In heavy traffic, tailgating is a prim cause of chain reaction rear-end collisions. The car in front slows or stops. The cars behind are so close that the driver never has time to lift off the accelerator pedal, much less brake. Rear-end #1. Lather rinse repeat and I've seen 3 cars in a row, rear-end chain reacting.
The street is not a racetrack. Nobody knows when some moron on a call is going to slow, stop, change lanes, or turn. On the track, everyone brakes and turns in the same spots, and all the drivers know where they are. Even so, there are horrendous accidents due to following very close.
So you STINK at driving if, in traffic, you zoom up behind somebody, tailgate them for a little while, then zoom around and cut them off, only to be tailgating the car in front of the first somebody. You stink TWICE if you pull this boneheaded stunt in a tall truck, and you can look right over the top of the small car in front of you and see they are traveling at a speed dictated by the car in front of THEM.
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