Thanks man. Everyone else seems to have some kind of issue with this.

If you’re going the speed of traffic why does it matter if you’ve got 240ft or 5 miles between you and the next car.

Bay Area...

I’ve been in the exact same situation (several times) where the car ahead changes lanes non-chalantly at last second to avoid a bumper and been able to avoid the bumper every time...

Don’t ride my ass and you’ll be fine xD

Let that person in and increase following distance again. I drive this way in one on one of the most congested commutes in the country (I-80 before the 80/580/80 maze) and yet I still somehow am able to maintain space around my vehicle and arrive at my destination when my GPS says I will.

For sure. Plus also have to weigh risks of maybe clearing debris vs potentially getting rear-ended by a full stop.

I’m cool with it. I like building a buffer around myself on the freeway and am generally able to maintain it fairly well and still get where I’m going with no issues. Easier in traffic too because you can stay in gear, not constant clutch-in clutch-out.

Whenever possible yes. But your point is well made. Ideally safe following distance is your entire stopping distance, plus your reaction time. You need the extra space because your eyes shouldn’t be glued to the car in front of you while on the road.

That’s fair.

Yes there is. Safe following distance is further than stopping distance. So what I am saying stands. You need to be able to stop in the event the person in front of you suddenly does. Their stopping distance might be shorter than yours, and you have to factor in reaction time, so your safe following distance will…

Seems like if there was no time to react to an object in the road that the car in front of you drove over without causing an accident then you were following the car ahead too closely.

Could be even more as they kept driving but probably not if it was still dripping 20 min later.

Nothing too crazy...took a Camaro up Pike’s Peak, camped in a Chrysler 300 and took it on some boulder-filled dirt roads (and did dirt donuts...), took a FWD Hyundai Santa Fe on some fairly rough dirt roads and some empty Montana country roads at some fairly high speeds.

Author is likely confusing ventilated and cross drilled

Sounds good to me...

That’s the joke.

That poor Ford GT :(

Sure. I drive two cars. One is a Miata. The other is a manual, FWD, turbo wagon. It has a modest ~220 HP. I would not have bought it if it just had 170. I know plenty about having fun with not much HP but in this case part of what makes the wagon fun is its a bit of a missile. I feel like a wagon that’s more…

Sure, but a bit more would make it more fun and fun was a criteria.