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Surely when you brake they just go past?
Like in every escape scene from the 70s.
Then you can flip the bird as you both get on with your day.
If they jerk to the right,probably a bit too heavy, they're gonna jerk back to the left otherwise they wouldn't close pass and just cross the line?
Yes some people do it on purpose, dougs lout may well have done, I just wouldnt escalate by whacking a car and not expecting summat to happen back to me.
Spesh a roid head in his German.do you really just brake and hope...
Yes.
Avoiding a collision by hitting/colliding has a low success rate in my experience.
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The movies from the 70s may not be entirely realistic I suspect.
I find the worse place for this happening is where lanes merge and there aren't any road markings.
Normally you can extricate yourself some other way but sometimes (and it's a handful of times over years of riding) there's no other option. I've had someone pull in on me whilst stationary, braking wouldn't have helped there ..
aggi
Hoping that whoever is behind me also emergency stops and you stop quick enough to avoid being squished by the vehicle alongside you is also risky.
At least when drivers think they might have hit you they tend to steer away from the sudden bang.
Other reaction of course is the studiously ignore your very existence in the hope everyone will forget they were staring at their phone a second ago.