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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Leaving a 1 1/2 car lengths while stopped is absurd. I’ve seen maybe 1% of drivers do it (and I’m probably being incredibly generous) and they all look like strugglers who aren’t paying attention.
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I generally go with the “leave enough space that you can see the front cars back tires” rule. Guessing that works out to ~6-8ft depending on the car your in? Always leaves me room to turn out of the lane if needed and should be enough to not pile into them in a “reasonable” rear ender. Without getting into the physics of it, if someone is smoking me so hard I’m skidding more than 8ft, not sure I’m in a condition to keep my foot on the brake hard enough that 18ft (1 1/2 car lengths?) is going to matter either. Car in front of me is going to have a bad day too.