Holly feels that she tailgates both conciously and unconsiously. She says that she sometimes tailgates when she is in a rush to get to a place. Other times she tailgates to get back at another driver who has wronged her intentionally on the road. Unconsciously she says that she tailgates sometimes with another passenger in the car letting her know about it. Holly also set up a mini experiment for herself where she observed her actions by tailgating a car on one day and not tailgating another car the next day. She found that she had the same emotions in both instances, and she needed to make a conscious effort not to tailgate the other car.
Jamie feels that she has never tailgated anyone on purpose. The reason that she knows this is that she is a small girl and wants to avoid a confrontation for fear that she would get beaten up. She also is very opposed to tailgating because she says that her grandparents always get tailgated. She says that her grand parents travel at the speed limit and don?t want to go any faster because they say that their reactions are slower.
Juliet says that she has not had any experiences with tailgating. She is always very respectful to other drivers and their personal spaces. When she is tailgated, she tends to speed up so that she doesn?t upset the driver tailgating her. I feel that this is a very good attribute for a person to have. With a little work on my personality and aggression, I hope to also look at drivers who tailgate in the same way.
Christopher is a person that doesn?t tailgate other cars. He set up a self-evaluation making the drive from Makakilo to Manoa and observing his actions in regards to tailgating for one week. During this time he didn?t tailgate anyone, but would instead pass slower cars that were traveling in the left lane. he did feel some anger towards these slower drivers, but didn?t want to tail them in order to display his emotions. I feel that by passing a driver who is upsetting you is a very good way to deal with negative emotions on the roadways. He also went on to mention that when he found himself tailing someone he would slow down to their speed so that he wouldn?t be tailing them.
Jayson gets upset at other drivers who are in the left lane and are not passing other cars. He doesn?t tail them though. Jayson just speeds up and goes around them. He talks a lot about speeding and how people should get out of the left lane if they are not going that fast. He also brings up a point about if another car is going faster than he does, he pulls to the right lane to let that car pass. I find this very intriguing that he knows his limits as far as what speed he can handle. I would try to go faster than the other car.
I define Tailgating as an action of following another car at least 3 feet from bumper to bumper. The way that I observe my feelings while doing this act is of anger towards the other driver. This is the only way that I can show this anger without using hand gestures or signs. When I am in the act of tailgating, I notice that I have only one thought in my mind. This thought is to get that other car. My thinking is that This is my road space and I must regulate what you have done to me.
I feel that tailgating is wrong. Although I do it a lot, I am trying to stop it and find other means of displacing my aggression while driving. To try to control another person with an automobile is stupid. This is why I am now doing things like squeeze a stress ball while driving. This helps out a lot and takes my mind off of the aggressive tactics that I think about doing.
The reason that I tailgate another car is to irritate the other driver. I usually tailgate another car on purpose to get back at the driver for either cutting me off, tailgating me, or cutting in and out of lanes frequently and dangerously. I tailgate other drivers as a way of revenge for an action that they did. I think that I am doing the right thing when I am tailgating another driver until I really stop to think about what I am doing and the fact that I am driving reckless.
When I am in a situation where another driver is tailgating me, this really gets me upset. I feel that the other driver is invading my personal space on the roadways. The most important emotion that I feel is that the other driver is putting my life and the lives of my passengers in jeopardy. I feel that the other driver doesn?t care about me and my passengers and I then get very upset. The first thing that I do to try to get this driver to stop doing this is to brake hard and fast. Hopefully the other driver realizes that he or she is close and should back off. I f that doesn?t work, I start driving slower. I do this to try to get back at the other driver.
I now understand the underlying activities that tailgating can bring about. Until actually sitting down to think about tailgating, I never thought about the potential tragedy that can come about from this foolish game. I now understand that tailgating is a childish act that should not be done. I also need to control myself in a machine that has the capability to do so much destruction. Hopefully, other people start thinking the same way as I do so that we can all minimize the amount of accidents on the road.
Future generations can improve on this activity by doing the examination of their behavior before going back to prior generations. The reason for this is that by reading other opinions about a subject, it tends to stray a person?s ideas from their own. Another thing that can be done is a survey to try to get other people?s opinion of the subject. This will broaden the perspective of how people view tailgating and what can be done to combat it.
Through this report I did a lot of growing up and realization. I found out the faults that I need to work on and the ramifications of my actions if a I don?t change my ways. This report was an eye opening experience that made me thinks about things that I never gave much thought to.
My Report3: Driver Communication