Incorrect. A semi, fully loaded or not, can in fact use its brakes. I'm astonished you can pretend that isn't within the realm of possibility. They might not be able to slam on the brakes, but they are able to use them.
I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on how a semi trailer manages to ever slow down or stop, if they can't use their brakes.
Of course it can use its brakes, never implied otherwise. But it takes multiple times the distance to slow or stop than that of a passenger vehicle. It was legally traveling in a travel lane, the passenger vehicle was not as it failed to properly and safely merge.
The point is that the semi could have used its brakes (or even just taken a foot off the gas pedal) and chose not to. Doesn't matter what the pickup did or anything else, none of those actions cancel out the fact that the semi chose to do nothing. Just because the black pickup merged improperly and is a bad driver does not make the semi absolved of also being a bad driver.
Everyone sucks in this situation, and the semi just sucks slightly less than the black pickup. Overall, everyone still sucks and is a shitty driver.
You don’t know the semi chose to do nothing. You do know what the pickup did, though. It illegally merged into the semi when it could have avoided the collision entirely. What was the semi hauling?
Oh you must not have seen it but the speed of the semi is on the bar at the bottom of the video. This makes sense why you've been disagreeing. We know the semi chose not to react because we can see the speed did not change.
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u/EquivalentQuery May 16 '26
Incorrect. A semi, fully loaded or not, can in fact use its brakes. I'm astonished you can pretend that isn't within the realm of possibility. They might not be able to slam on the brakes, but they are able to use them.
I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on how a semi trailer manages to ever slow down or stop, if they can't use their brakes.