#tailgating is stupid

[scottguy]

File this under: Why speeding and tailgating are stupid.

At 70+ MPH your car will not act like it's in a fender bender at 15 MPH.

The innocent people hit become victims too because someone wanted to save a few seconds or minutes (at most) and all end up paying for that impatience with paralysis or death.

You see all those big chunks out of the median wall when you drive down the freeway? You think they're all caused by big 16 wheel trucks?

Nope. They're caused by idiots like the above who think they're "better" drivers simply because they can press an accelerator pedal. (Such skill!) They're nearly always the same ones who arrogantly never signal because they think the "see everyone". First, it's going to be the one car you DON'T see that you hit. (No one is that infallible.) Second, how do you know another car isn't going change lanes to where you're going and NOT signal also like you don't signal?

Relax. You will get there. We spend SO much time driving and nothing ever seems to happen. But driving is thousands of times more dangerous than commercial airline. We're just desensitized.

There is such a TINY amount of friction and gravity holding your half ton box of steel & plastic to the pavement at 70 MPH. (Even less in rain.) That BIT of gravity and friction are the only things keeping a car from turning into a missle.

Just sayin'

[khytal]

concerning number of people saying tailgating is the solution for dissuading those who don't use their turn signal from abruptly merging. that's not any safer 😭

[cons4eva2]

An expansion on my previous post about how Tailgate plays Roblox:

- He does. He plays unserious simulator games and also Brookhaven (he does try to get Cyclones to play with him but to no avail so far)

- Misfire scams children on Adopt Me.

- Ultra Magnus did try Brookhaven once but he scared everyone away by speaking in full sentences with correct grammar.

- Rodimus is addicted to that pressure washing simulator.

- I can imagine Nautica trying to engineer the perfect vessel in Build a Boat.

- Not a mtmte character but Prowl LOVES Emergency Response: Liberty County. He's a big fan of the unfair power imbalance between the rozzers and the criminals.

[parrotscopes]

My Cygate fanart 💙 💜

This was actually an art project for my class where we had to make a piece inspired by American pop art so I chose that one mtmte panel lol

This piece is actually going to be one of 11 pieces going in my IB art portfolio for high level art 😭

In Cygate we trust guys

[housewifebuck]

In the next ep Eddie and Marisol were probably on their way to a date somewhere else and drove by Buck and Tommy going in the other direction and Eddie just made a u turn in the middle of the highway to follow them and crash their date

[hashipebbles]

lil guy I doodle on the fridge :]

[poetrydemon]

Ya know, I'm getting pretty fuckin tired of tailgaters on the road. Like istg, almost every time I go out there's some asshole riding my ass. Like wtf? Get off my ass dude. I literally have to speed up just so they leave me alone. I'm literally already going 20 over, why the fuck are you driving so close? I hate their stupid decorations too. Why are there so many people putting strobe lights on the tops of their cars nowadays? It looks stupid and tacky. And they all use the same boring ass unoriginal colors. Blue and red. Blue and red. Blue and motherfucking red. I'm sick of it. Fuck you and fuck your tacky car

[toytulini]

boston rush hour traffic really has u experiencing such a range of human manners. i was looking judgementally at the lack of distance between the bumpers of 2 cars, the driver doing the tailgating noticed me looking, and gestured to me asking if i needed/wanted to get over, implying he'd let me over if i did, but i said no, and he gave me a thumbs up. and continued the tailgating

[ocdhuacheng]

Acab obviously but I’m literally such a cop when it comes to certain traffic violations like I’m always coming on here afterwards to complain like

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Tailgate is moe, to me, and no, I am not accepting criticism.

[six-of-ravens]

lmao building manager called me to get more details about The Incident yesterday (even though I emailed her everything last night lol) and said she "doesn't have access to her cameras because they're being worked on" so that is extra creepy. one of the benefits of living in a building full of paranoid old people is that there's like 30 security cameras in the common areas, driveway, parkade etc.

however i did get treated to another one of her rants about how much she hates "the new people" and "there are not good people living here nowadays."

[celepeace]

What is it about snow that the instant there starts being even a little buildup on the road drivers start acting like they got a brain transplant from a hamster and laws don't exist. Yesterday I had to take my boyfriend to urgent care and in the span of like 3 minutes I saw two people driving on the wrong side of the road, someone else whip through a parking lot perpendicular to the direction of traffic like they had right of way, and yet another person do 80 on the freeway during rush hour traffic and make multiple lane changes without a signal. In the snow.

[darthlenaplant]

For real tho. In the video, those walls are fucking THIN af. American Suburban houses especially are rather INfamous for being practically made from cardboard. That door lock is not stopping anyone who has a sledgehammer or a chainsaw.

On the other hand.

There's NOTHING in that fucking house lady, NO ONE is interested in the bland ass box of nothingness you live in. People would mistake you for a boring lamp and leave you standing there.

If anything, they'd bring you stuff.

Also, of you are THAT insecure without your big bad boyfriend to protect you (from what even, the fashion police? Queer eye?), maybe get yourself a dog? Go to self-defense classes? Learn Karate or Judo or something! Are you a useless princess that can only wait for her knight in shining armour to save you? Get yourself some self-respect, wtf

[lackadaisical-lesbian]

Y'all are too committed to the speed limit

[krisatherandom]

If you think you're being aggressive by tailgating someone hauling a trailer because you think they're going too slow for you; you're not. You're just being stupid because we know we're driving slower, and we pull over when we can if there's people behind us. But when you tailgate WE CAN'T FUCKING SEE YOU TO KNOW TO PULL OVER AND LET YOU PASS

[angelfully]

obeying the speed limit in a world of tailgaters is so humiliating