The 2 second rule

This is why you are supposed to follow at least 2 seconds behind the driver in front of you.

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I have seen some scary stuff on the road. Like MY OWN 16' extension ladder that came off my truck on I-95. Couple of days ago, saw a short, thick, driveshaft on 95. About 100 yards up the road was a big box truck, missing the rear section shaft. And two cars with flat tires.

I thought this was about dropping food on the floor and then eating it. (not that I would ever do that...)

Maroon92 wrote: I thought this was about dropping food on the floor and then eating it. (not that I would ever do that...)

Me neither. With three dogs, I have no chance of getting to it first.

Maroon92 wrote: I thought this was about dropping food on the floor and then eating it. (not that I would ever do that...)

Couldn't be that. At two seconds I'd never be fast enough. The dog is somewhat picky. So if it's not something she likes, I'd still have a chance.

If he was closer it would have gone right around... I say this is a rally cry for the 0.2 second rule.

You tell em, Walter!

I want to know why he was filming in the first place..

pretty scary stuff though.

My uncle went through something scary like that. Brand new ElDorado (less than 1000 miles new) was going up to the UP of Michigan to see his family. Truck going the other way lost a hub off of a trailer. He watched it tumble across the median and slam into the front of his car. Next thing he knew, the car was verticle and then came down hard.. minus the front suspension and drivetrain.

The Hub literally ripped everything out of the front of his car and sent him airborne.. somehow he managed to come to a stop in the median without hitting anything else

She was filming because trucks purportedly driving dangerously. Guess guy hauling trailer had enough of tailgaiting with camera

Maroon92 wrote: I thought this was about dropping food on the floor and then eating it. (not that I would ever do that...)

Me too. My first thought upon seeing the title was, I thought it was the five second rule!. Maybe I'm just grosser than you.

That happened a few minutes from where I work. A small piece of steel plate fell off the back of a truck, went through a windshield, and took half the guys head off. It happens so fast you can't do a thing about it.

Heard about this one on the radio. Got wood? "Why yes, Sir. It went straight through the window."

why was that being recorded in the first place?

16vCorey wrote:

Maroon92 wrote: I thought this was about dropping food on the floor and then eating it. (not that I would ever do that...)

Me too. My first thought upon seeing the title was, I thought it was the five second rule!. Maybe I'm just grosser than you.

five second rule for food droppage. i thought this thread would be about the cone penalty.

I saw this on the local news last night:

Driver in St. Paul survives rock dropped through windshield. Man coming from work was on U.S. 52 when 7-pound stone apparently tossed from overpass.

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_17779207

http://ca.jalopnik.com/5789082/the-scariest-car-crash-ever-caught-on-video-was-real

Jalopnix said they got the exclusive scoop? I saw the interview on GMA or Today. I guess exclusive means different things to different people.

I once narrowly missed a bouncing hammer going down I-95 at 70 mph. True story.

many many yrs ago (1970 I think) I'm driving home (to WNC) from Norfolk on US 58 just before I turned S on 85... following a tow truck with car lifted by the front end... before the incident I actually saw that the drive-shaft was disconnected at the transmission (I therefore assumed it was an AT that was being towed)... at about the same time those thoughts were running through my head I saw strap holding the drive-shaft break.... sparks flew for a few seconds... I instinctively slowed down.. good thing.. next thing I saw was the drive-shaft dig in .... a crack, a pothole... something..... the car was jacked straight up in the air .. the drive-shaft ripped loose, the rear u-joint snapped and the shaft comes tumbling towards me.... not really just seemed like it, since I was still going 45 +... I will say that through no great skill on my part me and my 1950 Plymouth managed to miss this lost part .. the car slammed back to earth caused the tow truck to jack-knife into the guard rail and end up on it's side... I stopped .. no one was hurt so on towards home I went...

had I not been observing the 2 sec rule...

I wonder what kind of ticket she should be getting for video taping while driving. Then there's "following too close".

5 seconds, thats all I get? that rule apparently originates from Genghis Khan's court where he forbade people from eating meat that had been on the ground for more than 24 hours ... supposedly.

In other news my parents took a 5"diameter rock in the windshield of my mom's C5 (did not penetrate), it bounced across 3 lanes of traffic along a busy "causeway" they were mostly happy it didn't come through the convertible top.

I came across an entire truck bed in the middle of the highway once. it looked like it had just been painted.

Wow. Several years ago, a buddy was riding down to Florida on a 'Wing, he was woolgathering and not paying attention. The truck ahead of him 'jumped' a little bit and a CAR HOOD came out from under it. He said all he could do was watch it as it flipped, it was nearly back on the ground when he hit it. He and I rode dirt bikes together for years, he said he stood up on the pegs in a low crouch and went 'babump' across it as if it were a set of small bumps.

Another buddy ran over a mattress in a similar way only he was driving an LTD. The worst one I remember: when I worked for the Ford dealer in the late '80's, there was an Aerostar van locked up in the back corner of the parking lot. It was involved in a lawsuit; it seems that the Vulcan 3.0 V6 could fling the crank pulley off. It happened with this particular car, the pulley bounced out from under the van and went throught the windshield of the car behind, killing the driver. The worst part of that was we had seen more than one Aerostar and Taurus with those engines have wobbly loose crank pulleys. I still give them a wide berth to this day.

Wow, now that's a death that you can't prepare for. How terrible it would be to lead a cautious life only to die by chance.