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This refers to following distances, and the rule of thumb is one car length for every 10 MPH of speed. 50 MPH = 5 car lengths, but these days you're more likely to find five cars in there...

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What is the recommended rule for following a car at the speed of 65 mph?

The rule of thumb is to maintain on car length for each ten miles of speed. Sixty five MPH would require a separation of 6.5 times one car length, of six and one half car lengths.


What is safe speed?

as posted or weather conditions and location. and keep one car length for every 10 miles per hour speed.


How many tenths of a second equates to how many car lengths?

That depends on vehicle speed. At 60 mph a vehicle covers 88 feet in one second. It also depends on the length of the car, but assuming the average car is 15 feet in length, it takes less than 2 tenths of a second to travel one "car length" at 60 mph. So in one second, the average car covers almost 6 car lengths! Double the speed - 120 mph - and that same car covers 176 feet in one second; more than half the length of a football field.


How do you figure out the speed of a car?

you figure out the speed of the car by taking the time it was taking to get to you and the estimated distance that car was away from you.


How far back does your vehicle need to be from an emergency vehicle in pursuit?

one car length for each ten miles/hour speed


What is the safe following distance when traveling by road?

Try one car length for every 10 miles per hour of speed.


What is safe distance between cars driving on roadway?

One car length for every 10 miles per hour of speed.


How much is 1 car length?

It is the length of one car, usually just an average.


What is the size of the adjustment factor is you are traveling at 93 percent of the speed of light?

It's 0.36756 (rounded). (That's sqrt[1-v2/c2].)At that speed,-- the length of your car shrinks to 36.8% of its length in the garage,-- the clock in the car runs at 36.8% of the correct speed, and-- the masses of the car and everything in it are 1/0.36756 = 2.72 timesthe masses they had before the car started moving.


How affect the length a car the speed?

# it is almost 2000-3000 # it also somtimes is 500000 #


What is the recommended safe following distance as expressed in car lengths?

a metre or a car lengthAdded; (in the US) one car length for every 10 miles-per-hour of speed.


What do the arrows look like on a picture of a car moving at a steady speed?

They will be of the same length and size.