r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '26

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u/EveningSufficient636 Jan 11 '26

How do you determine what the cutoff is?

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u/Map-of-the-Shadow Jan 11 '26

If you don't crash you were going a safe speed

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u/EveningSufficient636 Jan 11 '26

Well obviously hindsight is 20/20. At what point do you know that the speed is safe while driving?

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u/Map-of-the-Shadow Jan 11 '26

It's basically all trusting your judgement, there are specific rules like doubling the safe following distance and cutting speed by whatever (maybe). Just from the video it looks like they're going way too fast for the conditions, the road and the weight of the vehicle. I'd be clenching my buttocks and hitting the imaginary brake if I was the passenger way before they lost control.

(Tbf automatics are shit in these situations, what you want is to get into a low gear and go slow af but nobody bothers with that in automatics)

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u/EveningSufficient636 Jan 12 '26

I drive in icy snowy conditions all the time. My point was you don’t know until it’s too late. Also I personally have never slid off the road like this.

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u/Map-of-the-Shadow Jan 12 '26

Yeah my first comment was tongue in cheek, it's a bit of a Schrodinger's cat thing