Originally Posted by
MumblesBadly
While it was a frustrating experience, overall it was a fair outcome. And congrats on not getting any points.
Now, in regards to having to slam on your brakes to avoid rear-ending the car in front of you while driving in Canada...
https://www.travelers.com/resources/...owing-distance
This is great in theory, but it doesn't really work when driving on a lot of roads, because if you create a large space in between you and the next vehicle, on a single-lane-each-direction highway, people are going to pass you and jump in front. Then what? Slow down again to create a 3-second space? Rinse and repeat? No thanks.
In practice, very few people maintain this amount of space (or anything near it) on semi-crowded one-lane highways where the speed of traffic is approximately the speed limit.