Utah Code 41-6a-711. Following another vehicle — Safe distance — Exceptions — Penalty
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(1) As used in this section, “connected platooning system” means a system that uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to electronically coordinate the speed and braking of a lead vehicle with the speed and braking of one or more following vehicles.
Terms Used In Utah Code 41-6a-711
- Highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of any nature when any part of it is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
- Operator: means :(49)(a) a human driver, as defined in Section
Utah Code 41-6a-102 - Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for the purpose of travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
- Vehicle: means a device in, on, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except a mobile carrier, as defined in Section
41-6a-1120 , or a device used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks. See Utah Code 41-6a-102(2) The operator of a vehicle:(2)(a) may not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having regard for the:(2)(a)(i) speed of the vehicles;(2)(a)(ii) traffic upon the highway; and(2)(a)(iii) condition of the highway; and(2)(b) shall follow at a distance so that at least two seconds elapse before reaching the location of the vehicle directly in front of the operator’s vehicle.(3) Subsection (2)(b) does not apply to:(3)(a) funeral processions or to congested traffic conditions resulting in prevailing vehicle speeds of less than 35 miles per hour; or(3)(b) the operator of a vehicle that is:(3)(b)(i) part of a connected platooning system; and(3)(b)(ii) not the lead vehicle.(4) A violation of Subsection (2) is an infraction.