Do You Think The Lesson Was Learned 3128John Gaquin Then I'm against it, and I doubt that the founding fathers envisioned anything even close to what we've come to. They probably never envisioned such a large...
Do You Think The Lesson Was Learned 3130Larry Bud No, the term is "obstructing" traffic. So if you could find the code in your state I'd be interested... When it seems "other people" are the problem, it's most...
Sorry, the accident every other six minutes that one can hear about by listening to KNX 1070 AM's traffic reports shows that it's a VERY GOOD IDEA to brake whenever someone moves in front of them.
In my case, I use a three second following distance, even in so-called bumper-to-bumper traffic. If someone merges in front of me, that reduces my following distance depending on exactly how close they may have merged in front of me.
Whenever that following distance isn't three seconds and letting off the accelerator pedal isn't slowing down enough to restore the three second following distance, yes, I will brake.
Furthermore, it's the responsibility of the driver behind me to have a large enough following distance that they can also brake if necessary. If they don't, as clearly indicated by the lack of any visible road in front of them in my rearview mirror (and sometimes even the complete lack of headlights in the rearview mirror!) and-or their car's front end sharply dipping when they wait until the last minute to brake... then I increase to six seconds, and sometimes even eight seconds of following distance to compensate for their unsafe driving, until they get a clue, back off, and eventually pbutt on the left to tailgate someone else.
But it should already be common knowledge that driving isn't always about accelerate-accelerate-accelerate, go-go-go... and that's why there's a brake pedal adjacent to the accelerator pedal. To that extent, I use the middle lanes now whenever there are three or more lanes in the same direction because it's the left lane that has all the reckless speeders all following each other at less than a one second following distance. (Plus, a single big rig in the rightmost lane might as well serve as a rolling "lane closed" sign and I'm not willing to drive at 15 or 20 mph under the limit behind a slow big rig.)
As one might soon guess, inevitably, the traffic reports will report on a "multicar collision in lanes" or a "multicar collision in the center divider"... all because someone was too impatient to keep back and brake earlier.
Then, of course, traffic really slows down because of lane closures, and drivers once again following too close to allow traffic into lanes that is forced to merge out of the closed lanes due to the accident can blame themselves for the additional stop-and-go traffic or single-digit speeds.
