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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Had a guy losing his fucking mind behind me in bumper to bumper traffic. I always like to keep about 1.5ish vehicle length (obviously not a real metric, just a guess) between me and the person in front in case people need to switch lanes or if I'm hit from behind.

When I say the guy behind me was mad, he was fucking LOSING it. He was screaming, he was flailing his arms, he was beating on his steering wheel, he was honking a shit ton.

He eventually just cut the lane beside me and the person next to me, just to get into the 30 feet of empty space in dead slow traffic. No idea why he thought this would somehow make any difference.

I honked at him several times just to fuck with him

[โ€“] JoJoGAH 5 points 2 years ago

As if ..... Where's he going? That many feet changes nothing. I live in a city famous for leaving a lot of space between cars, there are memes about it. So for this thread I'll explain a couple of why's:

  1. Me personally , it became a habit when car jackings became a possibility. A less easy target mentality.
  2. Insurance is crazy high here and so ,as you mentioned, the not being forced into the car ahead of you .
  3. There have been multiple shootings in road rage in this city over the last year. Everyone kinda wants space and eyes on others or what may be happening, room to react or move. Also not into riding a cars bumper and maybe causing another incident.

I'm sure there are as many reasons as there are people, but these are the obvious ones.

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