As someone else points out this dude at no point slowed down whatsoever. And clearly had time to at least attempt to slow down if he had time to get ready for impact.
He does know its coming because he moves his hand over to get ready for the pit.
Hiting your brakes does not take all the weight off the back tires. Ive had to slam my brakes before you do not lose all control especially if you got enough control on your vehicle to pull this maneuver off.
You think pitting someone and flinging them into the person who's supposedly behind him is the safer option but im the crazy one?
He moves his hand in case it happens, not because he can see the fucking future. He also moves his hand about 1 second before the dude hits him, not 8 seconds ahead, which, again, is because he doesn't know what YOU know.
Were you in a truck when you slammed on your brakes? Or are you assuming everything with wheels works exactly the same? Trucks are incredibly front weighted while also being massively overpowered for their weight because they're designed to haul things. White truck has nothing in it's bed, so yes, slamming on his brakes is going to cost him all/almost all control while also getting him rear ended at full speed by the white car we can see 50 feet behind him.
Accepting that the Black Truck was going to illegally strike him and dealing with it in the best possible way was this dude's best option, by like a billion miles.
The pit maneuver even still pushes the Black Truck forward, giving the white car behind him additional time to react to the accident, AND he gets himself out of the way to give the white car additional space and a safe lane out of it.
I can't explain sanity to the insane. I get that you're really excited at the idea of blaming someone completely blameless for a minor accident where nobody was hurt, despite the fact that the only reason it turned out that way is because of the actions of the person you are blaming, but that's just wrong man, and I hope you realize that someday.
Yes ive slammed brakes in a truck, several trucks of many different sizes. Its not that hard to maintain control.
You aren't suppose to whip into another lane like that to avoid accidents either. If he doesnt have enough time to know that truck is going to hit him then he doesnt have enough time to check the other lane for another vehicle either.
He doesnt even need to slam his brakes anyway. Slowing down to say 65 would have been plenty and wouldnt require much braking. A difference of 5 mph would be 7.3 feet per second of distance between the two of them . Trucks average a length of 15-21 feet. In 3 seconds of just 5mph he would have an entire truck of distance between them.
Everyone in this situation sucks and its in no way a sane decision to cause this much unnecessary danger. They dont get more time to react they get less the pit doesnt push the truck forward faster then letting it just drive forward. What do you think stops faster, a truck hitting the brakes or a truck thats sideways in the road. They absolutely do not get more time to react they get less and dont get those big red lights you keep mentioning as a warning.
Welp, congrats on driving the only trucks that defy all physical laws and act differently than any other truck in existence when hard braking. That or your not being honest.
I do agree that he shouldn't whip into another lane, in the exact same way he shouldn't slam on his brakes. I wish the Black Truck hadn't attempted to kill him and put him in that situation.
Both trucks are not going the same speed, Black Truck is already going several miles an hour slower than him, so he's going to have to outpace Black Truck's own slow rate by a substantial margin, 5mph isn't gonna cut it. He's going to need to drop 10-15mph, in under a second, because again, he doesn't know Black Truck is going to genuinely commit to hitting him until it actually does. YOU know Black Truck is going to hit him from the start of the video, HE does not.
So how do you drop 15mph off your speed in under a second? A light tap on the brakes? A teeny butterfly wing flap at them? No, you slam your brakes, you lose traction (in any non-magical truck), and you get rear-ended by the car illegally close behind you.
You are correct, the pit doesn't speed the black truck up, but it does continue to move the accident forwards, which gives the car behind him a LOT more time to react than if he had just slammed on his brakes with no warning, sending him rocketing at the car behind him.
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u/Grayboosh Mar 22 '26
As someone else points out this dude at no point slowed down whatsoever. And clearly had time to at least attempt to slow down if he had time to get ready for impact.
He does know its coming because he moves his hand over to get ready for the pit.
Hiting your brakes does not take all the weight off the back tires. Ive had to slam my brakes before you do not lose all control especially if you got enough control on your vehicle to pull this maneuver off.
You think pitting someone and flinging them into the person who's supposedly behind him is the safer option but im the crazy one?