Why you should keep to the 2 second rule
The 2 second rule: Keep at least 2 seconds between you and the car infront of you. It's saved me from avoiding a few accidents but this one is still the best.

Driving along the motorway one fine day, keeping my distance from the car infront, when I notice hte traffic getting alot heavier very quickly. Everyone siuddenlt slams on their brakes and I follow suit. As I;m franticly braking I start to hear a rythmic "crump" ing sound and notice through the windows of the cars infront of me bonnets and boots popping up. As I come to rest I find I'm still a safe distance from the car infront (I can see their rear tyres) luckily the car behind me also manages to avoid ploughing into the car infront, but the not the car that one, or the one behind that.

I managed to squeeze my way out into another lane and survey the damage. 7 cars infront of me all bashed in bumper to bumper and an unkonwn amount behind me.

I drove off feeling overly proud of myself.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 15:32, 10 replies)

I hate how every morning driving to work
and crossing a river every car slows down over the bridge as if the river is a novelty - EVERY MORNING. Criminy, it was there yesterday and likely from time immemorial.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 15:34, closed)

I follow the two second rule
Though how I kept up with that Porsche I'll never know.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 15:35, closed)

so... instead, you rubbernecked past them...

( likeajackhammer, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 16:09, closed)

I always wondered
If you come to a safe stop in this situation, but then someone shunts you in the rear(!) and propels you into the car infront, how would you prove it?
(Spamuel, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 16:36, closed)

you could probably prove it from the fucking mess at the rear of you car
in pile ups it's a nightmare.
you claim from the guy who shunted you, who in turn claims from the guy who shunted him, who in turn etc etc

obviously, then it becomes a case of "did your distance from the car in front have a bearing on the crash" and "how hard was the impact"

normally, the guy at the back of the queue is fucking screwed.
( likeajackhammer, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 16:46, closed)

the insurance company will ask the guy infront
if he felt one bang or two.

Two bangs would mean you hit him, then got hit be the driver behind, one bang that the guy behind hit you first.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 20:02, closed)

while being 're-educated' for driving too fast
We were all taught how speeding's bad (m'kay) and all that, and they showed us the two-second rule advert which I hadn't seen since I was about 8, or an updated version of it, and the instructor used the phrase as used in the advert:

'Only a fool breaks the two-second rule'

and only briefly in passing did he mention that it takes about two seconds to say that. I mean sweet zombie jesus, it took me thirty years for hat penny to drop, so I'm either dead slow (and therefore one of those children crossing) or that's a terrible way to spread that message.

(Other handy everyday measurements include: 2p piece=1 inch diameter, and one verse of happy birthday = 10 seconds, or about three hours if it's being sung to you, in a pub, with everyone looking at you)
(GoodLord doesn't have time for sigs., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 18:22, closed)

"It takes just two seconds to say it"
is a line in the feckin' advert!
( Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 0:06, closed)

Motorcycle class taught me
to make it a 3-second rule. I follow it in my car, too. Seems to work alright.
( intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 21:42, closed)

"It's saved me from avoiding a few accidents "

What? Shouldnt that be "helped me to avoid...."
(Freakmandu, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 11:33, closed)