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Originally Posted by stone hands
This is a pretty common misconception, you really cant. The human brain evolved to estimate and handle running speeds. Travelling by car makes people overestimate their abilities
Let's say you have average reaction times and register the need to brake in your head to actually putting your foot on the brake in 3/4 second, 110km/hr is 30m per second, so in one second going 110 you have almost traversed 1/ 3 the distance before even starting to slow down. There are tons of articles or YouTube videos you can watch that go into far more detail, but the tl;dr is that people are notoriously bad at estimating how much time and space they actually have in a vehicle
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I won’t argue on the reaction time - and will even take the 25-30 yards reaction to break push as accurate (I think it’s still slow for any aware driver but sure for average )
If you car takes 2 additional seconds to stop your vehicle has an extreme problem . 2 seconds is an eternity