Originally Posted by: Quantum JAK 
I find the online adventure community to be 80% cool, 20% toxic douchebags. I am tired of people intentionally pushing me off the road as I pass them.
This is because the game has rules to enforce clean driving regarding obstacles, and penalizes people for running into walls, but still allows players to run each other off the road with no penalty!!! This is INSANE!!! Running people off the road on purpose in any racing league would get you banned for life, as well as potentially charged with serious criminal offenses such as vehicular assault or attempted murder. Little is more rage inducing in this game than being nudged off the road by some scrub you are passing. Going from 3rd to 12th in a Marathon race because some scrub can't deal with the fact that you are passing them just makes me feel like quitting. If the run-off is bad enough, you can never catch up, and essentially end up losing league points to lesser skilled scrubs because they are dirty players. The other irritating thing is that players can also wall bounce off of your car, slamming you into a wall and causing YOU to get a collision penalty even though you were the person driving cleanly.
If people push someone off the road, they should be stuck in place until 10 seconds after the person they push off gets back on the road. That would reflect the real life seriousness of that type of dirty driving. In the current game world, it is a terrible thing to run into an object, but perfectly OK to attempt to kill other race drivers. Makes no sense. And it is ruining the enjoyment of the game for me because I can't go a single series without someone doing it at least once. Sometimes it happens to me every race in a series.
Please do something about this.
Subject discussed so many times and you possibly missed the release time of the game with no ghosting, corner bombing etc, online was like not playable at all. For a few months they did some efforts, any collision was leading to slow down for instance and then they started to go back to allowing more collisions. The game staff leader, Mike, if my memory is good, just stated that 'a bit of hits is fun' on live stream to justify allowing being pushed out of a checkpoint without any consequence for the pusher.
Except some few trolls considering 'game is peeeerfect', 'game is soooo grreeeat', most here share the same opinion that the collision management needs improvement. Up to me, any collision lasting more than 0.5s should be ghosted plus if you hit someone from behind and it results in a slow down from the car you hit, you should have the same slowdown. Doesn't fix all cases, for sure, but applying any of the two would be experience changing.
Ramming is the cancer of FH online experience, it was under some control in FH3 but went totally out of control on FH4. Anytime you find someone your level, not ramming, fighting tight for the win, it's like finding gold in a river, and finally having the best experience of FH possible.
All that said, don't expect any improvement on this subject, it wouldn't bring any new buyers. They prefer to invest on new features which does.