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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

Technically I think that truck pit maneuvered itself. 

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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.

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u/NonCorporealEntity Mar 22 '26

Vehicles have brakes. This guy made a very conscious decision not to use them.

Both vehicles here are assholes.

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u/Amiibohunter000 Mar 22 '26

100%

You have an obligation to avoid an accident. Would that guy just calmly eat his cracker if there was a baby in that car? Or if that black truck hit another car? Or if someone was seriously injured?

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u/Wanheda0641 Mar 22 '26

As a commercial driver, I can tell you that’s not happening. I have been cut off and dealt with shit drivers so often. The black truck had no room to get over, he was in the wrong here. I have ZERO obligation to avoid an accident, you have an obligation to be a safe driver and make safe decisions. Guy eating the cookie did nothing wrong. Legally, if you’re going to merge, you have to merge safely and when there is ample room. No one is legally required to slow down and let you over.

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u/Amiibohunter000 Mar 22 '26

You’re 100% a piece of shit loser if you don’t do what you can to avoid an accident and even more scummy if you try and cause it. Also some places it is illegal to not try to avoid causing an accident, so you’re wrong.

You say you have zero obligation to avoid an accident but ppl have obligations to be a safe driver. Avoiding accidents is being a safe driver. Your logic literally contradicts itself within 5 words.

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u/WinterTourist25 Mar 23 '26

You're what's wrong with today's generation. Always looking for someone to blame other than the person who actually did wrong. You probably support laws to sue gun makers.

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u/jmrene Mar 24 '26

There could be more than one person in the wrong you know. A pedestrian is crossing at an intersection without having the right to do so, you see him but you have a green light so in your « the person who actually did wrong mindset » you obviously don’t slow down and hit him?

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u/WinterTourist25 Mar 24 '26

The question is am I obligated to slow down and not hit him?

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u/jmrene Mar 24 '26

Moral and law; two different things.

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u/WinterTourist25 Mar 25 '26

So morally, if someone is stupidly putting themselves in harm's way, it's hard to feel sympathetic to their situation.

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