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Had a guy losing his fucking mind behind me in bumper to bumper traffic. I always like to keep about 1.5ish vehicle length (obviously not a real metric, just a guess) between me and the person in front in case people need to switch lanes or if I'm hit from behind.
When I say the guy behind me was mad, he was fucking LOSING it. He was screaming, he was flailing his arms, he was beating on his steering wheel, he was honking a shit ton.
He eventually just cut the lane beside me and the person next to me, just to get into the 30 feet of empty space in dead slow traffic. No idea why he thought this would somehow make any difference.
I honked at him several times just to fuck with him
My father taught me to leave enough space in front of me in case of being hit, but also in case I need to get out of the line for some reason. I've had to get out of line a number of times over the years due to accidents. I have 3 routes I can take to get to work, so once I realize there's an accident I can just turn around and go another way. Works out well, but sure does piss off people behind me sometimes.
Most importantly, you need enough space to account for your reaction speed + the time your vehicle takes to brake. On slow traffic that's one or two cars but as you approach highway speeds it's like 15, which no one observes. And higher during snow or rain.
There's something like a spring effect, you should try to keep the same distance between the car in front of you and the one behind you, watch this it's very informative: https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE
Most importantly you should do your best to drive at one, single, steady, speed, and not stop and go. In civilised countries that kind of thing gets taught in driving lessons, three or four people acting correctly can dissolve a traffic jam.
We (United States) were taught this in 1987 when I took drivers ed at school. When my oldest got her license there was no longer a driver's ed course. Must have cost more than the conservatives wanted to pay.
It's better to build multi million dollar football stadiums and buy sports equipment than it is to actually give an education, obviously. Why else would we send them to school everyday?
(sidenote: the real solution to traffic is getting all the reluctant and unnecessary drivers to not take the car during rush time. I.e. providing viable alternatives to driving & the freedom to choose the means by which to go from point A to point B)
Totally agree with this
As if ..... Where's he going? That many feet changes nothing. I live in a city famous for leaving a lot of space between cars, there are memes about it. So for this thread I'll explain a couple of why's:
I'm sure there are as many reasons as there are people, but these are the obvious ones.
I've had people pass me in traffic when I'm leaving a couple car lengths between me and the person ahead of me. It's like, what's the point?