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Myfavoritepetsnameis t1_jdp56or wrote

I’m just speaking from my personal experience and the few seconds we have in the video.

I drove a 9 ton truck for easily 500 miles a week for many years around the beltway. When I put on my signal people would speed up like I was going to steal their lunch. Instead I started to match their speed for a couple seconds and have them come up beside me then I’d tap the brakes to change lanes behind them. They got to be very predictable and this was the safer way to change lanes. People drive like absolute asshats around the beltway. I don’t understand it at all. Once you get off on 95, 70, or 795 they don’t seem to do it as much.

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Myfavoritepetsnameis t1_jdojyai wrote

The video I saw looked like really aggressive driving. Like the grey car was changing lanes and the white one wasn’t giving them space but they came over anyway. Neither person wanted to give up an inch. Looked like they’re both at fault to me.

It’s more and more common on the beltway: you put on your blinker and the person next to you speeds up to close the gap.

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