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What driving concept you feel that most drivers don't understand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TeckFire@lemmy.world to c/cars@lemmy.world

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I’ll start. Stopping distance.

My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.

For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…

What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When merging onto a highway you have to press the gas pedal.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This one annoys me soo much. I drive a slow vehicle. Probably 20 seconds 0-60. I can get it up to highway merging speed by the end of the on ramp 100% of the time. Why the fuck can't Mr. Twin Turbo Ecoboost manage that?

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have no idea. Maybe acceleration offends their delicate sensibilities? Maybe they like to disrupt the flow of vehicles?

[–] NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Mine's quite a bit worse, when it's cold it takes me about a minute to get up to speed (won't shift into 4th cause of a sticky solenoid), but unfortunately the turn onto our highway is just a stop sign and not a ramp. So i have to wait for a big opening to go onto it safely