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Originally Posted by Zhawk
I always was taught the 2 second rule as a minimum. Make it 3 seconds or longer if in adverse conditions.
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The safest distance you can travel behind another vehicle would be if that vehicle is stopped where it is, can you stop between where you are and where they are.
But it is always possible to travel that kind of distance because people who pass you and then come back in front of your car.
In the big trucks we teach five seconds.