I’ll start. Stopping distance.
My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.
For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…
What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?
I don’t give a fuck what you think, and nobody else does either. For the record though, I have probably read quite a lot more books than you have (or most people on Lemmy and Reddit and Twitter and Mastodon have even) in my decades on planet earth. I was reading adult fiction novels while I was still in elementary school in the 80s, for fun because we didn’t have Playstations and Youtube to hypnotize the brains of children back then. I’ve probably read in the ballpark of a thousand novels total but I haven’t been keeping an exact count.
I have even worked as a professional writer (journalist) but the simple reality is that literary excellence is not something you can really judge based on shitposting comments on a pseudo-anonymous website. This is all shit that we’re flinging against a public wall here.