When should you increase your following distance?
Answer:
Watch when the rear of the vehicle ahead passes a sign, pole or any other stationary point.
Count the seconds it takes you to reach the same sign, pole, or stationary point (one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two).
You are following too closely if you pass the stationary point before one-thousand-two.
Reduce speed and then count again at another stationary point to check the new following interval. Repeat until you are following no closer than "three-seconds."
After practicing, guess how many seconds away you are from an object and then count the seconds it takes to reach the object to see how accurate you are.
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