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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There is a linguistic issue that may be behind this question. Since you are worried that it “looks suicidal,” you have understood what a brake check is already. It is when a driver who is upset that someone is tailgating them (driving too close behind them) brakes suddenly to scare the other driver into backing off. This is both dangerous and in most jurisdictions, if not all jurisdictions, illegal.
The purpose of the name “brake check,” though, is because the people who do this need to claim some sort of plausible excuse for it. It is illegal to slam on your brakes in order to scare another driver, even if that driver is already doing something illegal themselves. However, these people give as an excuse that they didn’t mean to scare anybody at all — they were just “checking their brakes” to make sure they worked.
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