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Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) writes:

>c.c.eiftj@16.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:

>>Sometimes the following distance ahead of me grows up to 10 seconds or
>>so.  Not because I'm driving slow, but because the motorists ahead of me
>>are so impatient that they all speed up and form a small clump of
>>vehicles.  Then they all brake sharply and slow down again, and the
>>following distance ahead of me decreases to 3-4 seconds.  Then they
>>clump up again.  And so on.  They never seem to learn.

>10 seconds is 900 ft at interstate speeds.  That seems excessive.  3-4
>seconds is greater than the minimum recommended, and so in heavy
>traffic, people will think you a loon and probably trreat you worse
>because of that.

Thus entirely missing the point.  Let me present it in different words
at a lower grade level:  "I am driving at the same average speed as the
clumping cars ahead of me, but I am getting better gas mileage and not
wearing out my brakes and my transmission."

Some tailgaters have this obsession that anybody who allows the
following distance to go over 3-4 seconds must be a slow driver.  I
think they have a missing gene, the one that makes you understand basic
physics.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
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