Ok when you are stopped at a light are you suppose to move in as close as you can to the car in front of you.

Question

Ok when you are stopped at a light are you suppose to move in as close as you can to the car in front of you.

Answer 1

The driver who taught me said you should be able to see the rear wheels on the road...

Answer 2

Years ago, the instructor who taught me to drive told me that when stopped, you should be far enough from the car in front to see his rear wheels over the hood of your own car. I don't know if this is a legal rule or just a rule of thumb. But it makes sense to me. That way, if he stalls, you have room to get out of the lane without reversing.

Answer 3

stop far enough back to see the rear wheels of the vehicle ahead of you.

Answer 4

AAA teaches to leave the room so you can see the wheels on the ground of the car in front of you.  this allows you to get out if the car in front of you stalls or if someone tries to jack you.

Answer 5

No...........you should be able to see 1 foot from the top of your hood to the bottom of the car rear tire that is in front.........

Answer 6

No. You are supposed to leave some space in front of you.

Answer 7

No you are not to move in as close as you can to the car in front of you when you are stopped at a light. You are to maintain a distance of half a car.  

Answer 8

No because if the person behind you fails to stop on time and crashes into you, you will be responsible for the damages to the car ahead of you. Always leave atleast one to two car lengths space in front.

Answer 9

There is no set rule on how far you should stop behind the vehicle in front. A lot of cars have their exhausts pointed straight back. If you get too close, you could be inhaling some nasty stuff. To keep this from happening, I try to keep about 10-15 ft back from all vehicles. Still a judgment call.

Answer 10

I agree with one of the posters that you need to leave some space between you and the car in front of you. Stopping just where you see the tires of the front car virtually resting on your hood is a good rule of the thumb. It assures you that there's at least half of car distance between the two of you. It's not too far that it will encourage other drivers to cut you off and it's not too close that you wouldn't have a buffer in case something goes wrong.

I've been in situations where the car in front of me reverses after stopping to clear the crosswalk or sometimes it changes lanes even though it's not supposed to. Giving them this space is a good enough buffer to ensure safe driving. Also saves me money on insurance since from where I'm from, it would be automatically MY fault even if the front car reverses into me because that would count as me rear-ending his ... and I shouldn't be that close to him on stops in the first place ..  

Answer 11

Definitely a no, no. You should stop at little more than the length of a car behind.

Answer 12

Not too close, as they might have a standard transmission and roll back onto you when they are shifting into gear. Good rule of thumb, if you can't see the license plate or bumper in front of you, your too close.

Answer 13

Well buses are allowed, so why not cars.

Well, in fact you have to make sure there is about 1.5 feet (about the same length as the capability to see the rear wheels) between the car, to snsure that the car won't reverse or roll back and hit the front of your car.