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Originally Posted by Clev
Fortunately all cars decelerate well enough to get out of that situation.
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Not necessarily. He was even with the rear wheels of the tractor, so to get to a safe position had to either move 10-15 feet ahead, or maybe 4 times that to the rear. Could he have decelerated quickly enough? Maybe, but then he'd have been moving very slowly, and thus risking a possible rear-ender from following traffic.