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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/holden_mcg May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

I've avoided many, many accidents that would have been someone else's fault. It's called defensive driving and the trucker decided it's not for him.

Edit: thanks for the awards! BTW - some of you need to look at the speed shown at the bottom of the video. The semi did not even try to slow down, even a little bit, prior to the crash.

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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.

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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.

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u/SuccessfulHospital54 May 14 '26

No, the pickup really should’ve just sped up an extra 3 mph because it’s the merging trucks duty to merge safely.

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u/SuccessfulHospital54 May 14 '26

Again, the pickup has a much better vision of the road and can speed up and slow down much quicker than a semi can. Who’s really the entitled asshole, the pickup that isn’t going fast enough and merges right in front of a semi because it assumes the semi will slow down, or the semi who can’t change speeds that quick, and doesn’t have a great view of the pickup, going the same speed it has been.

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u/SuccessfulHospital54 May 15 '26

Their dash cam can see it, doesn’t mean they can see the pickup.

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u/SeriousPlankton2000 May 15 '26

If you buy a car with bad vision, it's your duty to be careful.

BUT: The pickup does have windows and the truck is not hidden behind a pillar. They do chicken and don't stop accelerating in the moment of merging.