🚀 go-pugleaf

Rahul Dhesi wrote:

>>Two seconds is a lot of space around here.  I find that with watching
>>the vehicles in front of the guy in front of me, one and a half is
>>plenty.  More than that and the space gets quickly filled up.  If you
>>can screech your tires at highway speeds by accelerating, that must be
>>one hell of a car you're driving.
>
>Confusion between space and time.
>
>I maintain my following distance to have sufficient time, not sufficient
>space.  Two seconds can be a LOT of space depending on the speed, but
>it's not a lot of time.  It's always two seconds of time.  I much prefer
>three seconds.

Two seconds at highway speeds provides a lot of space, surely you can
figure that out.  If you leave more than that, it gets filled up
quickly.  

>As an example suppose you were flying an airplane at supersonic speed.
>If you were following another airplane at two seconds, that would be a
>lot of space indeed -- but it would still be only two seconds of time.
>Do you have any idea why the FAA keeps aircraft at such distances away
>from one another?  It's not because they need the space, it's because
>they need the TIME.

If you are truly watching the cars ahead of the car in front of you
then you should have much more time than those 2 or 3 seconds to
react.

>*Sigh* Tailgaters simply cannot follow the logic of basic physics.

What makes you assume I am a tailgater?  Is that how you describe
anyone who wishes to travel faster than you?  I won't tailgate, but I
will flash my brights.  As an LLB, why can't you follow the logic of
slower traffic keep right?
-- 
Brandon

"Spooooooooooonnnnn!"