I’ll start. Stopping distance.
My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.
For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…
What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?
am i stupid or how would the person behind you see your windscreen being wiped, or at least notice it?
At high speeds, spraying your windshield will result in some overspray from the wind, meaning the person behind you gets their windshield sprinkled with drops of washer fluid
ohh ok thanks
If following too closely, some of the drops of water will get on their windshield and it sometimes makes those people get enraged. Some people will use this as a way of letting someone behind them realize they’re tailgating too closely and because of that, sometimes like in my case, someone will legitimately use the windshield wiper fluid to clean the windshield, but the person tailgating will take it as an act of aggression.
i see