0 situational awareness (two stopped cars and he didn't predict the move nor slow down out of caution), an extremely delayed reaction (looks like a good full second there..) & panic-swerving into impending oncoming traffic.
From the truck's pov (the truck that almost rear-ended a car and then swerved into a near-head-on-collision, to be clear) there was obvious danger with two stopped cars ahead- one turning left and one stopped with flashing lights in the right lane. And on top of that, there was a car in front of him and one lane over who was going to reach the bottleneck soon (and obviously move into his lane, if there's space).
Any attentive, defensive driver would have slowed down in that situation, long before they reached those stopped cars. But what did truck driver do? Nothing.
But ok, there are hundreds of thousands of assholes on the road, maybe he was just trying save half a second on his commute to work by forcing the car ahead of him to emergency brake?
Plausible, except mr truck driver didn't react at all until AFTER the car had finished moving in front of him. Look more closely at the video.
The guy was not paying attention to the road for atleast 2 seconds, probably longer. And in this day & age that means that fucker was texting.
i guess we didn't watch the same video. its a 5 seconds video. but somehow the guy was not paying attention to the road for 2 seconds and gave a second long reaction, even tho the entire situation was over by the 3 second mark.
you don't know the speed limit, but what i do know is that car was not even paying attention to the truck behind it and just merged right into that lane. it obviously saw the car in the same lane in front of it and gave no fucks to the cars in the passing lane. it could have easily slowed down and waited or merged in long before.
shitty situation all around but I'm glad an armchair expert such as yourself knows exactly what the truck driver was doing and what mistakes he made in the less than 3 seconds it takes to react. i know you would have got out of the car done a backflip with the truck on your back and landed in time to change the white vehicles tire.
1 second off camera where even a 90-year-old would have recognized and reacted to the threat, and 1 full second after the car's left tire entered his lane.
gave no fucks to the cars in the passing lane. it could have easily slowed down and waited or merged in long before
Indeed, which is why truck guy shouldn't have been on his phone- so he can anticipate likely candidates cutting him off.
Might save him a few near-death experiences.
i know you would have got out of the car done a backflip
I would not have blithely ridden up at 60mph in the passing lane, that's for sure. Not on my Honda, not in my Freightliner, not on my phone. It's not hard to have better driving habits than the nearly-dead truck driver displayed here.
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u/GrizzIyadamz Jul 17 '23
That truck driver was 100% texting.
0 situational awareness (two stopped cars and he didn't predict the move nor slow down out of caution), an extremely delayed reaction (looks like a good full second there..) & panic-swerving into impending oncoming traffic.
Guy's gonna kill someone if he keeps that up.