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From: man@bocar.UUCP (M Nevar)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: How to deal with tailgating Truckers
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 10:30:56 EDT
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>> I seem to remember, about 7 years ago, of somebody suing one of these
>> tailgaters for "psychological distress" (It seems they were in the
>> right lane, the trucker remained 1 foot behind the guy's bumper for
>> over 100 miles and never pulled around to pass, regardless of what the
>> first driver did.)
>
>Didn't someone (Steven Spielberg) do a movie on this?


Yes.  It was a made-for-tv movie that came out in the early seventies.
It was called Duel!  At the end, the driver kills the trucker.
It was a great movie.  Last year, some studio tried to cash-in on
Spielberg's popularity by releasing it to theatres, but I don't
think it caught on.

							Mark