I have never heard of it before joining the platform and now see it almost everyday (always fails). I cant imagine stuff like that happening in germany. Why are people doing this ? What is the intention? It almost looks suicidal (sorry for strong language).
Thanks all for your help and sorry for my bad english.
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Most have already replied what brake check is…I’ll reply to “why would anyone do this” and the simple answer is that driving in the states is absolute savagery in a lot densely populated areas/cities.
A good chunk of the population doesn’t pay attention to anything beyond the end of their own car’s hood. Brake checkers are just those that are trying to “teach a lesson” to a tailgating driver behind them.
In a rear end collision, most insurance companies will default to the driver that rear ended the vehicle in front of them to be at fault. So brake checkers will see this as a win/win, they taught the driver behind them “a lesson” and now they think they are owed insurance money because they got rear ended. If police does a good job investigating the accident, both drivers will be held accountable.
Anyways, this is a long winded way of saying “EGO”.
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