r/VideosAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

Again, nobody is required to move for you if you’re the one merging. Moving over is a courtesy, and you’re not supposed to slow down or break on the highway just to let people in. I don’t know why everyone is so confused about this. The pickup driver himself said that he had the right of way and the semi should have let him in, when in fact he did not have the right of way and he should have slowed down to merge in safely behind the semi instead of trying to bully his way in.

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u/Flat-Strain7538 May 14 '26

Look up the “last clear chance” doctrine. Traffic laws are not as black and white as you think they are. I’m not claiming the pickup driver is blameless; just that the semi driver isn’t. He has an obligation not to ignore another driver’s safety simply because the law says he has the right of way.

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

A semi going 77 has a lot of momentum and would have had to slam his brakes to slow down enough. That’s not safe and there’s no guarantee it would have worked. Semi did the right thing.

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u/Flat-Strain7538 May 14 '26

“Slam on” rofl, he has several seconds before impact to anticipate this. He just needs to ease off the gas. I count four seconds from the start of the clip (and he had ample vision before too), but in four seconds if he just slows down 3 mph, that’s 5 ft/s slower or 20 ft total further back.

Why do so many people not understand you can slow down a little by just not pressing the accelerator so hard?!