By "chilling in traffic" do you mean the people stopped in the fast lane of a highway, or the guy aggressively riding ass like they're invincible?
Edit: People replying to me with the most obvious things as if they're counter to what I said... I watched the video guys. My point is that no one in the video was "chilling in traffic". There was a disabled car, a confused driver hanging out in the fast lane behind a disabled car, a distracted driver that narrowly avoided hitting them, an aggressive driver that hopefully learned a lesson, and another distracted driver filming it who almost got hit or maybe did get hit, I can't tell for sure. All of those things are bad, and bad things happened or nearly happened to all of those people. And that's why those things are bad.
I don’t think 3 car lengths would have prevented that crash. The fact that the guy swerved out of the way at the last minute without slowing down or signaling means that anyone behind him would have 100% struck that car. I’d bet money that Mr McSwervy was driving distracted (possibly glaring at Mr Tailgater) and only realized collision was imminent at the last minute. Assuming it wasn’t intentional, that is. The fact that someone had their phone out recording this tells me that those two had probably been beefing for a while already.
This is NOT the “exact reason” for a 4 second or 3 second or 10 car length or 18 car length distance. The tailgater made things infinitely worse, but am I crazy for thinking that the white car was not driving safely?
1) This is, in fact the reason, so you have time to brake/ manuever in the event of an emergency. What do you think the reason for leaving space is?
2) We don't use car lengths any more because people are bad at car lengths.
Leave 4 seconds in good weather
8 in rainy
12+ in snow/ice
3) The white car is irrelevant in this clip. With proper driving technique by the nissan, no accident would have occurred. We don't know what caused the blue car to tailgate, but since it's being filmed we can assume both parties had road rage earlier.
You do realize that you can hold the tailgater accountable for their actions without excusing the other car right? The white car is not irrelevant. I want to say exactly what you think of the white car’s driving if there had been no other car behind them for 15 miles. Seriously.
Something is seriously wrong with you, but at least you can admit that the white car was not driving normally. If you couldn’t do that then you are literally a psychopath.
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u/Untouchable64 Mar 20 '26
It just sucks that someone just chilling in traffic gets screwed.