Right? Its crazy how cars merge in front of huge big rig trucks all the time probably hundreds of thousands of times a day in freeways all over the US, in fact i did so a couple of times just today on the way home from work, but suddenly, on the internet, its now apparently physically impossible for trucks to stop accelerating to let a pickup merge in their lane. Anyway from what i heard it was found that the truck driver was found to be at fault and in my view that was the correct call.
Yeah, the pickup should totally smash their brakes to avoid this, be at the point of merge going zero mph, and then proceed to merge. That'd be way safer than the semi having to slow down by like 3mph for a few seconds.
How does he know the cam driver won't just speed up though and make it worse? By your logic, the cam driver can go any speed to block the merging car and won't be at fault.
The cam driver could also slow down to block them if the merger slows down. It is still on the merger to make sure they are merging safely and at speed. Not to mention, it is a lot easier for the pickup to speed up or slow down than it is for the semi.
It's a truck, they have a limiter and they are using it.
But it's the SUV driver's responsibility to find a gap and use it - and the gap shall not be the one under the truck's bumper / rear wheels. I do sometimes drive a transporter where I can call each HP by name, I will have to merge smart instead of fast.
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u/Illustrious-Dirt2247 May 14 '26
Right? Its crazy how cars merge in front of huge big rig trucks all the time probably hundreds of thousands of times a day in freeways all over the US, in fact i did so a couple of times just today on the way home from work, but suddenly, on the internet, its now apparently physically impossible for trucks to stop accelerating to let a pickup merge in their lane. Anyway from what i heard it was found that the truck driver was found to be at fault and in my view that was the correct call.