I saw someone was downvoted for calling you an asshole. I guess that doesn't really follow the spirit of HN, but it's crazy to me how much we have normalized driving dangerously as a society.
We have seemingly decided it's perfectly fine to drive in a way that puts others at risk of death or serious injury. It's to the point that if you call someone out on it, like the other commenter did, you're the one in the wrong. Yet they were just calling out a person for putting other people's lives at risk. We should be condemning driving like this, just like we condemn many other activities that put other's lives at risk.
There is some ambiguity in jhoechtl's comment. It isn't clear if they are saying they choose to routinely ignore the warning, or if they are saying that they would have to ignore the warning in order to routinely follow too closely and end up in a situation like was being discussed.
One of the site guidelines is to interpret a comment in the best possible way, so I am choosing to interpret it as the latter.
