In a message dated Tue, 20 Mar 2001  8:16:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, wb6otg <wb6otg@INTREX.NET> writes:

<< >3) Count to three.. if you are at the mark on the count of three or
>shortly there after, you will have safe stopping distance from the car
>in front if you are on dry pavement.

That's what they taught us in High School back in california many years ago.  The problem is that If you try that around here (NC), two people pull in front of you and one comes up 6 inches off your back bumper and flashes his lights!

Bill
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Only two?  In Houston there'd be four people trying to cram into that hole -- one from three lanes over -- and the guy a few inches behind you is driving a Ford F-350 SuperDuty Crew Cab Duallie with bush basher bumpers and a bunch of NASCAR stickers on the back window.  All five will be gabbing away on their cell phones -- at least two will be dialing or picking their phones up off the floor!

All told, I'd much rather drive the Vanagon Road Buffalo than my wife's Accord though (even if it is the screaming V-6 model) -- even a moron can recognise a Vanagon as a slow lumbering beast and avoid it.

Chuck
'85 Wolfsburg Westy -- 'Roland the Road Buffalo'