• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think my biggest pet peeve about driving is when you come to a stop and the car behind you tries to shove their nose up your ass. Like bruh you don’t need to ever be that close

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      6 months ago

      Especially annoying if you’re driving a manual and are stopped on an incline.

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        6 months ago

        I drive a 6 speed. This is where my rage for this comes from.

        But even in automatics rollback isn’t uncommon on an incline.

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          6 months ago

          I can usually set off on an incline with no rollback but I’ll be damn if it doesn’t slightly stress me out every time someone pulls that shit.

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      6 months ago

      My driving instructor taught me that I should still be able to see the other car’s back wheels when I stop. I actually don’t know how close that looks from the other driver’s perspective.

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      6 months ago

      At a stop? Who cares? Can’t being closer together at a stop light at least help with intersections? I guess it depends on the city.

      If you’re driving a manual and you roll back on a stop, you shouldn’t be driving a manual. Unless you live in like San Francisco I guess? In the Appalachian region, cops will stop you for rolling back.

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        6 months ago

        Ever heard of clear distance? If you’re at a stop and someone rear ends you and you hit the car in front of you you are at fault and will be held liable.

        As for the rollback in my state they’ll again look at distance. Because if I don’t have enough space to back up because you’re too close you’re once again at fault for not having clear distance.

        On top of all that it helps move traffic along faster. You don’t have to wait as long to accelerate if you maintain distance because you don’t have to wait for the car in front of you to move far enough to start accelerating.

        Getting bumper to bumper has zero benefits outside of the false psychological feeling of forward progress.

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        6 months ago

        So you can hit the car in front of you too?

        It’s not only a safety hazard but it leads to slower traffic. If you maintain the right distance at a stop the whole line of cars can accelerate faster because you don’t have to wait as long for the car ahead of you to move. There are zero actual benefits of sniffing my ass at a stop.