I’ll start. Stopping distance.

My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.

For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…

What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?

  • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    10 months ago

    I look at it this way: I speed and weave on the highway, and save 5 minutes on my 35 minute commute. That’s one way. So 10 minutes per day, five days a week. That’s 50 minutes I save per week. 50 weeks per year, so I save 2,500 minutes or almost 42 hours a year. That’s basically a weeks worth of work I’m not in traffic.

    Worth it.

    I should mention that I ride a motorcycle half the year, but don’t weave in my cage, because I’m not a complete asshole. I still speed no matter what I’m driving, but not excessively

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      the average is 2 minutes a week I’m afraid

      what people forget is you can make up a couple of minutes on the highway at best, but most destinations will be on residential streets, which are controlled with traffic lights, and then you have to find a parking spot, lock the car, walk to the destination…