My goal is to never touch my brakes. I leave a gap so that I can coast up towards the car in front of me when it stops; I never hit the brakes to maintain that gap, only to avoid hitting the car ahead (if my coasting space wasn’t long enough). The only way to increase that gap is to accelerate slower than the car in…

This is one of the best internet comments I have ever read. All of this is true, but for some reason it seems so hard for people to understand. For a decade, I’ve thought about hacking a text display into my rear window so I could type a message to explain to the impatient driver behind me, “I’m leaving space in front…