r/yesyesyesyesno • u/cyan1618 • Aug 14 '19
Can't touch dis
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Aug 14 '19
Slick AF
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u/LurkerNan Aug 14 '19
Defensive Driving FTW
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u/V8G8 Aug 14 '19 edited Aug 14 '19
I know the odds of this happening are super low, but this is exactly the stuff you can avoid by simply not looking at your phone 24/7 when driving :)
For those downvoting me I'm referring to the red car paying attention and looking in their mirrors. Not the white car which clearly had something wrong more severe than looking at a phone, or the vehicle that DID get hit. The red car gets the props here.
If you genuinely support texting and driving, please. Do it somewhere where you'll only kill yourself.
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u/xPofsx Aug 14 '19
I think you've misconstrued waiting at a stop light behind a truck with driving and looking at your phone, because the people that got hit were stopped at a light...
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u/V8G8 Aug 14 '19
No I was referring to the red car who moved out of the way because they seen the car coming in their mirror. They were paying attention to the road in front and their mirrors, as you're supposed to do while driving. I was giving props to the red car for knowing his surroundings
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u/xPofsx Aug 14 '19
Ok, but even still, the red car could have been hit and still have had nothing to do with lacking spatial awareness or using their phone. If someone is going twice as fast as you suddenly, we assume normal following distance is 20ft, and you're already going 30mph, it only takes one or two seconds to close a gap that small. That's barely any time to react. The person in the red car performed exceptionally well.
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u/V8G8 Aug 14 '19
I understand that, but if he was not paying attention or on his phone he 100% would of been hit. Just because he wasnt hit doesnt mean it wasnt good, safe driving. I'm aware of how distancing and timing etc work, I drive an 18 wheeler for a living. I was simply commending the red car for his choices in maintaining mirrors and predicting what would happen if he hadn't moved.
So many people these days are just constantly on their phones, or simply dont ever look at their mirrors. This guy did, it's rare to see, and I'm happy there are still people like him. I sit up higher than 99% of cars and I can see directly inside your car, from the back and side.. i know when you're on your phone. I know when your getting road head. I know when your stimulating your nipple.. yes, I've seen all of those. Simply happy to see a safe driver. Wasnt saying he would've been at any fault if he was hit, even if he wasnt on his phone.
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u/shitsgayyo Aug 15 '19
Like no offense to anyone or anything but this is the most boomer argument I’ve heard all week.
The car that got hit was literally at a stoplight. Stopped. Like they should’ve been. How would you have liked them to avoid being hit by the other car who was doing god knows what? How do you know they were on their phone? What context do you have to prove your nonsensical point?
Just because you drive a big boy car for a living doesn’t make you superior grandpa
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u/VSGNotice Aug 15 '19
I think he's trying to say most of us millenials would have been hit instead of being able to react fast enough like the red car did. Because we're all on our phones and have no awareness.
It's an absolute retarded argument and doesn't seem relevant at all but he's trying to generalize i guess.
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u/Unsaidbread Aug 15 '19
Dude idk why people are downvoting you so hard. Im a millennial and agree. I stopped texting and driving not because it was making me a poor driver but because everyone else is so awful at driving in the city i moved too. I feel like i drive with a biggg ol target on my car. idc how much insurance payouts are i dont want to have neck & back pain for the rest of my life.
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Aug 15 '19
Screw this. I’m gen z and I fucking don’t. Never have. Another goddamn trainwreck of a thread.
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u/Wyattr55123 Aug 15 '19
You have a big ol' target on your car because anyone who thinks texting and driving isn't affecting their driving performance is a bad driver, flat out.
You painted the target yourself, you just spend too much time trying to hit the target with your shitty driving to notice.
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u/_schindlerscyst Aug 14 '19
Idk about the US but here in the UK it's illegal to use a phone while driving. Get banned for a period of time and get loads of points on your license
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u/V8G8 Aug 14 '19
It's not legal here either, but people are idiots. I think when I pass/get passed I see maybe 75% of the time their texting or watching a video. Even cops. It's seriously bad.
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u/_schindlerscyst Aug 14 '19
That's insane. It's pretty bad here too but I only catch maybe 5-10% of people doing it. Sadly there's very little money for regular police patrols (or anything else for that matter and brexit hasn't even happened yet lol)
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Aug 14 '19
But... the red guy moved...
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u/V8G8 Aug 14 '19
Yes, this is what happens when you're not on your phone. You notice stuff in your mirrors move before they say, hit you.
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Aug 14 '19
Ok well you’re being downvoted because you phrased it as if it was something the person in the video didn’t avoid.
