Lol wtf is all these car lovers doing in /c/FUCKCARS

This. My city keeps putting in more and more traffic cameras, but it doesn't slow cars down; it just generates revenue. If they actually wanted people to slow down, they'd reconsider having the main road look like a pin-straight four-lane highway.

Hint: I too want to get to my destination relatively quickly. So this is just asshole behavior for the sake of it…

When you do this, they become a reasonable person and stop doing what they're doing

The best method is to spray your windshield.
Some of it gets swept with the wind into their windshield, and they have to wipe/clean theirs.

I don't think that's ever failed to get someone to back off.

In America, unfortunately, and depending on where you are, this could very well get you killed or pushed off the road.

People are rage crazy these days, everyone. Do not do this.

That's how you get followed home by a road rager, possibly possessing a firearm.

Why is it so hard for people to set their adaptive cruise control to the speed limit? Everyone is watching TikTok on their phone anyways.
Can we have speed governors in all cars please? At least in official cars like public works and fleet for utilities?

Welcome to /c/all!

Why would someone care about this? I’ve had this happen to me a handful of times, almost always a jeep because they have crazy over spray, I was never tail gating but I was totally unphased by it, its wiper fluid not acid

Always disheartening to see this rule of thumb downvoted. In here, of all places. People really telling on themselves. If someone is tailgating you they have less stopping distance if you have to brake suddenly. Slowing down increases time to react. It's not bad behavior or road raging, it's prudent sense. It can save your neck. I learned this in driver's ed. I'd rather have a cager sniffing my asshole at 30 than at 45, and if they don't have a lane to just go around, the speed limit is probably lower anyway.

I don't recommend driving at 10 under though. As in like all the time. If you're in a safe situation you should just drive near the limit, it's usually what the road is designed for.

First of all, you'd be surprised how many car enthusiasts support good urbanism. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Second, the people in this thread aren't demonstrating love for cars anyway; they're largely merely acknowledging the factual reality that it really is dangerous to provoke a lot of extra lane changes and passing maneuvers by driving at a significantly different speed than the flow of traffic. Speaking of which, I've removed some of your other comments (specifically, the ones suggesting to do that and to pseudo-brake-check people who tailgate in response) in accordance with section 8.1 of the Lemmy.world TOS. Please don't make similar dangerous suggestions here again.

I mean, if you're on a bike or power walking or something I'm certain nobody's going to get too disagreeable about your speed.

it's more like, "if I don't, the psycho behind me will gut me like a fish and then fashion my skin into an extremely ineffective shower curtain"

yeah i know that he shouldn't do that because it's illegal, but the world is full of highly principled corpses and there are people who are depending on me to be alive.

at least i get to cruise slow and steady when there happens to be no one else behind me... and what's wild is, ever since i grew the fuck up and stopped being a speeder piece of shit, i hardly ever encounter traffic jams anymore, and i don't seem to get where i'm going any later than i would have otherwise.

Hey power tripping mod, don't be an asshole.

It's not a brake check to lightly tap the pedal to flash the light. That's how you communicate to person behind you.

Why would you delete my comments in the name of danger but let everyone else who says you should drive above the speed limit stay?

That's because it is.

Try driving through I-5 in Los Angeles following the speed limit. I dare you.

Behavioral engineering is way more effective than posted speed limits that often didn't seem to correlate with reality.

If you give me a five lane stroad with wide lanes and lights only every 1/4-1/2 mile, I don't care what the speed limit is, I'm doing 60+ because it feels right, and if someone does the speed limit in front of me I'll probably be annoyed.

But if I was going down the same street, doing the same thing, with the same amount of time available, but the lanes were narrowed to add protected bike lanes, the center lane was replaced with a median with trees and occasional left turn/u-turn spots, and crosswalks were added between the lights, I'm going to do around 35 because that feels right, and I won't even be mad about it. I'll just cruise down the street chilling.

Give people a street where it seems like you should be going fast and people will go fast, and get aggressive/angry when they can't. Give people a nice street to roll down and chill and that's what they'll do. It looks nicer and is more walkable/rideable too.

Because one is done in an attempt to invite a collision and the one is done in an attempt to avoid a collision

also changing lanes very quickly while driving at high speeds, without signalling, after pandemic, people got worst.

the real answer to question "why people speed" is someplace closer to "why was this neighbourhood road designed like a freeway". Another is "why is it safe to have virtually no speed limits on Autobahns?". I mean people act on environmental queues - from the size of lanes to what speed fellow motorists are observing. Just pinning it on individuals is incorrect. HOWEVER there are entitled arseholes out there who will totally ride jour read bumper at high speed because they need to pass you only to turn off at nearest exit.