To all those drivers who don’t keep the distance.
If you’re driving behind me at a distance of 1 m while I drive 130 on the highway know that:
- no, I will not move away to the right side, mainly because I can’t, but also because I’m frozen from fear, and also because I don’t want to encourage your aggressive driving.
- no, again I can’t immediately move to the right side, because I KEEP the distance from other cars, obviously unlike you.
- yes, you’re putting in danger my life, the lives of my children and everyone else‘s in a radius if 50 m.
- yes, if you keep the safe distance and make me a sign with your lights that you need to go faster than 130km that I’m already driving, I promise I’ll move away ASAP. It should be less than 1 minute.
Please everybody, let’s respect each other on the streets!
EDIT: Since there are people who write “just stay in the right lane”, I must say: do you think there is any excuse in this world for not keeping a safe distance? For endangering lives? Just keep the distance, no matter the speed of the person in front of you. At 130 km/h there will be a dead person if something goes wrong for sure, but it’s valid for any speed!
I don’t just have to stay in the right lane! The left lane is for everybody! everybody is allowed to overtake, and they should overtake at the speed they are comfortable with. And you should have patience and let them merge safely into the right lane without creating danger on the road.
And to the young driver of the bmw, who was behind of me yesterday at 130km on A4 at about 8:20 so close that I could read his lips, with his elongated face, looking half of the time at his blond girlfriend - you are a disgrace and danger! And I’m so happy that after I eventually merged in the right lane and let you pass, the person in front of me didn’t do it. They actually pushed on brakes, and showed you that you can’t intimidate like that.
As a last point, people like this imo are antisocial, entitled, aggressive and probably incapable to grasp the danger of their actions, and quite bad at math, because at the end of the day, even of they drive their 135, they are only gaining 1 min max at our Luxemburgish distances.