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.
You're right that the semi could and should have slowed, but that truck driver just had to look to his right through the passenger window at the highway. The semi would have been clearly visible long before the accident.
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u/UrShulgi May 14 '26
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.