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Yes, and the driver behind stays close, or gets closer. How has that created any extra safe space? It hasn't.
It doesn't matter how big the space is in front of you if the driver behind is too close.
Taken to absurdity, you leave a mile between yourself, and the car in front.
You no longer have to brake hard, should the car in front slam on.
The idiot behind you has more time to react to your gentle braking.
Not perfect, but perfect would be you controlling the tailgater which, you should agree, is not likely.
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And the point is, the tailgater is causing the problem, regardless of how much room you have in front of you. It is possible to need to brake hard even if nobody is in front of you, possibly for a stray cat, dog, child, ebike etc. It doesnt matter therefore how big the gap in front of you is.
As has been said, you can only drive your car. The only real option is to pull over and allow them to get away from you, or to stay in front of them and accept they are too close and may not react in time if you need to brake hard, for any reason.
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But, as I alluded to, if it was pitch black and a deer ran out (or any number of similar situations) you'd have to stand on it. And if you had a tailgater behind, they'd be stuffed.
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Its the same point I've been making all along. Glad you caught up.
The room in front is irrelevant
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The speed limits in this country were set in the 1970s, vehicle technology has improved ten-fold and yet they have NEVER been revised.
It's hardly any wonder that people break them when they make absolutely zero sense a lot of the time.
It's hardly any wonder that people break them when they make absolutely zero sense a lot of the time.
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Here we go with the wild numbers...
Anyone needs to mention that you need 300m to stop a car at 70mph or something along those absurd lines?
Whatever the "book" says about stopping distance, any modern car can at least halve that figure.
And any decent car uses 1/3 of the distance in the "book".
Total boll@x.
Exactly!
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It’s nothing to do with stopping it’s reaction times.
Distance travelled in 2 seconds at those speeds.
It typically takes someone around 2 seconds to react to someone unexpectedly stopping.
You might be lucky and spot it quicker, you might be unlikely and be behind someone with better brakes.
Distance travelled in 2 seconds at those speeds.
It typically takes someone around 2 seconds to react to someone unexpectedly stopping.
You might be lucky and spot it quicker, you might be unlikely and be behind someone with better brakes.
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2 seconds is absolute rubbish! Who the hell is that slow?! Did they base their figures on a 90 year old lady who's drunk?!
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Is that the figure from the highway code, written in the late 60s?
Maybe Ray Charles while he's asleep.
I can stop my wife's little A3 in a third of that.
And 99% of the cars on the road today can do it at least in half that distance.
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