Quote Originally Posted by def90 View Post
Back when I took drivers ed back in the 80's we were taught to leave a car length between yourself and the car in front of you. I stay close but with the way people drive around Denver/Boulder you need to leave enough space so that you can bail from a lane where someone is surfing the internet on their phone ahead of you at a stop light.
Well that is when you are driving. One car length per every 10 miles per hour.

People today are leaving multiple car lengths while stopped at at stop sign/light.

I think they are doing this, so they can go read their text messages, but for all I know drivers ed is teaching them this *expletive*

-John