This is what I was meaning as well.
Indicator and right hand down instigated simultaneously in one fluid motion. I don’t need an orange flashing light to see that you’re in the process of squeezing in to the braking zone space I’d left between me and the car in front FFS!
From a systemic point of view, an important reason to keep your distance is to facilitate lane changes which in turn helps traffic flow.
Not saying you, but if *someone reading this* almost
always finds that cars are
squeezing in front of you, it *might* be that:
A: you have an ego problem ("everybody is in my way, and how dare anyone to actively choose to place themselves in front of me"). It's very refreshing to let any such feelings go btw...
OR
B: you're systematically driving too close to the car in front, so you always feel squeezed if someone is trying to lane change in front of you
Might also be a combination of both obviously.
That is not to say that there aren't too many people that don't have any manners in lane changing, just to to pinpoint that one cannot change others but one can change oneself as a driver - a very sensitive subject sometimes... I've learned myself and never feel squeezed nowadays, which is not the same as someone
timing their lanechange so you have to brake quite some or almost sideswiping you, those drivers receive coordinated audio and visual aids generated by my vehicle to remind them that wasn't a good move, but that doesn't happen very often...
Edit: spelling
