# Is confirmation bias used to freely?

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**Created:** [October 8, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-confirmation-bias-used-to-freely/700802 "2014-10-08T22:06:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-confirmation-bias-used-to-freely/700802/16 "2014-10-09T06:37:39Z")

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A safe following distance is 4 seconds, but you don’t need that much because you are an experienced driver.

keep that in mind the next time you drive past a 5 car pile up and see all those teen drivers exchanging info.

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