I see so many videos daily where someone on a highway or somewhere will just speed up and brake right in front of someone else’s car or truck. People do this just because ‘they want to tease others’ or it a form of any insurance scam?

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  1. Idiotic driving. Usually it is because the car they are doing it to did something to them earlier like cut them off or otherwise annoyed the person doing the break checking.

    Brake checking is moronic and dangerous. It turns what may have been a dangerous situation earlier into a new dangerous situation.

    I have heard of it being used for insurance scam purposes but never witnessed that myself.

  2. I don’t think many people brake check on the highway for insurance scams very often since it’s extremely dangerous, I think it’s either idiots or people with terrible road rage.

    The first case being “boy everyone sure is going slow in this lane at a speed of 55 let me speed up to 75 to get over to the left lane and immediately hit the brakes and go 58 because that’s the speed I like.”

    The second is just road rage where people with short tempers throw a tantrum and decide they’re willing to risk killing themselves and others because they’ve been mildly inconvenienced. Which seems crazy but it’s really not too outlandish considering everyone in the United States is allowed to drive if you’ve passed a drivers test regardless of whether or not you’ve failed 7 times in a row and passed once, you’re mentally unstable, or criminally violent.

  3. The only reason i have done it before is because the person behind me is following too closely and they need to back off. a quick flash of the brake lights is usually a good reminder to stay back at a safe distance.

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