I’ll start. Stopping distance.
My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.
For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…
What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?
My huge pet peeve - I tell my wife that people blank out and try to ‘choose their own adventure’ rather than sticking to a single lane through the intersection.
It’s so wildly dangerous to change lanes in an intersection, but people find it easier to adopt a ‘fuck you’ mentality while driving. There was a similar post to his on reddit a few years ago, and when this was pointed out it rapidly devolved into name calling.
Damn shame driving is so integral to the layout of the US.