Speed limits
The speed limit on the straight desolate paved road that goes past our place is 80 km/hr. The people who use the road drive whatever speed they please and for the most part it works fine ….. until you...
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Bumpyroad wrote:toedtoes wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:toedtoes wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:toedtoes wrote:
They changed the wording from "at least one car length per every 10mph" to "at least three seconds" because it is easier to figure out.
I don't think that going down the road counting one thousand one, one thousand two, etc. and restart when another car pulls in front of you is easier than to estimate a car length behind a vehicle. in any event, there will not be any precision into any method is used to determine distance.
bumpy
Many people have difficulty estimating distances. And what "is" a car length? Is it a vw bug or a pickup or a sedan or a station wagon? Counting to three seconds takes those arguments out of the equation.
is that count to three, or one onethousand, two two thousand, etc.? what cadence do you use? when that car length was used many years ago I would assume that it was for a standard sized vehicle so it would probably equate to 1.273 of today's vehicle length.
bumpy :S
You're just being silly now. Is that 1.273 of a fiat or a Suburban?
I have to agree. this discussion is silly, bordering on stupid.
bumpy
Since when is a discussion on safe following distance silly ? There are many silly things discussed on this forum, but safety isn't one of them. Just because people have a differing opinion on what is safe makes it silly ?
