Damn Camry drivers!

[pauljh74]

Today I was driving along in traffic and noticed a Camry behind me - when I braked along with the rest of the traffic - moderate braking at best - I noticed this guy's grille disappear from view under my rear spoiler, meaning he was a bit late on the brakes. This happened twice. Then we turned a corner onto a road which led to the freeway on-ramp - I admit I was expecting the traffic to flow onto the freeway (it is a right hand turn) as there is little oncoming traffic on this road. The traffic stopped fairly sharply and I got caught out a little and had to brake harder from about 40km/h and pulled up cleanly. I felt I stopped less comfortably than I should have, fair enough, my error - it would have been my fault if I hit the car in front, but I didn't.

I then looked in the rear view and saw this Camry again also hit the brakes hard and just pull up, then he hit the horn - directed at me - and I could see he was agitated - yet it was his repeated inability to brake early enough or leave a safe gap that led to this near miss. So he stuffed up and then seems to direct blame at me. If he hit me he probably would have tried to pin the blame on me - even though it would have been a clear cut rear ender with him being at fault. It's one thing to stuff up, and another altogether to blame someone else for it.

The people targeted for "hooning" are usually drivers of performance cars, yet when I drive in traffic, usually a little quicker than what the sign says, I frequently get passed by Camrys, Magnas and an array of 4 cylinder buzzboxes, doing 20+km/h over the limit, after they take a while to wind up.