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Tom Gardner
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On 31/03/22 12:20, David Brown wrote:
And concentration
Driving is boring.
er. Safer
Even 3s wouldn\'t have been sufficient when an immovable
object materialises directly in your path.
On 31/03/2022 12:51, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 31/03/22 11:02, David Brown wrote:
On 31/03/2022 11:41, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 31/03/22 09:07, Martin Brown wrote:
Even time is relative in an emergency situation. I had a deer run out
in front of my car at 70mph on a narrow road. AT the time I\'d have
said there was 6s between me seeing it and the emergency stop 8\" from
the thing which then sauntered off into the undergrowth. But when I
played back the dashcam footage it was all over in 2s - just 48 frames.
I was driving at 50mph on a rural main road, 2s behind the
car in front.
When the car passes a stationary object, slowly say to yourself \"Only a
fool breaks the three second rule\" and see if you too have passed the
object.
It used to be \"two second\"; has it changed? [1]
It changes with age
And concentration
Driving is boring.er. Safer
Even 3s wouldn\'t have been sufficient when an immovable
object materialises directly in your path.
I remember those awful late night CoI shutdown \"adverts\",
mostly along the lines of \"don\'t let grandpa fall asleep
while smoking\", or \"don\'t fall off ladders\".
The \"only a fool breaks the #two second rule\" was the only
one that provided non-obvious important information. I
drummed that into my daughter
[1] Highway code rule 126 is still 2s.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-techniques-and-advice-for-all-drivers-and-riders-103-to-158#rule126