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Fangs wrote:Most tailgaters won't stick with you past 120 mph. It's fun having them realize that they just don't have the guts to play that game and then there's enough distance between us that I can drop it back down to the speed limit without worrying about them catching up any time soon.

I've sent a lot of them off roading when they'd try to tailgate my higher-performance vehicles with their oversize trucks on winding roads. Apparently, they just stop looking at the speedometer and focus on staying right on my bumper...even when I'm taking a 40MPH curve at >95.

Even my wife's Mazda can handle that with some practice. An F150 with no load in the back doesn't stand a chance.

cbunt1 wrote:I'm not sure I'd want to stay in the car (not tactically sound) but I know I'd NOT want to remove that barrier (cover...limited, but some).

Even a weak barrier may be a psychological barrier against an attacker. ISTR anecdotal evidence of people successfully taking cover behind thin sheet metal signs in gunfights due to that effect. More importantly after the fact, staying in the car during the attack provides the presumption of your reasonable belief that deadly force was necessary under PC 9.32(b) if the attacker attempts to enter or to remove you from the vehicle.

(Charles, which definition of "enter" applies here? If the one from BMV - entry by any part of the body or object attached to the body - applies, then it sounds a lot more useful than the one from criminal trespass requiring entry by the entire body.)