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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
I too was put off by the word "steal," since it's not a word I would ever use in this context. … I literally didn't understand what you meant, and I didn't even think of the possibility that you meant the distance between the speaker and the car ahead of the speaker.
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I can’t argue about the most natural way to say it, since it’s been years since I’ve driven or even been in the US, but oddly enough, I never doubted for a moment what was meant.