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PhilDAS
Greenbank
Dunno where you get this idea that cars require more distance to stop than bikes. The opposite is true, by quite a large margin.
The highway code isn't a good source for this. It claims 14m braking distance from 30mph but for a modern car it's typically less than 10m.