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I'm finishing up another trip home to Connecticut.

Was fortunate enough to see the snow and enjoy winter. Cue the Progressive commercial. I got to shovel the driveway three times over the weekend.

I am somewhere between interested, curious, and intrigued at the different levels of effort Nutmeggers put in to cleaning snow off of car before they hit the road.

There is a range from pristine cleaning of frint windshield down to barely a square big enough to see through. Some leave the snow on the roof, some don't bother cleaning off the passenger side. Some don't clean the rear window, they just let the wiper or rear defrost do what they can.
 
ctchamps said:
It's less about defending tailgating and more about you using the tailgating argument as a defense for not needing to remove snow off your car's roof if it has less than three inches of snow. People should be doing both things for safe driving. And the distance between cars should be adjusted depending on driving conditions.

You still have not admitted you are wrong in the five percent of times you don't have your car in the garage and snow is on the roof.

The way you approached this thread is to not back down on your failure. Yet you get angry when people persist on making claims how the BE stinks. You insist they change. But can't do so yourself when you're so obviously in the wrong.
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Exactly this! Imagine being related to this guy? Having to spend holidays with him. Brutal lol
 
pepband99 said:
Comparing apples and horses here. This is not tailgating, and the road conditions are being ignored.

Think of the different physics in play with a snow/ice sheet (which immediately turned into a sail brake, and had vertical movement, in addition to horizontal), and a moving car. This was not "2 seconds behind a car"
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The ice sheet was in the air less than 2 seconds, and it hit the front of the hood and windshield of a car. It is also worth pointing out that the car that was hit was passing other cars on the highway easily, implying a high rate of speed for that car. It didn't slow down, which increased the force of the impact.

You are literally defending tailgating with every post. Every single site that discusses winter driving or just driver's safety will tell you stay 3-4 seconds behind the car in front of you, more if there is any kind of difficult conditions. One of the benefits of staying back is that you can slow down and/or stop if something happens in front of you. The rear car could have avoided the situation by tapping its brakes rather than pass other cars on the highway.

The simple solution is: Do Not Tailgate. The second simple solution is: Slow Down.
 
I saw on the news this morning a clip from NJ where a guy had purchased an electronic drone type snowblower. Just set it and forget like a Roomba and your driveway is done. Supposedly can get up to 5000sf per charge while removing up to a foot of snow.
 
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Dutch Boyd said:
Exactly this! Imagine being related to this guy? Having to spend holidays with him. Brutal lol
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Leebo said:
If something flies off that car into the oncoming lane, would it be the oncoming car's fault for "tailgating"? That seems to be the only conclusion I can draw from the possibilities outlined in this thread.
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You bring up a great point. If snow on a vehicle moving one direction flies off in a different direction, it would definitely be a problem for another driver. If that snow converted itself into a hydrogen bomb and spontaneously detonated, that would also be a problem.

Don't tailgate.
 
Based on forecast it will be Feb 3rd before above freezing and my car is entombed in 6ft of ice and snow courtesy of plows and shovelers.

At least I don't need it for daily commute but will try chipping away at it little by little.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It is telling that in 6 hours no one has pointed out that all 3 cars on the right behind the white truck are tailgating.
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Probably because that's not tailgating. I drive on I-93 and I-84 quite a bit I know tailgating when I see it.
 
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Scoe said:
Probably because that's not tailgating. I drive on I-93 and I-84 quite a bit I know tailgating when I see it.
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I am assuming this post is trolling, because unless that line of cars is going 15 mph, they are tailgating. If they are going 40, as I assume, it could get them a reckless driving ticket if there was an accident.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I am assuming this post is trolling, because unless that line of cars is going 15 mph, they are tailgating. If they are going 40, as I assume, it could get them a reckless driving ticket if there was an accident.
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Nobody commented because nobody (including you) can actually say it's tailgating, definitively.
If anything, it's clearly in close proximity to an intersection, which brings in potential of being slower.
 
This thread has gotten me thinking about safe winter driving, and I am willing to admit that I was wrong.

I drove into the office without cleaning a single flake of snow off my car. The part I was wrong about was that 3 seconds, even on clear roads, is not enough to be behind the car in front of you because there are so many tailgaters on the highway that not only do I need to have enough time to be able to stop before hitting the car in front of me, but I need to be able to slow down gradually so the tailgaters behind me do not rear end me. 4 seconds behind is the right number.

The posters in this thread deserve the credit for bringing this to my attention. After reading so many of you justify your tailgating in this 9 page thread, I realized just how many people not only tailgate, but think that it is their right. I want to thank all of you guys for educating me on this topic. I will be a safer driver going forward.
 
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Plot twist: I just got back from the grocery store. I had a truck in front of me drop half a dozen basketball size chunks of packed wheel well ice from the underside of the truck.

Clean off the underside of your vehicles, people. Be considerate - clean the underside of your vehicles.
 
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Not going to start a new thread but here in suburban Boston, it's so cold that there is still black ice even on major roads. Car slid slightly twice this morning. Treatment of roads isn't enough because anything that melts refreezes. So be careful out there. We've seen major accidents on I-495 along my route to work each of the last two days. I assume it's the same in CT.
 
KingAG said:
Only 2 months out the year. The rest of the year is fantastic
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Sure. Arizona has about 150 days a year where it hits 100. It hits 90 in late March, and the first time it gets to 100 is around mid-April. It stays there until mid October, and doesn't drop into the 80's until November.

People love to talk about the "dry heat", but those "official highs" are the air temperature. In the sun, it will be hotter. You can't play golf in May in that kind of heat if you are over about 35. It is actually very dangerous if you are over 50.

Asphalt absorbs heat, so it is 40-60 degrees hotter on the street than it is in the air. There are days the asphalt can literally soften the soles of your sneakers, and you can burn your hands just losing your balance and putting your hand on the asphalt.

The atmospheric rivers in the last couple of years appear to have slowed the water loss, although any move in El Nino could turn that back. This is causing many areas to stop any new development. While that may seem like a positive, the fact that the government needs to stop new development because of water shortages is typically a bad leading indicator.

Have fun.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Sure. Arizona has about 150 days a year where it hits 100. It hits 90 in late March, and the first time it gets to 100 is around mid-April. It stays there until mid October, and doesn't drop into the 80's until November.

People love to talk about the "dry heat", but those "official highs" are the air temperature. In the sun, it will be hotter. You can't play golf in May in that kind of heat if you are over about 35. It is actually very dangerous if you are over 50.

Asphalt absorbs heat, so it is 40-60 degrees hotter on the street than it is in the air. There are days the asphalt can literally soften the soles of your sneakers, and you can burn your hands just losing your balance and putting your hand on the asphalt.

The atmospheric rivers in the last couple of years appear to have slowed the water loss, although any move in El Nino could turn that back. This is causing many areas to stop any new development. While that may seem like a positive, the fact that the government needs to stop new development because of water shortages is typically a bad leading indicator.

Have fun.
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Quit being selfish and clean the roof of your car.
 
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