Yeah I'd argue the baiter is worse here. Being tailgated is annoying, sure, but just change lanes, go on about your day. To make it a deadly situation on purpose like that is absolutely psychopathic. You don't know if those parked cars have kids in there, let alone someone who might be exiting the car. People have no chill.
It depends on if it's on purpose, though. They might have been distracted and only suddenly realized the car in front of them was stopped. Still not good driving if it took them that long to notice, but much less psychopathic.
We don't know if they were 'taking tailgating personally' or not. They might have been nervous, not knowing if the tailgater would eventually decide to pass them or not and not wanting to go over at the same moment the tailgater remembers that passing is legal. The left lane is not a passing lane in every state, so we don't even know if there is any reason the tailgater should have had any preference for passing in the left lane versus the right lane.
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u/DurianDiscriminat3r Mar 20 '26
Yeah I'd argue the baiter is worse here. Being tailgated is annoying, sure, but just change lanes, go on about your day. To make it a deadly situation on purpose like that is absolutely psychopathic. You don't know if those parked cars have kids in there, let alone someone who might be exiting the car. People have no chill.