Follow the tail-lights out of the city

[venta]

One of these days I am going to get round to rigging up some LEDs in my rear windscreen so I can spell "BACK OFF" to the person driving way too close behind me.

I hate tailgaters :(

(Today's finally passed me when I was in the middle lane, pulling onto a roundabout to go straight on. He turned right, from the left hand lane, straight across my bows without a signal.)

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Undertaking? Only possible in a hearse...

[grumblesmurf.livejournal.com]

Never found much use in overtaking on the inside. Yes, sometimes it's the most expedient approach, but the bumbling fools (most probably in a Volvo, wearing a flat cap or similar headgear - Why, ffs? Not as though it's going to rain inside the car is it? - has a caravan, and is probably called Gerald) don't even notice that they're doing anything wrong or at least inconsiderate to other road users. Some of them probably even tut at the youth of today doing so.

No, far better IME is to follow them in the inside lane, then when it's all clear and safe to do so, pull out around them, pass them in the outside lane, all the while indicating clearly what you're doing, and then cut back in front of them back to the inside lane once you're past. Had a great deal of success with that tactic - the 'Geralds' seem to wake up and realise that there *is* an inside lane after all and pull in at that point.

Of course, this doesn't work with anyone driving a German car - they all come with the bit of paper giving them all rights to the road.