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?

  • lorezEnglish
    186·
    1 year ago

    Speed limits. If it says 50 and I’m going at 50 honking is useless.

    • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      And while I understand it’s annoying, if someone is going at 48 in front of you, the time you will save by overtaking them isn’t even enough for a whole ad. But if the circumstances don’t allow for a safe overtake and you still risk it, you may lose more than an ad.

      • TeckFire@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        I think most people in that scenario are moreso annoyed that they can’t go the full speed than caring about how long it actually takes to go there. People just like driving fast, so arguments like this will never get through to those types of people

        • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know why they downvoted you; I’m also sure many people (if not all) think like that, but especially the way you worded it, it sounds even more ridiculous to me now:

          68 mph: - “What is this idiot doing? This is hella slow, Imma overtake them.”

          71 mph: - “I’m fast as fucc boiiii”

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Also it is a maximum limit.

      Know what other speeds you may drive there? 40, 30, 25, 15, 10, even 5.

      Know what speeds you are not allowed to drive there? 51

      • lorezEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Here in Italy there’s not a minimum limit but you cannot cause problems to the other drivers by driving too slow.

        • TeckFire@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Same for most US states. You can’t slow down to the point of causing traffic to be slow or causing brake-slamming