What driving concept you feel that most drivers don't understand?
What driving concept you feel that most drivers don't understand?
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?
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The risk undertaken to make a short trip at 20mph over the speed limit isn't worth the few minutes it might save. On paper it seems like it would save a lot but the reality of inevitable stop lights and traffic cause different results.
Well, it would save a significant amount of time on a long trip, like my commute, where about 80 miles of my one way trip are all highway. At 70mph average, that distance is 1 hour and 8 minutes. At 80, it’s an hour, and at 90, it’s 53 minutes. Could very well be the difference of being very late or on time for work.
That said, there’s more job opportunities out there than lives one has…