hattusilis
Banned
Especially around the curves on 17, always leave a lot of room between you and the vehicle that you're following. Everybody wants to crowd everybody else up on that road and hang off your rear wheel/bumper while race tracking through those curves and it is really commonplace for people to brake unexpectedly, whether it's because they're scared of the curve or because they're speeding into a solid mass of gridlocked traffic. One time I saw a bunch of people standing around the left lane on account of the fact that their luxury SUVs love tapped each other...
People like to bitch and moan about how they just can't maintain a sizeable gap but it will save your ass on that road. More space means more time and more time means more ability to correct your trajectory. That makes it less likely that you'll make some erroneous judgement that you can't get in between cars and, either way, it gives you more time to figure out where the best place to go is. People are always going to enter those curves way too fast and then try to brake down as they're turning. Being tailgated really hard through those curves is a given no matter what sort of vehicle you or the guy following you has. If you don't have that space in back of you then you need it in front.
That all being said you're pretty screwed if a large truck (or an idiot bus driver) just plows through everything in their path. It's really kind of a shitty road.
People like to bitch and moan about how they just can't maintain a sizeable gap but it will save your ass on that road. More space means more time and more time means more ability to correct your trajectory. That makes it less likely that you'll make some erroneous judgement that you can't get in between cars and, either way, it gives you more time to figure out where the best place to go is. People are always going to enter those curves way too fast and then try to brake down as they're turning. Being tailgated really hard through those curves is a given no matter what sort of vehicle you or the guy following you has. If you don't have that space in back of you then you need it in front.
That all being said you're pretty screwed if a large truck (or an idiot bus driver) just plows through everything in their path. It's really kind of a shitty road.
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