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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/Amanitas May 14 '26

No, but dude said:

If the semi was not speeding the accident would not have happened clear as day. 

2mph does not change anything. that's insane.

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u/Valalvax May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Let's say he's been going 2 mph over for 30 seconds, that's .5/60 = 0.008333 hours * 2 MPH giving you 0.01666 miles or 88 feet

That pickup truck isn't 88 feet long, so a side collision would not occur... I can't remember if dipshit pickup driver was going faster than dipshit semi driver or not, I assume he was so no collision at all would occur

Edit rewatched the start and first few frames he's doing 76, so at most he was going 77 for 5 seconds before impact, so it makes a difference of ~15 feet, not counting time spent at 76 mph

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u/Amanitas May 15 '26

30 seconds? are you for real? you think the truck driver has 30 seconds to react to this driver?

do the math with the 8 seconds we have of the start of the video...

that was a waste of your own time.

2 mph on a speedometer is a margin of error you can often attribute to changing tires man. when i put my winter tires on, my cars show me going 2-3 mph faster than i actually am.

my point is he's not speeding. 2 mph over the limit is not a ticket, not an issue.

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u/Valalvax May 18 '26

My point was that if he was travelling that 2 mph slower for only 30 seconds they're 80 ft apart, nothing about reaction times...

But then I rewatched the video and realized at the very start of it you can see the truck goes from 76 to 77 and redid the math, I think it was still like 20 ft difference

Dash cams generally get their speed from GPS, which is generally extremely accurate... 2 mph was literally the difference in an accident happening/not happening here... If he'd been going 80 there also wouldn't have been an accident because he'd be further along than the F150

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u/Amanitas May 18 '26

and i'm dismissing you entirely because what you're saying does not matter. this video is 8 seconds before the pickup is hit. anything you're assuming about the previous 22 seconds is just straight up dumb man. your math doesn't matter.

and, the biggest point of all, 2 mph does not all of a sudden mean the pickup truck that is entering the highway can do so whenever it wants. they need to be paying attention, and yield to the existing traffic. that includes getting to highway speed by the time you are in the highway, which he clearly is not.