Its 2 seconds, add one for night, add one for rain: thats what youre suppost to do laugh.gif

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tibby01 @ May 12 2005, 09:03 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>ever hear of the 3 (formerly 2) second rule? tongue.gif
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Having now driven every major highway from Boston to DC... I can that anywhere around the cites if you leave more than a car length between you and the car in front.. somebody will slip in there

 

Nobody follows the 2 second rule. You just can't in medium to high traffic, or even you're following a car and you think you're far enough. 2 second at close to 60mph/100kph is around 33m/s. A car measures what, 4 meters? You would have to leave (33m * 2) / 4 = ~16 car lengths, or about 66m, in order to follow the 2 sec rule at 60mph. Pretty funny. When you're going 30mph, it would be around 8 car lengths. Do YOU leave 8 car lengths between you and the car in front when you're going 30mph? I know I don't, and can't. In traffic, about 10 cars would get into that 16 cars space. Same for medium to low traffic.

 

I prefer to give those bastards space and let them slip in instead of tailgating someone or hitting something...

 

Sure thing. But 16 cars length? wink1.gif

 

Maybe not 16 cars, but on the highway at 70-80 mph I stay 6-10 cars away.

 

Once I got a spider ding on my car when the nearest vehicle about 50 yards away, and that's because it was on the other side of the highway!! Sometimes you just can't excape the ding.

 

This didn't happen to my Tib... but when I drove around the Elantra Wagon, a bird flew into my windshield and cracked it.

 

This didnt exactly happen to me either but I remember as I was driving I saw the cat. converter on someone's car just dragging on the roadway. I just dont quite understand how people can't notice that. As for potholes and stuff, here in jersey, the nj turnpike is pretty safe, although sometimes there are flying pieces of rock from the trucks. I remember once I was driving the Tib and this big rock just slammed on my windshield and I nearly had a heart attack; or I remember some douche bag changing lanes from the right into the middle just as I was changing lanes from the left and he almost killed me because he didnt see me coming..luckily I swerved back in the lane safely. The city where my college is, there's speedbumps everywhere. While driving on there and then on rt. 24 over here, my tires became wayyy unbalanced.

Your lucky no real damage was sustained to your car..by keeping distance though things like this may be avoided hehe but I should talk cause I dont keep too much distance infront of me either except in traffic. tongue.gif

 

What pissess me off is when there's chunks of blown tire on the highway. You'd think there would be someone who could move that stuff outta the way