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You are following a vehicle on a wet road You should leave a time gap of at least?
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If you are on a dry, clear road and you reach the same fixed point before you have said the 'two' then you are too close and need to drop further back, to create the essential minimum of a two-second gap. And if you prefer three seconds, rather than two, that's okay.
If you are on a wet road then you need to have at least a four-second gap.
And if it's icy or you are driving on compacted snow or somewhere you know that something slippery (such as diesel fuel) has been spilled, then it is wise to create at least a ten-second gap, so you would need to count all the way up to 'one-thousand-ten' before you reach the same fixed point that you watched the vehicle ahead pass. Yes, it will look like a huge gap, but who cares? Your life, or even your car merely being damaged, are worth more than the opinions of those who
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