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What driving concept you feel that most drivers don't understand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That just because the car in front of you has a momentary change of speed, you don't need to slam on your brakes. Congrats, you've caused traffic for hours

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Zipper lanes.

Each person goes one after another in an orderly fashion because it gets people moving faster, but instead you get asshats that either are trying to bully people by not letting them into their lane or trying to sneak in with the person coming into the lane because gee whiz, there’s a small opening!

It makes me so mad to see people not know how a zipper lane works, literally the easiest shit in the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Following distance should be 1 car length for every 10mph you are travelling. 70 mph would mean 7 car lengths.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The risk undertaken to make a short trip at 20mph over the speed limit isn't worth the few minutes it might save. On paper it seems like it would save a lot but the reality of inevitable stop lights and traffic cause different results.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At higher speeds, when you swerve you can't just swerve back to where you were. You need to get the car stabilized after sudden turns.

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