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by _yb2s 795 days ago
People don’t intuitively notice speed, they see following distance as a proxy for speed: people with longer following distances are perceived as “driving slow” and they feel they are going faster if they tailgate. Both untrue, but almost universally assumed without a second thought
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Wow. I’ve been driving for 20+ years and never realized this is how some people think.