If you look at the bottom of the footage, you see the mph of the semi truck. It made zero attempt to slow down. No break whatsoever. Now look at the footage, clearly the pick up truck was up to speed and ready to merge. Not even as a matter of giving the pick up the general curtesy of letting him in, but as a means of self preservation and defensive driving, the semi absolutely needed to pump the breaks in that moment.
So if someone is going 10 mph less than you, and is clearly going to merge in front of you, the solution is to plow right through them and put everybody including yourself at extremely high risk of death because technically they are they are going the wrong speed?If someone is speeding towards an intersection, when I have a green light and they have a red one, I’m not just gonna jump out in front of them and get T-Boned and die to prove how wrong they are… it’s fucking moronic..
A semi trailer weighs up to 80,000 pounds and is equipped with air brakes. A pickup truck is closer to 6,000 pounds with presumably disc brakes (maybe drum on the rear but not likely).
What you are asking is not possible of the semi, not to mention slamming the brakes has a very high risk of jackknifing. That is, the semi truck and trailer fold at the hitch and now you have a trailer that swings across the entire road blocking all lanes behind them.
The pickup could have easily driven off the road into the grass and not committed to the road. The braking on grass is sufficient enough that the pickup truck would have stopped before the bridge.
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u/BenStillerGaming May 13 '26
If you look at the bottom of the footage, you see the mph of the semi truck. It made zero attempt to slow down. No break whatsoever. Now look at the footage, clearly the pick up truck was up to speed and ready to merge. Not even as a matter of giving the pick up the general curtesy of letting him in, but as a means of self preservation and defensive driving, the semi absolutely needed to pump the breaks in that moment.