ANSWERS: 5
  • A car lengths ahead IS TOO CLOSE!! If the guy in front of you has to jam on his breaks, you wouldn't have a prayer of avoiding a rear end collision.
  • the "way more" part probably tells why you got the ticket? which is crucial lol but you can usually win traffic violations, just have to have a good legal standpoint or a good lawyer
  • Here's the way more part. Hopefully I have enough room to type. I was going the speed limit on Osceola Parkway. The same cop flew by me going over the limit obviously. Well near Osceola/Buena Ventura I see him slowing down. I do as well to get in the speed limit. Then he gets out of his turn lane and gets behind me as I went straight. He follows me from there too Osceola/Waters Edge where I get pulled over. I says I kept up with him the whole time and he was responding to a call (he had no lights on the whole time until he pulled me over.) I didn't get the ticket for supposedly speeding. Now I'm bad at judging distance so I may have had more than a car's length. I just know that I had enough time to stop.
  • If you were going ten miles per hours, your safe. If you were going forty, you should have four car lengths, in between, for safe driving.
  • On following distance.. During normal driving a good driver with fast reactions will take about 1 seconds to react to the brake lights of the car in front of him and 1 second to get his foot on the brake if they are paying full attention. This is a total of 2 seconds, best case. At 30 MPH a vehicle is travling 44 feet per second. This means that you will travel 88 feet in the time it takes to begin to slow down. If you make a car length equal to 15 feet, this amounts to 5.866 car lengths. At 60 the distance doubles to 11.73 car lengths. The police officer probably used the "two second rule" as you were driving and you came up short. The ticket is just you against him. Unless you have very compelling evidence you were more than seconds behind the other car, you will have a hard time fighting it. Good luck

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