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mattyrugg t1_ita95l4 wrote

Reply to comment by Icy_1 in Remember people, use the 3 Second Rule. Too many people in this state still use the 2 Car Length rule for some weird reason. by Styx_Renegade

>Back when dinosaurs roamed, I was taught 1 car-length for each 10mph

I was around when Dinosaurs roamed. They didn't adhere to this rule, and they all died in horrible rear-end collisions. Mystery solved. Seriously though, it's a great rule that most people can't seem to grasp the basic concept of.

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HairyEyeballz t1_itaiwo9 wrote

It's not that it's a hard rule to grasp. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware that if you leave more than two car lengths distance in front of you, before you know it you'll have just one car length in front of you because someone trying to win the race sees an opening and jumps into the space. So you drop back to open the space, and ba-bam, another clever person jumps into THAT space. And so on and so on.

The only way you're going to get anywhere near that kind of space is to just give it all up and putter along in the slow lane, and even then, you're going to get beeped at from behind and cut off in front.

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