> > What had been a common signal for “you’re a little too close” > I've never seen or heard of this. If you're being annoyingly tailgated, rapidly tap your b

> > What had been a common signal for “you’re a little too close” > I've never seen or heard of this. If you're being annoyingly tailgated, rapidly tap your brakes a couple times to signal the tailgater that you have brakes -- if you need to use them for real, he'll crash into you, so he should back off. Used to be standard communication in Northern Europe, i.e Germany up through the Nordics, but may have fallen somewhat out of the public consciousness recently (Geroffmylawn, damn millennials, etc).