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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Game-R" data-source="post: 631678" data-attributes="member: 27709">Okay, "panic" isn't the best word to describe what I'm trying to invoke in the driver behind me. I'm trying to give that sense of greater urgency to the driver behind to be harder on his brakes.I find that, often times the red brake light coming on isn't enough of an alert for others, especially when you've been in a long traffic jam for hours. Seeing a flashing red light is not taken with much weight and urgency as you would elsewhere. So if a situation where you are lightly on your brakes, but still continue to let your car glide closer to the obstruction, the driv behind would often not take into consideration any margin for error. And what happens if a real emergency occurs in front of you and everyone jams their brakes harder? Your brake lights are already shining to the driver behind, and he will only notice something is up when he sees your rear getting closer all of a sudden. My method is to wake up the driver behind to keep a little more distance behind me by provoking an instinctual reaction from the sight of a car's rear approaching him faster than he would expect. Thus breaking him from the deadlock of contentment that every car wil always gently brake in front of him.Obviously I don't try to jam my brakes that hard till the driver behind will potentially crash, but I monitor the distance of the car behind and just brake that little bit harder first and ease up on thebrakes after.All this may be measured in mili-seconds but it all adds up to a big differentiate between a close call and a hefty repair bill.</blockquote>

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