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Two seconds is a very standard rule of thumb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-second_rule

And if you've ever actually encountered a queue behind a slow vehicle, you'll know that leaving too much of a gap will cause undertaking luxury German cars to magnetically be sucked into it (no fault if their drivers of course, its all done in the engine control software I hear), suddenly leaving you with 1 second of gap, until you can ease off and grow the gap gently without having the car behind you pile into your rear end.

Either way, the separation in free traffic is hugely greater than in any queue.




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