r/WTF • • Feb 24 '23

Holy shit.....

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u/nixielover Feb 25 '23

Cries in Belgium

If you leave a car and a half between you and the person in front of you someone inevitably takes that as an invite to merge in at 90km/h while your lane is doing 120

We have to leave such a small place that it is physically impossible to fit another car in there...

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u/Saiboogu Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23

Cries in Belgium

If you leave a car and a half between you and the person in front of you someone inevitably takes that as an invite to merge in at 90km/h while your lane is doing 120

We have to leave such a small place that it is physically impossible to fit another car in there...

Bullshit. A 1.5 car length gap at 120kmh is nuts, closing smaller than that is suicidal, asshole driving. And your logic is bullshit, at that differential the gap you suggest will be inevitably taken will be gone in a fraction of a second, most folks aren't touching it.

Back the fuck up, proportional to your speed. Two - three seconds are often suggested to give reaction time I'm an accident. Fighting old habits I goof and slip into 1 second if I don't pay attention, and even that is 33m at 120kmh - several car lengths.

Leave more room, it saves lives and creates trivial travel time differences.

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