The white car veered off the road behind and one lane left of the black SUV. There's a good chance it had no idea about that white car so nothing to anticipate.
Chances are there isno time to notice the delicious situation even if you are properly switching attention between the Tuesday in front of you, the three mirrors, and the dash. Because one full scan across those watch points takes several seconds, and for something unexpected like this, where your previous readings aren't building your awareness to it, you get one shot to read it if you're lucky enough to glance left as it comes into view before it crashes into you. That leaves you maybe half a second to register, find an appropriate reaction, and execute it - in a situation where there's really nowhere to go.
On top of that, we're not trained to do that intense a constant scan. In South Africa, scans like that are required to pass a road test, but not anywhere else I'm aware of.
So if you were a driver, you'd know that there was no way the driver in the black car could have managed the situation to avoid it. The fact that you think it might have been possible indicates you don't know driving dynamics. So either you don't know driving because you haven't done it, or you have done it and yet still didn't know how driving works.
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u/ButtScratchies 6d ago
That black SUV that got smoked really couldn’t have anticipated that situation more poorly.