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> When somebody starts overtaking, the better acceleration he has, the safer he can do the maneuver. If you overtake someone while driving in an oncoming lane,
by maccard 6y ago
> When somebody starts overtaking, the better acceleration he has, the safer he can do the maneuver.
If you overtake someone while driving in an oncoming lane, and cut it close enough that the emergency braking of a modern car cuts in, you didn't have enough room to perform the maneouver in the first place. Even safer than performing the dangerous maneouver is not performing it in the first place.
This is coming from someone who regularly drives a stretch 150 mile long road with many parts of the road where dangerous overtaking maneouvers are the only way to overtake, and you're sharing the road with articulated vehicles speed limited to 10mph lower than you on steep hills. The choic is always to _not_ make the maneouver.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI think he's talking about AEB engaging on the car you're trying to pass. If you are overtaking on a 2-lane you want to back up, wait for your opportunity and close on the vehicle to be overtaken at a decent rate of speed before pulling into the other lane in order to minimize time in the wrong lane. Also if the other person decides to be a dick and try and prevent you from passing this gives them less of an opportunity to do that. If AEB forced me to get in the other lane before stepping on it because it thought I was gonna rear end the car about to be passed I would be very annoyed.