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MetroMPG · 07-27-2016, 01:22 PM

If there's no escape route to the side, and no car yet stopped behind you, you don't stop at the back bumper of the car in front of you or at the stop line. Now your escape / crash mitigation room is the space you left in front of you.

Of course this assumes the car behind is actually braking.

07-27-2016, 01:22 PM	#103 (permalink)
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