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Originally Posted by P-hack
So... even if someone is tailgating, and other forms of reckless driving, we should ignore it because we are partly to blame. Am I reading you right?
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No, you aren't reading me right. No one mentioned "blame" but you. In any situation that leads to a bad outcome, such as an accident, as drivers we need to consider what we could have been done differently, to have prevented a bad outcome from happening. That's not blame; that's awareness brought about through experience.
You can't stop another driver from tailgating you. Therefore ignoring the tailgater is usually the most prudent thing to do. When confronted with another driver who is driving recklessly, the safest thing to do is to put as much distance between you and them, if possible. Safety is the primary concern in driving defensively, even if it means yielding in some way to a reckless driver.
But we don't know what was happening between the two of them before she began recording him. Often when traffic becomes heavy you can spot an aggressive driver in the pack. Could she have moved to the right? Could she have done anything differently? We will never know. We only know how the incident ended.