You really , really , really just cannot make assumptions about another driver ' s intentions or even their driving abilities well , you can assume they are terrible drivers liable to stop suddenly in the middle of the road and that you should be so far back that it won ' t matter if they do . You can always be far enough behind a driver that you could stop without hitting them should they be a complete moron . You were following too close , I ' m sorry , it ' s as simple as that . <| sep |> I had one neighbor that every sunday morning without fail he played I am the walrus by the Beatles , the same 1 song over and over from 830 am to 1200 , week after week , month and monty , blasting it with his terrace door open . Mine too as we lived on the beach . I asked him to maybe play a whole album or change songs . He said no . I closed the terrace and was trapped and could still hear it thru the walls . One day I walked into his house and cracked the record . He bought another one next week and kept on playing . I moved