Road rules / 🇦🇺 speed
To check you are three seconds behind the vehicle ahead:
✓ ANSWER
Pick a fixed roadside object and count the seconds between the vehicle passing it and you passing it
When the car ahead passes a landmark, count 'one thousand and one…' — you should reach it no sooner than three seconds later.
All the options
- ✓Pick a fixed roadside object and count the seconds between the vehicle passing it and you passing it
- ✗Estimate the gap in car lengths
- ✗Measure the gap only when stopped
- ✗Watch the other driver's speedo
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