Originally Posted by
Loren
Heh, yeah, that's an "experiment" that I often tell my students to try. You can be on a 4+ lane road with zero traffic, and somebody will come up behind you and just camp out there. Maybe they're too close, maybe they're at a reasonable distance... but, they've caught up to you, and they just stay there. Unless you do something annoying, or they get tired of being there, they're just going to stay right there and follow.
The experiment, as you noted, is to simply move to another lane, and watch what they do. As soon you're out of their way, they're GONE. Until they catch up with someone else. Then they'll tailgate them. They tend to drive as fast as they can, until they can't. I call them "sheep". They follow.
They're not in a hurry. If they were, they'd have just passed you. That's just how they drive. They're used to being close behind somebody, and they think nothing of it.
Don't be a sheep!
I usually just turn on the windshield washers until my reservoir is empty when I have someone following annoyingly close. I always keep an extra jug in the car and an extra case in the garage as it happens fairly often lol.
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