Terrible, terrible advice. That leaves a full car-length of empty pavement with the driver sight-lines of modern SUV and crossover designs. Pickup trucks are worse; I've seen pickup truck drivers stop a full 30 feet back. It wastes huge amounts of space on the street, and causes traffic congestion. On the other side of the coin, van and bus drivers can still get right up on your ass when following this advice.

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Not actually as the "see the tires" rule is fairly good advise. Keep in mind sometimes it is smarter to give a little more space depending on the situation. Think of it as more of a minimum. Also lose most of your speed farther back and then role forward. This allows for recovery time in case of failure or loss of traction.

Then get out and suck my tailpipe but stay off my ass lmao

Ever heard of clear distance? If you're at a stop and someone rear ends you and you hit the car in front of you you are at fault and will be held liable.

As for the rollback in my state they'll again look at distance. Because if I don't have enough space to back up because you're too close you're once again at fault for not having clear distance.

On top of all that it helps move traffic along faster. You don't have to wait as long to accelerate if you maintain distance because you don't have to wait for the car in front of you to move far enough to start accelerating.

Getting bumper to bumper has zero benefits outside of the false psychological feeling of forward progress.

Never heard of that rule. I was always taught to leave enough space that you can see the bottom of their back tires.

I can't believe this comedy gold is not upvoted more. Maybe it needs /s?

So you can hit the car in front of you too?

It's not only a safety hazard but it leads to slower traffic. If you maintain the right distance at a stop the whole line of cars can accelerate faster because you don't have to wait as long for the car ahead of you to move. There are zero actual benefits of sniffing my ass at a stop.