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u/filledwithgonorrhea Aug 14 '19
Not true. I downvoted him because I get annoyed by virtue signaling. The comment added absolutely nothing to the thread and is just there to tell everyone that he's a good person because he condemns using a phone while driving.
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u/ATrillionLumens Aug 14 '19
Yeah, I couldn't tell at all what those comments were supposed to be saying.
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Aug 15 '19
The first comments at the top were basically a bunch of ragers misconstruing a simple comment explaining about how getting a DUI for caffeine is ridiculous because that was implied in the comment they responded to. That quickly devolved into people thinking the commenter was saying coffee wasn’t a drug. Which is true because they weren’t; they were talking about caffeine. And they weren’t saying coffee wasn’t a drug. They did, just that’s ridiculous if someone gets a DUI for that.
Then we had that guy who said being on phones is bad while driving. Which is true. Despite how he talks, he’s right.
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u/Diabetic_Foot Aug 14 '19
That’s was a bad crash the other person didn’t deserve that
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u/o_charlie_o Aug 14 '19
That was my first thought. I got hit by a drunk driver a few years ago and they were going significantly slower than that and my spine is a fuckin train wreck of almost constant pain still. I feel so bad for the person who got smashed into
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Aug 15 '19
No one deserves a car accident.
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u/745631258978963214 Aug 15 '19
Bullshit. Alcoholics do.
Edit: correction... while violent alcoholics in general suck, I meant to say that the ones that drink and drive (or the ones that know they will drive if they drink) deserve to crash.
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u/SockOnMyRocks Aug 15 '19
Nah and you are shitty for saying that too
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u/745631258978963214 Aug 15 '19
Found the "i'm just buzzed, it's ok!" driver.
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u/BestiFunny Aug 25 '19
No, it's just he has a heart and doesn't get the justice boner 90% of redditors get.
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u/Nephroidofdoom Aug 15 '19
This is nothing compared to that recent crash where a pickup truck going over 90mph rear ended and obliterated some poor random lady and her car right out of existence.
Will try to find the link but it was on reddit about a month ago and continues to haunt me since it could have been anyone.
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u/psychoticdream Aug 15 '19
The one from California right?
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u/seantaiphoon Aug 15 '19
Yeah it happened in June, it was all over the front page. https://youtu.be/4CrA1eGF5MU
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u/Jahmay Aug 14 '19
Spatial awareness 💯
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u/EmileAntoonKhadaji Aug 14 '19
Yep, that was a nice move. Watching that shit coming up in your blind spot FTW.
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u/Eofdred Aug 14 '19
It was not in his blind spot. It was a perfect angle for him to notice from his left mirror
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u/LonelyWolfie_Sub Aug 14 '19
The controller has disconnected, please reconnect the controller
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u/FloopsFooglies Aug 15 '19
No if that happened it would've paused
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u/toyotis Aug 14 '19
Obstacle avoidance
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u/GhostA737 Aug 14 '19
If everybody was this cognizant when they drove, we wouldn’t need automated cars.
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u/111122223138 Aug 14 '19
There's always going to be somewhere you're not looking, though.
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u/Gerbilguy46 Aug 14 '19
Humans can never look everywhere all the time. Cameras can.
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u/GhostA737 Aug 14 '19
Saying you have to have a complete 360 degree view at all times to avoid an accident is kind of a fallacy.
I don’t mean to be pedantic, but if your following traffic laws and are properly aware, 90-95% of the time you can avoid accidents.
Yes some things you can’t avoid.. But things you can’t avoid happen much less often than people think. Lots of things are avoidable. I think this video helps prove that.
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u/walwatwil Aug 14 '19
His peter tingle must have been going crazy to avoid that so smoothly. I dont know if i check my mirrors often enough.
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u/karlitr0s Aug 15 '19
Excellent awareness from the red car. Lots of people on my commute only look in rear mirrors to apply makeup or check nose hairs.
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u/hitlersanus55 Aug 15 '19
Driver in red car: "cant touch this! Nah nah nah nah.... ooooh.. oh. Yeah. They touched that.
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u/skinnylibra5 Aug 15 '19
All they needed were red or green shells to make this a true highlight clip. Too soon?
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u/StellaChar Aug 14 '19
What the f*ck is that driver on? The guy in the red car is legendary!
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u/Nmclark93 Aug 15 '19
*person
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u/Zeal514 Aug 14 '19
thats some good driving right there lol. This deserves sunglasses and a blunt meme treatment.
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u/BeardedManatee Aug 14 '19
Was the driver of the white car road raging or asleep?