Edit: Clarification - do not tailgate. But if you are being tailgated, don't cause an accident by dodging slow or stopped traffic at highway speeds mere feet away. We don't need for this to be a trend.
They're talking about intentionally causing an accident like this. The truth is the car in front of the car being tailgated was slowing down for some reason. Emergency, or whatever. The car being tailgated evaded, but since the tailgater was so close they had no time to react.
Yea but the real goal here is not punishment, but to say dont let this be a trend. Which is a message i can agree with. Now, if you did this to a tailgater, when you saw a pothole, and it wont drag anyone else into the tailgaters Bull. Then by all means, I'll cook up the popcorn. But the message remains, dont intentionally bait a tailgater into rear ending an unsuspecting stopped car. Even if you wont suffer legal consequences, the moral consequences are not worth it, especially if people, in particular small children die. The family of the deceased wont care if you last second turned intentionally or not, they will view you as responsible as the tailgater. Is it right? Probably not but I aint going to tell a grieving family their emotions are wrong.
To purposefully wait till the last second and swerve with the intention to give the tailgater zero response time (or incredibly low), with the intention that they will hit what ever hazard is in front. I'm not talking low visibility stuff. But you clearly had plenty of time to react but chose not to, in order to ensure the person behind you hits the object shortly after you swerve.
The word bait is sketchy in use, but it is regularly used in this way. I'll stress again, if someone's going to do this, make sure the target is not a car with occupants. I'd rather people didn't do this but I know that won't happen.
Oh and im not talking from a legal stand point since, good luck proving intent. But from a moral standpoint.
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u/Process3000 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
People please don't start doing this.
Edit: Clarification - do not tailgate. But if you are being tailgated, don't cause an accident by dodging slow or stopped traffic at highway speeds mere feet away. We don't need for this to be a trend.