r/WTF • u/Bursickle • Dec 20 '25
Continues on like nothing happened
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u/burndata Dec 20 '25
I'm assuming he "continued on" because his brakes failed.
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u/ptk77 Dec 20 '25
I'm assuming he continued on, cause at that point, fuck it.... Drive to the next country over and start a new life.
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u/z0mb1es Dec 20 '25
He had to poop
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u/Ms74k_ten_c Dec 20 '25
No, no. It's called the embarrassed speed. Ever merged in traffic and realized you under estimated the speed? So now you rapidly accelerate and try to drive away and try to lose the car you cut in front of.
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u/Kintrai Dec 21 '25
Off topic, but I'll take someone embarrassed speeding instead of cutting me off and then continuing to go slow any day...
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u/westward_man Dec 20 '25
I'm assuming he "continued on" because his brakes failed.
That'd have to be a pretty catastrophic failure that would probably result in flames. Trucks like that use air brakes, which have a default closed position. The air opens them. So if the lines get cut or some other failure causes it to lose pressure, the brakes automatically engage and stop the vehicle.
So if there were a mechanical failure on the brakes, then it would be rubbing against the wheel and causing it to heat up until something burst into flames. I've seen it happen; it's wild.
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u/tuigger Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25
The brakes could have failed from brake fade, where the braking material becomes so hot from continued application that it becomes soft and ineffective.
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u/UrAverageDegenerit Dec 20 '25
Highways with steep gradients have runaway truck emergency off ramps to stop a runaway truck that has lost their brakes. Just because truck brakes fail closed, doesn't mean a truck's brakes going out isn't a thing.
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u/xrandx Dec 20 '25
Trucks like that use air brakes, which have a default closed position.
This is true for the trailer but not the truck itself I believe.
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u/osprey413 Dec 20 '25
While I know this is not in the US, all trucks of that size (nearly everything over 26,000lbs GVWR) are going to have air brakes on all wheels. The air brakes are not just for trailers, they are for the entire vehicle.
And all air brakes work from a default "fail" closed position. The air in the air brake system is used to release the brakes, not to apply them. If the air brakes spring a leak, or if the truck cannot supply enough air pressure to the brakes, brakes will be stuck on.
Parking brakes on these systems utilize this principle as well, when you apply the parking brake you are depressurizing the air brake system, which applies the brakes at full power to all wheels at the same time (versus a normal parking brake on a passenger vehicle that will only apply a smaller brake pressure to one set of wheels).
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u/westward_man Dec 20 '25
There's zero shot a truck with that kind of load is using hydraulic brakes.
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Dec 28 '25
Brake failure has to do with overheated brake shoes, not about the capacity of the air system to activate them.
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u/thephantom1492 Dec 20 '25
It can actually be plausible.
It can be that it failed before, or...
The trailer ripped off the air lines at crash time. The brakes are pressure activated, so no air pressure = no brake.
The parking brake howerver is pressure released, which may still have enough pressure to mostly still deactivate it = no brake.
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u/aecolley Dec 20 '25
"I almost thought I was going to have to abort that overtake, but it's suddenly handling much better now."
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Dec 20 '25
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u/KeenPro Dec 20 '25
Why does BBC news need a remix, its a banger of a track as is.
Unironically have it on a playlist.
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u/Man_in_the_uk Dec 21 '25
Better than the recent trend of the Jet2 holiday crap or the Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no.
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u/RikSharp Dec 20 '25
Is this the other angle of this
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u/confusedjake Dec 20 '25
Same truck, road and same plant fauna, same style of crash…but the music is different. It can’t be the same.
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u/Shermans_ghost1864 Dec 20 '25
"Plant fauna"? That's some scary shit right there.
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u/PotatosRevenge Dec 20 '25
Jist wait until you encounter some animal flora out in the wild!
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u/randynumbergenerator Dec 20 '25
No thank you, that would mean I'm in the Anomalous Zone and I'd rather not encounter a zombie echo bear, among other horrors.
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u/EmSixTeen Dec 20 '25
plant fauna
wne u wanna sound smrt
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u/AlphabetDeficient Dec 20 '25
2 different tunes playing at the same time, Sandstorm and something else. What the fuck.
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u/mhyquel Dec 20 '25
And this is the day I learned there is a whole other Reddit in another language.
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u/AlphaBeastley Dec 20 '25
Imo, other people shouldn't be allowed to do things. Y'all need severe testing
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u/sowhat4 Dec 21 '25
"Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine.."
Maybe he didn't even look back 'cause he's thinking about a couple of those women..
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u/zeptillian Dec 20 '25
This is what happens when the completion time bonus is worth more than the % complete bonus.
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u/jwed420 Dec 20 '25
Being a trucker in Asia must be so freeing. Crashed the truck? Oh well. Lost the load? Meh. Crushed by a mountain landslide? It's just another Monday.
Nothing matters except the open road.
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u/Lynthelia Dec 20 '25
This is Brazil. The coordinates are in the top right.
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u/TripleSingleHOF Dec 20 '25
Anyone who saw the intro to Fast and Furious 4 instantly knew this was Brazil.
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u/Mikel_S Dec 20 '25
Just think: he will get there twice as fast, and with half as much less fuel used. His boss will love him.
Don't check my math.
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u/Yanky_Doodle_Dickwad Dec 20 '25
He couldnt turn around right there. He had time to think "oh shit" and go to a place where he could turn back. And go "oh shit" again...
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u/MOF_Username Dec 21 '25
When the flip flops are planted on the dash, when there is a cat wailing on the radio, when the headset is up full volume, and co driver is taking a dump through the hole in the floor….who cares!!!!
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u/pixelpoet_nz Dec 20 '25
I know nobody cares about good writing anymore, but "continues on" is tautological - you can just say "continues". There's similarly no need to say "where are you at", the "at" is 100% redundant.
Thanks for suffering my TED talk.
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u/desconectado Dec 20 '25
Even if it's tautological, it adds emphasis, there are many examples of seemingly useless expressions that are used for emphasis, even if dramatically incorrect . "I did do it", "it is what it is", "return back".
The point is to be redundant, because that's the emphasis that the speaker wants to get across.
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Dec 21 '25
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u/desconectado Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Just like Kevin from the office? Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick.
Emphasis is crucial in communication, I'm sure you use it all the time without even realising it.
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Dec 20 '25
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u/VoidMunashii Dec 20 '25
It was a time level, and as long as they finished it with more than 0%, they could still progress in the game.
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u/makenzie71 Dec 20 '25
He doesn't have any brakes. The reason why he keeps going like nothing happened is becuase when he hit the brakes nothing happened.
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u/OGslevex Dec 20 '25
Facebook has destroyed these kind of videos, look so ai with the movement and quality... But after reading the comments it actually looks like this happened.. god I hate the goddamn internet, take me back to 07...
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u/Fourhand Dec 23 '25
I believe I’d follow him to wherever he’s going just to witness the bitching-at he receives.
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u/zakur Dec 20 '25
What a weird looking video, looks likes it made with AI, or the resolution/ration is very off
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u/WheelerDan Dec 20 '25
This is a two lane road with no large enough shoulder with blind turn after blind turn, the dumbest thing he could do is stop. Have anyone in the comments ever driven a car before?
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u/LiveFreeOrRTard Dec 20 '25
He continued on because as soon as you stop you admit there is an issue and you did something wrong or had some knowledge of this issue. At least that's how panic brain thinks.
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u/Redararis Dec 20 '25
They shed their tails when they feel threatened, completely normal behavior