• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Two car lengths? You absolute madman! That’s positively grotesque!

    For the purposes of this comment, I’m assuming that cars are about fifty feet long.

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      12 hours ago

      At 60mph with a 2 second following distance, you’d need about 176 feet, so you’d want 3 car lengths with 50 foot cars.