Slowing down by reducing gas flow is the equivalent of stepping off the gas.
If that causes a rear-ender, the fault is not with the car is in front.
“Slowing down by reducing gas flow is the equivalent of stepping off the gas.
If that causes a rear-ender, the fault is not with the car is in front.”
The car in the rear is always at fault, so I agree with you.
But accidents happen when people act unpredictably, and/or if there is a significant speed differential.
If nobody ever slows to the posted speed limit at a given speed reduction area, a car automatically doing so would be an unpredictable act, a significant speed differential would exist, and accidents will occur.
By way of example, on the drive home this evening, there is an area on the parkway in which the posted limit slows from 40 MPH to 25 MPH at a sweeping S-curve. Traffic was light, and most of the drivers on the road were commouters who drive it every day, know every bump, and safely drive well above the limit.
Today, traffic was flowing at about 65 in a 40 MPH zone. At the S-curve, one car in the left lane slowed to 50 MPH (still twice twice the new posted limit), but he was STILL going slower than the rest of the traffic.
Suddenly, a half-dozen drivers are hitting their brakes and scrambling to pass him on the right on this S-curve. Since traffic was light, the road was dry and the sun was out, nothing untoward happened.
However, IF his car had automatically slowed to 25, there could have been a major pile-up.