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Originally Posted by GMScud
1st off, you never described your "procedures" for your "blockades" until now. I've got a quarrel with your method here. How on earth do you know how fast someone was going when they came up behind you as you were "cruising" in the left lane? While you were "10-2 with eyes forward" did you somehow manage to pace their speed to a tee? Please. You have no way of knowing if they were going 81 or 89. So I call bullshit on that one. And the fact that you "cruise" in the left lane with no intention of exceeding the speed limit implies the antagonistic, entitled nature of your behavior.
You didn't even acknowledge my points/question regarding your rest-stop confrontations.
As far as the insurance company thing- I don't doubt Daseal, he's the one that came up with that. I'm not going to mine the web for insurance company surveys. It makes sense though. Let's say, hypothetically since it will make you happy, that blocking the fast lane is a big cause (not even the #1, just a big cause) of road rage. And it's pretty much a fact that road rage causes accidents. It's a simple equation really. What you're doing lends to road rage. You can say someone with a cool head going in a straight line at 90 is more likely to cause an accident than a pissed off rager at 75. That point can be argued just as easily as it can be agreed with.
You're out to provoke. And if what you're doing causes road rage, you just shrug your shoulders and say, "their reaction to my behavior is their problem."
I'm glad you basically admit that police officers would find your behavior unacceptable.
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For clarification:
I have my eyes forward of course, safely. But like any driver I see who's coming in the rear view mirror, you don't have to keep your eyes fixed on the mirror to know when someone's coming up on you quickly. Ultimately it's subjective. If I see someone coming up on me at what appears to be a reasonable speed, I move over and let them by. If I see someone coming up quickly and getting right on my ass, then I don't let them by. It's not like I have a radar gun tracking their speed, I just threw the mph numbers out there as guidelines of sorts to give you a point of reference as to what I considered egregious speeding.
I fully admit what I'm doing is antagonistic. But I don't care because in my opinion it's a means to an end. I'm not letting people do crazy speeds on the roads because that poses more danger to other drivers than risking that the maniac behind me will rage at 75. If that makes me an entitled asshole, I'm fine with that.
As for the police, I don't care if they think what I'm doing is advisable. I just care if they think what I'm doing is legal. In Virginia Daseal is right, a cop could pull me over for what I'm doing. In PA there isn't really a law like that, at least it's much more vague. That's where I live.
But, even in VA, if a cop saw me blockading the left lane, and he saw the maniac behind me tailing me at 2 car lengths, he's more likely to pull him over instead of me. A cop will tend to go after the aggressive driver over the passive aggressive, and tend to go after the passive aggressive over the defensive. When it comes to legality, everything is relative when there's just one cop car on the scene.
I'm an odds guy, probability and statistics. My whole stance here is based upon a number of odds:
- You're more likely to get into an accident by calmly going 95 than you are by raging at 75.
- The odds of coming across a wacko with a gun on the roads are minute, despite what the media would lead you to believe.
- Blocking traffic is illegal in some states, but not more so than egregious speeding and tailgating. Slower speeds are safer, and hence cops will tend to pull over the more aggressive driver.