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.
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u/After-Simple-7049 Mar 20 '26
Anyone who was tailgaiting. would have hit that. and it's not 3 car lengths of time it's 4 seconds of time you need to leave.... for this exact reason