Report Tailgater Button

Randomface74

Randomface74

Randomface74

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Sup car forum o/

Whist driving home today I had an idea, and you're welcome to steal it and develop it.

If someone is driving too close behind you, you press a "Get em" button.

Your car uses its parking sensor to measure the distance. Your car takes a photo of the number plate. Your car knows its own speed.

e.g. if I'm driving at 60mph and there's a car a foot behind me - it's perfectly reasonable that my car should automatically report them to the police.

Let's get 'em with the "Get 'em" button <3
 
Then you have to ask under what conditions is the tailgating happening. Yes its a safety issue but if the incident is happening on a dual carrigeway/motorway and the person in front is not overtaking, has no one in front of them and is not in the left most lane then the person in front is in the wrong and should have pulled into the left most lane.



edit: BTW, it is irrelevant if you are the front vehicle and are doing the speed limit. You are not there to enforce speed limits. If you are not overtaking, have no one in front of you and you can pull into the left most lane then you should do so. So many people think they can sit in the right most lane as long as they are doing the speed limit...
 
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By memory the highway code says something about stopping if you think it is unsafe to continue your journey, until a time it is safer, that or one of my instructors said it at a time. Slowing down and letting them go past is safer in the long run, why put yourself in danger.
 
Had someone this evening tailgate me all down a 20mph limit road. Then near the end they overtook. Couldn't help thinking, "yep making this a 20 limit really helped road safety there, top effort"
 
Kenai said:
This definitely works really well when being tailgated on single lane roads. Why did no one think of this astoundingly simple solution before? :p
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OP references a situation where youre being tail gated at 60mph. Not likely to happen on single lane roads is it? :)
 
Conscript said:
OP references a situation where youre being tail gated at 60mph. Not likely to happen on single lane roads is it? :)
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Why is it not likely?

Most of my ~60mile commute to site at the moment is on single lane 60mph roads.

If anything I find tailgating happens mostly on roads like this, as they're usually harder for the tailgater to find an opportunity to overtake unlike a two lane road.

edit - to clarify, I mean single lane per direction
 
If you're doing 60mph on any of the rural single lane roads around this area, its likely because you're completely bat**** insane, so the chances of having another driver of the same mindset keeping up with you, let alone tailgating you, are very slim.
 
Kenai said:
edit - to clarify, I mean single lane per direction
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As above.

You don't have to be mental to do 60 on a normal single carriageway, 2 lane road but you get as little opportunity to pull over, what with only having the one lane to yourself :p

60mph doesn't automatically mean 3/4 lane carriageways!
 
Ahhh fair enough. I took single lane to mean one cars width.

Id say my point stands though....if someone was tailgating me on such a road I'd slow, indicate and move over to give them the opportunity to pass. Not worth the risk.

I wish more people in general would do this...the amount of times ive been stuck behind someone who must realise that they are holding up faster traffic (motorhomes, caravans, vans etc) who stubbornly refuse to help people pass is infuriating :p
 
I suppose that depends on the traffic, unless you find somewhere to pull completely off the road, then being able to let them pass is entirely dependent on happening upon a decent enough straight stretch with no opposing traffic surely? There isn't really much room to just move over a bit on most roads like that.

If i'm behind someone slow though, my experience of other drivers is that they're completely stupid for the most part and so someone slowing down and indicating would probably discourage me from passing as i'd be wondering if that's their intention or not, i'd rather just make a pass of my own accord :p
 
Next you'll be hanging hi vis jackets over your seats because 'people think your undercover police' in your Yaris and hiding in the bushes in the hi vis jacket holding your wife's hair dryer.
 
it would be more fun if your car could fire something at theirs that immobilised it after it was reported .. have em sitting there waiting to be nicked :D
 
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