Thread: drafting semi's
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Old 10-26-2013, 08:47 AM   #78 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jakins View Post
Maybe i was exagerating. i dont remember. I don't want to sound like a douche but our cars have way better stopping power then a 18wheeler. I try not to stay way to close to where the truck driver gets frustrated and uncomfortable and starts trying to scrape me off the back of him, but I do like getting close enough to feel a difference. What I'm doing is deffinetly reasonable. All though I deffinetly make some pretty bone headed disicions on the road at times
It's not that cars have better stopping power. It's the fact that at these speeds and distances, your reaction time (on seeing his brake lights) is not fast enough to hit the brakes before you hit the semi.
No offense mate, but to me this sounds like one of those boneheaded ones.
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