[quote=svelte]
Seriously, did you ever stop to consider maybe tailgaters in general have quicker reflexes? [/quote]
I think they may *think* that they have faster reflexes. What happens if they’re tailgating, their phone rings, and then the driver ahead has to stop suddenly? Not an implausible scenario at all.
[quote=svelte]
Look at NASCAR drivers, f’rinstance.
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They are not NASCAR drivers. And the roads are not racetracks. There are a lot of drivers of different abilities, people with loved ones in the car, people with poorly maintained cars, people impaired by alcohol or drugs or infirmity or all three, sharing roads that aren’t maintained like a racetrack is. There are pedestrians and bicyclists. The very *thinking* that what you are doing is anything like NASCAR is wrongheaded.
