> Speaking from the UK, if you leave a safe stopping distance on a motorway then, invariably, the gap will be filled quickly with another car. Absolutely corre

> Speaking from the UK, if you leave a safe stopping distance on a motorway then, invariably, the gap will be filled quickly with another car. Absolutely correct. It is then your responsibility to put a safe stopping distance between yourself and _that_ car. You are in a death machine surrounded by other death machines. Sometimes you have to choose the less convinent option.