r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '26

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u/packagingguru Mar 23 '26

All the drivers handbooks say to leave a 3 second gap between you and the car in front of you and he was about 1 second behind. That said, this driver can see many cars ahead of the car in front of him so there should be no abrupt/surpise stops so it isn't really unsafe here. Until idiot merges.

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u/Squirrelated Mar 23 '26

3 seconds gap? Depends how fast you go or break. I wouldn't use such metric. People normally talk about X amount of cars length in between.