There seems to be a genetic disposition of some people to drive on your bumper, beating on the steering wheel with red faces, usually pickups and larger vehicles, but not always. They cause many accidents, up the stress level of both the people they follow and the people in their vehicle.
I vow not to step on the brakes anymore, it enrages their already slender grasp on control, and they may be armed and just left their weekly session for anger management meeting. Or they flip their car and hurt innocent people. Or they could be blind. So you just grit your teeth and grin and bear it.
But I have a solution with two components: one is a system that is installed in your car like a breathalyzer for drunk drivers, except that now it has a beam that detects when you are too close to the car in front of you. This is fed to the police, so they know you are tailgating someone, or speeding, or whatever stupid driving you are up to.
The other part would be a camera installed in the back of a car that films and records the vehicle behind you with a distance detecting infrared beam. So if you are being tailgating, the evidence would be captured and sent to the police. It could notarize the time and date, though probably not be used in court. Still, it sends a message. Such a system couldn't be much to build, with the dramatic drop in pricing of electronic equipment, and the increase in features.
So then there is proof the person behind you is tailgating you. If they are driving on suspended licenses or otherwise on probation, this might tell the authorities what they are doing. They would have no idea you are filming them.
Imagine the fear of God this would put into tailgators, the ordinary vehicle they are so aggressively following is actually taping them. Would it reduce tailgating? Maybe not, tailgators are technically insane.
Brooke
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