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$440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner
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I see you have never driven behind a pickup truck on a gravel road.
You don't even have to be on a gravel road. My van's windshield got cracked the other day simply from a pebble getting kicked up from a passing car.
I have actually, for several years of my life, which is how I know it doesn't cause that.
E: downvote this comment if you have never driven on a gravel road.
You've driven on a gravel road behind other cars and never had a windshield crack? Not even a rock chip?
Now I know you're full of shit.
Now I know you're full of shit.
Not you again. Yesterday you were annoying people about trump.
Immediate downvote.
I tend to "annoy" people about fascist dictators frequently but it's nice to know you have no counterargument and you downvote based on hate instead of the content of the comment itself.
If you're close enough to another vehicle on a gravel road that you're getting stones flicked up, there's no way that's a safe following distance, especially considering the increased stopping distances.
It's easy to armchair quarterback when you have the benefit of hindsight.
Go ride a motorcycle and then come back and tell us how many pebbles got enough in your direction, despite following at safe distances. I can assure you that you will be very surprised.
I have had nicks in my windshield due to gravel thrown up by vehicles traveling in the opposite direction.
gravel travels fairly far when the vehicles are going 50 mph
If you're going 50mph on a gravel road, you are fucking up.
if the government doesn't want me going 50 they wouldn't have set the speed limit to 45
Your safe following distance on gravel at 50mph is more than that. 3 seconds is your minimum following distances on normal surfaces (used to be 2, advice has changed), you should have a 4 second following distance on gravel. https://www.drive-safely.net/safe-following-distance/
Vehicles also skid very far at that speed.
Have you tried not doing that?
It's really as easy as not doing that.