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Found an interesting way to get rid of an extreme tailgater today. I was driving down the road I drive every day, so I know every characteristic of it including where all the shady snow and ice patches were to be found. I was coming back from NC where they plow the snow from the roads to SC where the backroads are unplowed and the snow/ice just is mostly left to its own devices until it melts away. This car turned off behind me and was impatient at the 40mph speed limit (I was doing PSL to 5 over) and started tailgating me close enough to where I sometimes couldn't see his headlights through my rear window, even though I hit the brake lights a few times to try to get him to back off. So I just cruised along, and deliberately hit the biggest ice patch on a curve with a fair turn of speed. I'm running Hakka R snow/ice tires and knew which line to follow through the curve so I had no problem maintaining control. Not so with my close follower. Needless to say I didn't have a tailgater problem anymore.
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