The 2 Second Rule
Not so Close! When was the last time you were tailgated on the freeway? If you said “the last time you were on it”, I wouldn’t be surprised. How close behind you was your tailgater? 10 feet? 5 feet? Could you even see the front of their car? How close is “too close” at highway speed? Traveling at 60 mph, your car is moving at a rate of 1 mile every 1 minute. If you divide the 5280 feet in every mile by the 60 seconds in a minute, that means your car is moving 88 feet per second! It only takes about 1/10th of a second to blink your eye, meaning that in the blink of an eye, your...
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