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Meh, I rarely get tailgated on a rural two-lane road (one lane in each direction) because I default to 100km/h or 110km/h outside of built-up areas so usually I'm the quickest one. On one or two occasions people have wanted to go faster but here we just wait until the overtaking zone (dashed line is on my side). If they wish to go faster, they are free to pass me and out of courtesy I will ease off the throttle to make it easier for them to overtake me. This has never happened, but if for some reason I had to operate below the limit and there is no passing zone or lane I would pull off whenever possible and let the person pass.
Generally my minimum is 80km/h outside of built-up areas; if you're travelling below that then I'm going to overtake at the next legal opportunity. There are some wider stretches where traffic flows closer to 65-70mph on these two-lane backroads and I speed up and overtake accordingly. That said, I realise that people have a right to operate at 55mph on these roads and won't hold anything against them.
NCDOT typically allows for quite a bit of two-lane overtaking so irate drivers are rarely an issue.
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