Graham Wright wrote:This always struck me as a good maxim.
It would be good for a sticker in the back window.
Does one exist?
Zebedee wrote:A safe following distance must be one of the most important things for safety - arguably the most important - yet it's not something that sticks for many people after they pass their L-test.
Silk wrote:One of my pet hates is stickers in back windows. Dealerships stickers in particular.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:I have never really understood the whole following distance issue and why there is a "2-second rule"
TheInsanity1234 wrote:(I suppose the government need to keep it simple for those who got their licence out of a cereal box).
TheInsanity1234 wrote:chevrons painted on the road [...] The gap that they make you follow at varies slightly, depending on your position in the car, but the average I've counted is between 1 and 1.5 seconds. Those distances are closer than the 2 second rule that the government keep talking about?
waremark wrote:Silk wrote:One of my pet hates is stickers in back windows. Dealerships stickers in particular.
Yet another thing on which we disagree! I generally leave dealership stickers in my rear window - I particularly like my most recent one which looks classy to me.
Gareth wrote:Even though many licence holders with a few years experience think the driving test is easy, many learners find it is much more difficult than they had imagined.
jont wrote:Gareth wrote:Even though many licence holders with a few years experience think the driving test is easy, many learners find it is much more difficult than they had imagined.
And yet at the same time many license holders would readily admit they'd expect to fail if they had to resit the DSA test.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:I have never really understood the whole following distance issue and why there is a "2-second rule" because in my mind, this only really serves to encourage that frame of mind that "if I am following at this distance, I must be a safe driver" even when conditions don't encourage it.
I would just guess that a decent following distance would be:
Minimum number of car lengths = (speed limit / 10) + 1
For example, the speed limit is 70, so the minimum following distance should be 8 car lengths?
(I suppose the government need to keep it simple for those who got their licence out of a cereal box).
In fact, have any of you noticed that in some places on the motorway, there are chevrons painted on the road and you have to follow someone with at least 2 of those in between you and the car in front.
The gap that they make you follow at varies slightly, depending on your position in the car, but the average I've counted is between 1 and 1.5 seconds. Those distances are closer than the 2 second rule that the government keep talking about?
Zebedee wrote:It's interesting how poorly this little ditty has worked. On the motorway, for example, how many cars maintain a 2-second following distance?
A safe following distance must be one of the most important things for safety - arguably the most important - yet it's not something that sticks for many people after they pass their L-test. Perhaps its importance is lost amongst all the other things, such as parking, with which learners are trying to grapple.
martine wrote:Zebedee wrote:A safe following distance must be one of the most important things for safety - arguably the most important - yet it's not something that sticks for many people after they pass their L-test.
Quite agree - I wonder how many crashes annually would be avoided if everyone kept the space in front to 2+ secs...quite shocking really. It's such a simple thing and yet so widely ignored for no benefit I'm aware of.
jont wrote:Gareth wrote:Even though many licence holders with a few years experience think the driving test is easy, many learners find it is much more difficult than they had imagined.
And yet at the same time many license holders would readily admit they'd expect to fail if they had to resit the DSA test.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:...I would just guess that a decent following distance would be:
Minimum number of car lengths = (speed limit / 10) + 1
For example, the speed limit is 70, so the minimum following distance should be 8 car lengths?
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