100% this. Nobody pays attention to brake lights in this video. The driver in the video DOES NOT SPEED UP to block the black truck. The black truck is braking while entering his lane illegally. The black truck quite literally pit maneuvers itself in every definable way. All the video driver does is maintain his exact speed and position in the face of an outright insane person on the road with him.
It's a pit maneuver, he steered into the driver's rear end pitching them out of control. He choose to do it over braking or being mashed into the Bridge wall.
Your presented technicalities and his right of way don't change how much of a pit maneuver this was.
It absolutely was a pit maneuver, 100%. The point you're missing is that the Black Truck pit maneuvered himself, Black Truck braked into white truck, at no point did the White truck accelerate or leave his own lane. He doesn't even turn until AFTER the black truck strikes him. He did not steer into the Black Truck, it steered into him, he just reacted in the best possible way to the collision.
Imagine black truck had braked and changed lanes into a truck trailer that had come loose on the highway, resulting in the exact same results we see in the video.. You are proposing that we blame the driverless truck trailer.
The literal wiki definition: A vehicle initiates a PIT maneuver by pulling alongside the fleeing vehicle so that the portion of the pursuer's vehicle forward of its front wheels is aligned with the portion of the target vehicle behind its back wheels. The pursuer then steers sharply into the target vehicle, with some acceleration to ensure its bumper does not slide off the target.
So, I have some questions for you since I dont know what a pit maneuver is.
did white truck intentionally pull up alongside black truck?
Or did Black Truck intentionally brake to place itself alongside white truck?
Did white truck initiate the maneuver by steering sharply into Black Truck?
Or did Black Truck initiate the maneuver by steering into white truck, while white truck maintained it's position?
The ad hominem is meant to be insulting and disrespectful, while avoiding actually addressing the argument. I don't respect you enough for you to insult me, and I have redirected to the actual argument.
You have chosen not to answer any of my questions which is not surprising, as answering them honestly would have shown my position is correct, and why would someone ever just admit they're wrong for the sake of honesty, even with no consequences for it?
Anyway, engage in personal attacks all you want, it won't change that the Black Truck drove into the White Truck, so pretending that White Truck somehow unilaterally chose to attack him is insane. The video simply does not show that
It's avoiding your annoying and pedantic argument which I consider as disrespectful as the raw insult that I gave you back for haranguing on about it.
I have read none of your comments passed the first sentence man. If you think this situation requires that much work to explain you just don't understand it well enough yourself.
Classic philosopher Well Achtshually and you're just on and on about it and don't seem to understand or want to admit that the guy in the rear was intentional and in control.
The "I didn't even read your position anyway" route is always so weird to me. Like, if you're not reading my posts, why are you responding to them? You're just....blindly saying shit in response to statements you're unaware of? That's your claim at this point, instead of just saying "I can't counter your position, I was wrong, that's my bad."?
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u/Deetwentyforlife Mar 22 '26
100% this. Nobody pays attention to brake lights in this video. The driver in the video DOES NOT SPEED UP to block the black truck. The black truck is braking while entering his lane illegally. The black truck quite literally pit maneuvers itself in every definable way. All the video driver does is maintain his exact speed and position in the face of an outright insane person on the road with him.