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Is that THROUGH, or INTO?

Once you are through it it is an irrelevance as to how big it is, or how fast it is closing, so I would bring this down to defining GAP, and the possibility of the rear vehicle making up enough space in the time you intend to stay in front to pose a risk.

Never for novices, evaluate for experienced drivers?
It's only another slant on pulling out from a side road into gaps in oncoming traffic - if you can quickly match your speed to a vehicle which has just passed, and the closing vehicle is far enough back, then ensuring you dont stall, or miss a gear, you make the manouvre on merit.

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That situation - get into L2 - and at an extra safe distance (met to many speed regulators recently , who slam on brakes),move as far to right as safe to do so ( don't forget the debris near barrier) -- flash .
Either pass as he moved over coz he/she couldn't/wouldn't/wasn't able to go faster(Last Corsa i drove , got my wrist slapped by Mrs B for speeding, lets just say it could get your licence revoked -1.2 16v), or move back into L1 and keep a respectfull distance from the wagon and wait till i could pass wagon and then see what numpty did.

Because --

1) I believe that only Shiphams make good sandwich fillers.
2) A second gained in this world , could mean an early entry into the next.[/b]

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Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

Sorry - I don't drive by numbers so my figures might not be 100% accurate but I do know how far it takes me to stop in varying conditions when I'm there through experience even if I couldn't tell you exactly how far away something is. I'd rather take this approach and rely on what I know than spend my time behind the wheel calculating distances and car lengths. Anyway, I might have a very long car....

I don't think any normal people do drive by numbers. And I quite understand if you made a mistake in specifying the gap. Ten car lengths sounds like a lot, but it doesn't look like very much at 70mph.

I wasn't intending to 'catch you out' and I'm sorry if it looked that way. My concern was to ensure that we were all working with accurate and reasonable information.

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