tailgating

Yes, tailgating is relatively more dangerous than not tailgating.

People are just so stupid behind the wheel, running up on cars tailgating, bobbing and weaving lanes...

It's also a weird double standard when a lot of college campuses don't allow booze except for football tailgating.

This is why you buy an anti-tailgating system for your unattended but secured doors.

Heh, so maniacal aggressive tailgating doesn't actually get you to your destination any faster?

I think we can all agree that tailgating a drunk driver is an absolutely terrible idea.

There's a difference between tailgating and using one's space though.

Or does it check behind itself, and the lanes next to it, to see if someone behind it is tailgating, so moving to another lane is safer than stopping?

We don't need to emulate a person perfectly, the same way we don't have self-driving cars losing their tempers or tailgating people out of spite.

My post was meant to be a reaction to GP's post that implied tailgating to be equal with driving in a way that minifies cars cutting in front of you.

And, I wish police would fine people for tailgating.

So imagine you've got a bunch of sub critical chunks all in a line, they hit an atmosphere which gets them to pile up like a line of tailgating cars on the freeway.

In Uber, I got a dangerous driver only once (where "dangerous" meant tailgating, but nothing really bad).

Tailgating and weaving are caused mostly by frustration due to improper lane usage.

Tailgating is illegal (at least, here in the UK) precisely because it is so dangerous, for many reasons including the one you point out.

Tailgating in particular is extremely common in the US.