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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by Jtsummers on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:01PM (#15186214)
That is a valid reason to flash your brake lights. I do that, particularly when I know I'm slowing or will be slowing and someone is following too closely or can't see what I see (that there are brake lights being hit 5 cars ahead and my car is too big for them to see around/through). But I do my best to be a courteous driver.

Here in GA, most people don't even seem to understand that the left lane on the highway is the fast lane. Every time I'm on I-75 for more than 5 miles I'll be going speed limit to speed limit +5 and get stuck behind someone doing speed limit - 10 in the left lane. I do not believe that the majority of people tapping their brakes are doing it for a valid reason. It's more often (based on them accelerating at the same time) because they're riding their brakes.

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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by baldfat on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:23AM (#15190752)
Your part of the problem. https://phys.org/news/2007-12-traffic-mystery-mathematicians...

Mathematics has shown that each time a brake light flashes it forms a wave that miles behind causes total stoppage because for 2 minutes people hit their brakes lightly slowing down with each person behind slowing a little bit more.

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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by Jtsummers on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:05PM (#15193086)
I touch the brakes only when I'm slowing down, but not necessarily to cause me to slow down. And I only do that when people are following too closely behind me.

I've been rear-ended by people following too closely who failed to recognize that I was slowing in time to slow themselves down. I'd rather be pragmatic and warn them off before an accident occurs.

By "will be slowing" I mean: I have removed my foot from the throttle or stopped cruise control but my vehicle has not started to appreciable slow yet.

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