Ah, you interviewed the braking driver, you know the exact reason for their braking, and its been confirmed? No? Then its meaningless to the situation. Whether it was because they felt like braking to be mean, or they sneezed, or a possum we can’t see in the video jumped in front of them, the leading driver braked for…

Because many of the commenters here ARE aggressive tailgating dumbasses?

Honestly? I wonder if he was deactivating his cruise control by doing that. As you mentioned his speed doesn’t change and yet Trailblazer is suddenly in the ditch. But I guess it’s easier to scream “brake check!” to validate peoples own awful tendencies to tailgate.

Your example doesn’t really fit the situation, so I’ll fix it for you. I’m walking down the street, you’re walking three inches behind me because you’re an idiot and don’t understand sidewalks. I stop for a tenth of a second because there’s a nail in the sidewalk, or a baby duck, so for a tiny fraction of a second, I…

Okay, anecdotes =/= data, but I’m going to say it anyway: every time I see someone want to drastically exceed traffic speeds and thus ride all the way up the tailpipe of the person going a sane passing speed in the left lane, they end up being one of those morons who weaves through traffic like a maniac, scaring the…

Didn’t see any rapid reduction in speed for the lead car here, looks like he tapped his brakes and the idiot/asshole behind him wrecked himself because he had zero margin for error and a shitty handling SUV.

Yes he should have cut off the semi he had just passed and made it more difficult for the cars coming up the onramp to merge just so one asshole behind him could go >20MPH over the limit on a road with a decent amount of traffic. That would have been much safer.

You sound like you have anger problems. If I’m in the left lane and passing people you can wait your damned turn to get around me once I’m clear of traffic and I move over. I’m not speeding up and risking a speeding ticket so that your raging, tailgating ass can go 20mph over the limit.

Nah. Brake-checking is for when you actually have nowhere to go and someone is still tailgating you. If I’ve got open lane in front of me I move over and let the faster driver by. If there are 3 cars in front of me keeping me from going faster though, I’m not doing 2 unnecessary changes just so the car behind me can…

I can tell you from personal experience that gassing it to find a gap in the right lane just so you can move over will not work as an argument against the cop who happened to radar you at that moment. Now I absolutely don’t ever gas it just because someone is coming up fast behind me. I’ll switch over when available,…

I’m all about not being left-lane hogs, but I think that people who feel the right to tailgate someone deserve some sort of social check on their behavior. If you can’t brake safely because the person in front of you has hit their brakes, then you’re driving too close. That makes you a bigger jerk than a left-lane hog.

Assuming the guy doing the filming was doing roughly the speed limit, and he seems to be keeping pace with the guy up ahead of him so it seems like a reasonable assumption... then the guy being harassed is passing at a reasonable rate of overtake in the left lane and therefore is doing pretty much exactly as he should…

I dont think this guy was being a lane hog at all. He was passing a slow truck at a spot where a slow car was entering the freeway and a car in the right lane was going even slower. He was passing everyone when he was in the left lane. So I dont see a lane hog here, just an asshole talegater.

Dude is passing a car in the right lane. That’s not “blocking” anything.