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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by Eliezer on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:30AM (#786691)
Except that this only gives you a linear amount of space with respect to your speed. You need space that goes as the square of the speed.
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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by eru on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @08:35AM (#787038)
Depends. For cancelling your reacting time you only need linear speed. And if the vehicle in front of you has the some breaking deceleration as you can achieve, that's fine.
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