In 2004, women's life expectancy exceeded men's life expectancy by 5.2 years, the smallest gender gap in life expectancy since 1946. Life expectancy for whites was five years greater than that of blacks. Life expectancy for black and white men and women was as follows: 1  Black male: 69.8 years.  White male: 75.7 years.
But, that's not always the case. Safe following distances vary according to traffic speed and weather conditions and according to the type of vehicle you're driving. In good conditions, you should allow 2 seconds between your car and the vehicle in front of you. Here's an easy way to work that out.
Some freeways have fixed point to point cameras 5km apart so you can't beat them by slowing down for the camera as they will get your average speed between the two points - same deal - 3 km over, fine. Cops will pull you over in their vehicles if they detect you speeding anything over about 4kmh over the speed limit. In Australia speed fining is all about blatant government revenue raising - this despite government propaganda calling them safety cameras.