I'll never understand why my credit card balance never goes down. (But I sure dig my new jeans.)

True, so true.
:)

It makes me slow down.

If he/she continues to tailgate, I find a need to test my brakes.

Ah yes, the good 'ol break test. I find myself using that more and more. :(

I don't understand why people in cars tailgate me to the point I can't see their headlights then flash their brights or turn them on and they do nothing but blind themselves. I'm like hello! SUV! Higher than you! If you're gonna pull the brights out back up!

Yeah, BTD, I don't understand why the one-car-length per 10 miles per hour just doesn't seem to be taught anymore? Most people are usually within one-two car lengths behind me, even at 75 miles per hour! Eek! What happens if I have to brake suddenly. This is one of my pet peeves too.

I don't consider myself an old lady driver but I seem to be one of the few practicing this technique. Did Driver's Ed switch out this rule for something else? Or is Driver's Ed just not taught any more due to budget cuts? Holy moley, if it's been cancelled, Gov. Schwarzenegger, put that course back in please! I'd be happy to pay extra taxes for that class.... ;)

I was taught the 2 second rule - two seconds behind the car in front of you.

But I took driver's ed in 1980.

And I bet your butt looks amazing!! Citizens = sexual candy for the ass!!!

The thing about following the rules as you state (and which I am in agreement with, btw) is that people will cut in front of you if you leave more than an inch open.:rolleyes: That's potentially even more dangerous. I try not to tailgate, and get tres pissed when someone does it to me, but I don't leave too much room if there is someone next to me that I think will try and cut in suddenly. Just drive defensively and hope for the best.

I don't understand why other drivers don't understand that your car slows down if you just take your foot off the gas pedal! When I'm in slow traffic, I like to count how many times the driver in front of me hits his brakes before I even hit mine even once because all I'm doing is backing off the gas.

I was taught the 2 second rule too. And yes, sadly drivers ed has been scaled waaaaaay back (before Arnie was in office). Now it's mostly in-class reading and movies and a day (maybe 2 if you're lucky) on the road with the teacher. Most of the people driving like morons around here are not teens, but people in their 30s.