious to the fact that there is someone ahead of me, even though he should be able to see right over the top of my car.

Finally I hit the brakes HARD for a split second, to no avail — he brakes just hard enough to avoid hitting me. By this time, the guy ahead of me has pulled parallel to someone in the #2 lane, so there is REALLY nowhere to go. But with the separation I just created, I slap it down into fourth gear, pop two lanes right, pass and get back in the left lane where I was, once again going 75.

Asshole starts flashing the two cars I just left behind. Finally he resorts to using the same maneuver he forced me into, and flies by me on the right, giving me the chance to note the license plate number. 7M99483. 7M99483. I chanted that all the way home just so I could tell the whole city that YOU FAIL IT.

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