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Originally Posted by FRiSson
The number of airborne objects ejected by a car in front of you decreases radically with distance. So if you are in the habit of driving 20 feet from the car in front of you at highway speed, you will garner many times the number of impacts to you car that you would if you kept a greater distance. It probably decreases by a factor of ten if you double the distance to the car in front. In addition, try to stay out of the right lane, which tends to have a greater accumulation of debris and sand on the right margin. Lastly, maintain extra clearance from trucks and construction vehicles. In this case, tailgaters do get bad paint karma.
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Good advice. Also, as people become more and more enamored with their cell phones, I notice more and more people having trouble staying in their lanes. This causes them to disturb the little islands of debris that accumulate in the center of lanes and at the very edges. I can usually hear sand and small pebbles hit my car whenever someone veers out of their lane in front of me.