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I agree with ignoring tailgaters until we are talking about being on a highway. Some guy running into the back of my vehicle because I have to heavily apply brakes and/or maneuver to a slower speed or lane is a threat. Especially at night with reduced vision and the greater likelihood of [A] either seeing something too late (even at a reduced speed; or around a curve, a hill); and [B] animals on the roadway.
I also notice that several hours past dark is where the likelihood of being tailgated by someone intoxicated or someone absolutely exhausted rises dramatically. They'll not shake off. I've tried both raising and lowering my speed to break "the trance" and doesn't matter if I'm on a two or four lane highway. I've come to nearly a stop as well as run above ninety for several miles.
There are those who cannot any longer negotiate the road without someone else to follow.
Heavy fog or snow or rain can cause the same actions, unfortunately.
And there are stretches of road so far away from populations of any consequence that "calling for help" is meaningless, or even that one will be able to call out (or raise someone on the CB).
Some tailgaters are a threat due to incapacity . . and there always remains the possibility that worse plans may be afoot. The vehicle type being driven by the other is almost meaningless.
I have my retinue of signals, but once it is clear they don't work, or that there is not a good place to pull off, etc, is a new scenario that one needs to think his way through.
Frankly, once a hard brake slam gets the message across I'm not tolerating tail-gating, I'm already prepared for so-called "consequences" as the story is straight, the options examined (and attempted) and that the cards will fall as they may.
I've long wished for a car-taser to shut-down the electrics of a vehicle driven in a threatening manner.
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