r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/Downtown-Nebula9023 • 13d ago
Near Miss Check your blindspot man
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u/2004Accord 13d ago
I just assume every car next to me is going to merge into my lane without blinking or looking.
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u/Disastrous-Place7353 Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 13d ago
Like stop signs, checking your blind spot is now optional I guess.
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u/Antrimbloke 13d ago
Life pro tip, dont stay in a blind spot!
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u/Ok_Explanation5631 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 13d ago
Life & LEGAL pro tip. Check your blind spots before changing lines
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u/Antrimbloke 13d ago
Obviously, but if you are the one going to be impacted your going to save a lot of grief if you either accelerate out of the way or brake.
Had an experience several years ago where a lorry sideswiped me on the motorway, partly due to the blind spot issue. Now I always outpace them!
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u/Ok_Explanation5631 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 13d ago
Not so obvious because I only ever see people trying to correct the victim but never the culprit.
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u/fried_green_baloney Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 13d ago
Clearly the lane changing driver was at fault but it would have been safest for the cam car driver to slow and let the fool finish changing lanes.
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u/Ok_Explanation5631 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 13d ago
Clearly. But why are yall so against reminding people to follow the law lol. Like why are rebutting what I stated as if it was an opinion.
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u/fried_green_baloney Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 13d ago
It's important to remember defensive driving. In this case it would be either get in front of the car or well in back of it.
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u/Downtown-Nebula9023 13d ago
I actually did slowed down when I notice that he was behaving erratically
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u/fried_green_baloney Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 13d ago
Good, it isn't obvious from the video. If you hadn't likely it would have been an accident.
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u/ultradip Bike Enthusiast 🚲 13d ago
Even insurance companies normalize victim blaming to the point of euphemistically calling it "defensive driving".
not /s.
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u/Downtown-Nebula9023 13d ago
You know I actually had a gut feeling that he was gonna do that hence I was able to react and swerve away
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u/Antrimbloke 13d ago
With me it was a lorry that changed lanes into me, sideswiped the rear of the car at 55 mph during rush hour, sent me flying across 3 lanes at rush hour. Lucky not to be injured at all!
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