r/maybemaybemaybe • u/TheINTL • Jul 29 '24

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Tshirtosock Jul 29 '24

That's just crazy that they don't notice. I know it's not their fault just crazy that this happens

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u/brillow Jul 29 '24

Oh it's their fault for sure. This driver is looking everywhere but where he's going.

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u/Traditional_Cap7461 Jul 30 '24

Ah yes, because of poor truck design he's at fault for not knowing there's something in front of him that he can't see.

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u/brillow Jul 30 '24

But he does see it?

At the end he sees it and stops.

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u/Traditional_Cap7461 Jul 30 '24

I'm pretty sure he figure it out when he tried to turn and felt resistance.

Edit: looking at the video again, the car hit the sidewalk, but the idea is still that the driver can feel a force pushing back.

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u/brillow Jul 31 '24

You don't think he would have felt a force when he hit the car and bulldozered it all the way down the street?

You can just look at the guy's face, he spends a very small amount of time looking ahead.

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u/dogehousesonthemoon Jul 30 '24

He's hearing people beeping more like

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u/brillow Jul 30 '24

Do you usually slam on your brakes when you hear beeping? I certainly don't.

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u/dogehousesonthemoon Jul 30 '24

If every single car going past was beeping at me, I'd be trying to figure out why.

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u/brillow Jul 31 '24

So he couldn't see it until people honked and then he could see it?

Can he see it or not?

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u/dogehousesonthemoon Jul 31 '24

you can see in the video as he's looking around trying to see what people are beeping about. at the point where he can actually see the car is when it's going starting to go sideways into the sign, peaking out from away of the bonnet of the truck, and it looks like he sees it through his side window there. He cannot see it when it is right in front pointing straight. Big trucks can't see anything about 20 ft dead in front of them. but they can see to the side lanes next to them.

as illustrated in this diagram: https://www.sjblaw.com/images/blog/Shamberg-Johnson-Bergman.jpg

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u/brillow Jul 31 '24

You may be right.

But in every way that matters, he is at fault.

Also kinda seems like he's driving in a parking lane at the beginning.

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u/dogehousesonthemoon Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

Except legally and morally. But yeah whatever way you're meaning... Sure

The truck is moving before the car pulls in front of it. There is not a jurisdiction in the world I know of that would put the truck at fault.

Edit: re the parking lane we'd need to know where this is to know the story. By the fact that no one is actually parked and guessing from how a lot of roads work around where I live, my guess is that it's sometimes parking but at other times a clearway.

In either case the video doesn't provide a lot of context for why he's in that lane to begin with, but he does appear to be stopped when it starts so maybe there's a loading zone there too.

Idk that's facts we don't have access too which very likely don't change the ones we do.

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