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In the last couple of years I've been noticing more and more people leaving a whole car space between the front of their car and the threshold line or the car in front. Not only is it annoying to other drivers because of the increased tail-back and that it reduces the number of cars through the intersection during the green light interval, but most importantly many of the drivers aren't even on the magnetic detector loop.
Are driving instructors teaching people that they must be able to see the white line or the tyres of the car in front touching the road or something?
I just don't get this new phenomenon.
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Swaggie
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Shouldn't have anything to do with it, the RLC sensor loop is on the other side of the threshold line and that wouldn't account for the spaces two or three cars back in the queue.Originally Posted by Eevo
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Swaggie
Subscriberdont tell me, tell them!
Swaggie
Subscriberjust drive around, then reverse in front of them
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I feel like it sometimes, but there are now road rage laws.
Without incompetent drivers, we wouldn't have so much road rage!
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It can be annoying at lights. However I know a lot of people leave this gap in case they are rear ended and pushed into the car in front. If this occurs they are immediately partially to blame even though they have been pushed into the car in front. I know a lot of driving instructors are teaching this.
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They are taught that you are to see the reat tyres or white line on the road.
Plus if you get rear ended if you are that little bit back it might reduce you getting pushed into the car in front.
But, leaving an entire car space between you and the car infront is crazy and annoying though....
Leaving the space in front doesn't worry me as much as leaving the space and then moving forward after the traffic behind has all stopped. In my little Golf, the Bluemotion function means that the engine switches off when at a standstill and gearbox is in neutral.
So having to restart it, to shuffle forward two meters because the fool in front can't judge the gap they need achieves nothing except putting an unnecessary strain on my starting system, and my patience.
Master
Being as my Defender is usually the slowest vehicle in the lineup, if I'm not at the front, I'll leave a car space between me and the car in front. As I'm always watching the lights, I'll wait until the car in front of me is just about to move, then start moving off in first. I'll have a small amount of speed up, and usually am able to change into second as the car in front takes off (faster than I can do in first).
As long as the car behind me is as attentive as me (and I'm sure you would be), they will not be held up at all by this. In fact, they will progress through the lights faster than if I had not left the gap and started accelerating before the car in front of me.
This goes for me in the Defender. In the Daewoo or on the bike, there's no need to leave any more than the legal (1.5m - does anybody actually know this?!?!) or greater (if downhill) safe distance.
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