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[eurohazard]

Those are decent practices, but you can't live by those. The trick is knowing the situation, and knowing which technique to use.

The "wave" only works sometimes. If someone is leaving a "huge gap" in the kind of traffic, then they are part of the problem, not the solution. The goal in heavy traffic is to move all of the cars as quickly as possible.....one driver wasting space will only worsen the problem by lessening the vehicles on the main roadway at any one time. It is selfish, those people who do the extremes of 8-10 car length gaps.


When I drive (typically), I accelerate the same pace as the person in front of me. Say when we are stopped, I leave a 1/2 car length gap......well I damn near maintain that same gap until the person has reached their cruising speed....at which point I start backing off to a more reasonable distance. I can get away with this though because I am one of the most alert drivers I know. I never make eye-contact with my passengers......my eyes are ALWAYS on the road, and I never talk on my cell phone while driving.