If you like. It can also be a psychological question - are you the sort of driver who lets people in, and do you like yourself enough to let yourself in?
If I was driving and saw myself driving another car, why would I let myself in... I've now got two cars, I'm going home.
chronic hysteresis? and into what? self is where i'm aware of being. each of us are. appearance doesn't have that much to do with it. besides, if i saw someone who looked identically like myself, i doubt very much that i'd realize it. i have only the vaguest ideas of what i look like five seconds after i look away from the mirror. and even then, with the population of this planet being what it was, it is almost inevitable for there to be at leas five near absolute duplicates of my appearance in this world. so even if i did recognize seeing one, well i would feel, hmmm, that's interesting, but meh, not really any reason to consider it significant. so i'm i don't think i understand the point of the question. or what driving would have to do with it. unless you mean let the other car into my lane having passed me? isn't that sort of the law? no matter who's driving?
If I was driving and I saw myself driving in another car.... I would be on some pretty heavy acid, man.
If I was driving and saw myself coming the other way I would think "whats that twat doing out on his own !"
This reminded me of a very strange thing that happened to me about 40 years ago. When I was stopped at the traffic lights in London on my way home from the theater, a young girl walked up and said "I have missed my bus, so if you are passing Fulham, would you mind dropping me off". Although slightly surprised, I thought nothing of it, but when we arrived I casually asked her if she was not afraid of approaching strangers in that way. Her simple reply was, "If I ask for help, the chances of approaching someone who would harm me are about the same as my chances of winning the lottery, but if a car stopped during my hour long walk home, I would run for my life". An interesting philosophy, but probably very true.
thank you, i really had no idea what you had meant. well if i didn't have to slow down so suddenly as to cause someone behind to back end me, well it still wouldn't matter what anyone driving another car looked like. i mean i tend to be, let everyone else go ahead of me, driving or otherwise, unless or until it starts looking like its going to take for ever to do so. so if i didn't have to break suddenly or anything like that, i can't imagine any reason i wouldn't. but the part about they're looking like me, like i said, i doubt i'd notice, nor that it would have much to do with anything if i did.
If I was driving and I saw myself driving in another car the other way.... I would be so fucking lost.
i generally don't know who the hell i'm looking at in other cars i pass. but as far as right of way, i generally just follow the rules. trying to be nice just confuses everyone and ends up slowing traffic.
