Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:56:04 +0200 From: "Edmund Blackadder" <israelssonnopsamnet.se> Subject: Re: Tailgating is Evil
So next time it happends, slowly push the brake pedal with your LEFT foot until you hear a little "click". Now you´re brakelights are on, and the tailgating driver should get the message. If it doesn´t work, try to give him/her a flash with the warning lights. /Fredrik -75 96V4 Joshua Landess skrev i meddelandet <35f3a413.14364785nopsam>... I have seen, here and there, drivers of newer Saabs tailgating in disproportionate numbers. It makes me cringe. When you tailgate, you communicate to the car ahead of you that he or she has no right to stop quickly, even if an unexpected road condition arises. Any rational person understands that, on occasion, unexpected road conditions do arise. Wise drivers leave adequate room ahead of them to have a good chance of reacting safely to the problem. Tail gaiters endanger not only themselves but the person in front of them. They penalize the person in front of them for leaving adequate stopping distance. They also endanger the car following this ugly (and pathetically macho) spectacle by increasing unnecessarily the chances that an accident will occur in front of him or her. I look forward to the day when a small but apparently clueless percentage of Saab owners cease and desist from feeling that their road rights are superior to those of others'. We own pretty good cars. We may drive a bit more quickly than some others, where conditions seem to afford the opportunity. No-one,... I repeat: NO-ONE has the right to tailgate. JL
