Tailgate
Senior Member
Am I the only one or is there some sound logic to,the cagers who don't queue up normally at a light and will leave up to a 20ft "gap" between them and the crosswalk line or even just the vehicle in front of them? This now seems more and more to include drivers doing this practice even if they're not the first one before the crosswalk line. And, if the first one in line does this to preclude from getting pushed into the cross traffic during a rear-end incident, why then, don't they move up once a line of cars has established behind them? But, what really baffles me are the ones who are, not even in the front but, say, 3-4 cars back and stop 20 feet or so short of the vehicle in front of them and just stay like that even if there are 20 vehicles completely stopped behind them. WTF? The other day while making my way (splitting at 5MPH or so) through stopped traffic I discover a 20foot or so empty space or "gap" in front of one of the cars stopped 5-6 cars back in the queue. Since the light up front turned green and the cars were now starting to resume movement I just pulled in this empty car length space (I don't like to split at light queues when traffic starts moving). Is this supposed to irritate, do you suppose, the driver behind me who practices this kind of protocol? WTF is going on with the drivers who do this practice? WTF is this supposed to do besides irritate the other drivers behind...including the ones who want to make a left turn but can't move up to get to the left turn lane and, as a result, must now wait for another traffic light cycle? I don't know about you, but this kind of discourtesy "irritates" me, especially if I'm in my van and I could have room to enter in the left turn lane and make it in one traffic light cycle if only the f'ing driver up front taking up enough space for 2 vehicles didn't do this. Imagine if all drivers did this. And you know, if I wasn't on a motorcycle and filtering at these light queues I wouldn't even be aware of how often this is what's happening up front. Tailgating can be GOOD, even courteous, if nobody's moving and nobody's going to possibly rear-end you and push you into cross-traffic or the vehicle ahead of you.