Okay, if it’s your mission to keep madmen from getting their way, go ahead. Brake. When the bullets fly bc you poked a gang member in the nose, consider he might be trying to teach you a lesson.
My daughter’s boyfriend braked while driving her car lesson-teaching. Result: rear-end collision that sent everybody home from driving school in ambulances. Lesson learned, eh?
I repeat. Braking like that IS an act of road rage.
National Aggressive Driving Action Guide
Recommendations for the Six Areas
I. Statutory Strategies
Summary
Participants at the Aggressive Driving and the Law: A Symposium declared aggressive driving to be primarily a State issue, not a Federal one. The Implementation Team therefore developed a model that State legislatures and agencies can use to create or strengthen their own aggressive or reckless driving laws. Most existing reckless driving statutes are difficult to prosecute and carry only minor sanctions. Statutes should be amended to include appropriate punishment to communicate the gravity of the offense, especially when serious injury or death results. Also, State legislators must evaluate the new technologies being developed for recording dangerous and aggressive driving conduct for later use in prosecuting the driver. The model statute and other recommended strategies are listed below....
Read at:
http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/enforce/dot%20aggress%20action/guide.htm
Bs. Braking is not road rage since anyone braking should never place you at risk since you shouldn’t be tailgating. You talk like you respect gangbangers. I hate them and would waste the prick that thought shooting at me was his right.
I (almost) completely agree. Please let me explain.
Admission: I am an aggressive driver who has learned self-control over the years.
Last summer I was on my way to work. Time was zero-dark-thirty and way before dawn. We were driving the posted limit (40mph) on a straight piece of road in clear conditions. Suddenly and without warning the car ahead of me slammed on its brakes, coming completely to halt. Even at 40 you chew up the following distance in a hell of a hurry. I had two choices - hit him or dodge him. I chose dodge and shifted to the other lane.
The other driver had one of those cars you see on “Fast & Furious”, lowered with a wing and gaudy graphics. He had slowed (stopped!) due to an overnight street repair that left a rough spot in the roadway. He was afraid that his low-slung car would bottom out.
At this point it should be “no harm - no foul” right? I had avoided an accident that caused no inconvenience to him whatsoever. But that’s not the way it played out.
He stomped on the gas and quickly caught up to my SUV (a dozen year old commuter) and then deliberately drifted over into my lane in an attempt to run me off the road. I braked and he pulled in front of me and brake-checked me like the video in post #11. He was telegraphing his moves so it was easy to avoid him but it was equally obvious that he wanted a mutual-combat confrontation.
I eased my pistol out of the holster so that it would be a quicker grab and avoided two more brake-checks. I grabbed my cellphone and took a picture of his car (I later discovered that the pic was too blurry to discern his license number but the act alone was sufficient to discourage him) and then a picture of him when he pulled up next to me to scream obscenities. That changed his attitude in a hurry and he sped off.
Now I doubt that he did the initial braking as a brake-check - I believe that he was oblivious to me (or anyone) else being there. I don’t think that it started as a road-rage event but it sure turned into one! What set him off I never discovered, thankfully. Some might say that taking his picture is provocative but I have learned that it has a great dampening effect. I have since reconfigured my phone to make taking video easier with a one-click button.