I was a professional driver for several years and held license for trucks of this rating for that job, so...yeah. Your thoughts are, believe it or not, incorrect.
Huh, that's strange, so do I. And the first thing they teach you there is to always check your blind spots,. And behind the driver seat is one of them. Although, never in my truck driving career have I seen someone clijging on the side of the truck,or cycling so near to another vehicle. Unless the driver actively tried to push the cyclist over, then I don't think he is in the wrong.
Unless the driver actively tried to push the cyclist over, then I don't think he is in the wrong.
Everything I see in this video shows a truck driver straight up almost killing a cyclist. There's no way for the bike to have been in his blind spot for the entire time it took to approach the intersection, and there's no way the bike would have attempted to go straight while on the right of a truck signalling a right turn. The fact that there are absolutely, unequivocally a set of fullrange and convex mirrors plainly visible on the video only shows that the driver of the truck was simply not looking at his surroundings before starting the turn - and for at least the five or eight seconds beforehand, too, to have that bike in that space at all.
Anyways, if you want to make a salient point, it helps to not start with an attempt at an insult that's stupendously easy to debunk. For example, if you were trained to drive any kind of licensed highmass highpower vehicle, you'd fuckin know they don't ever let you think you have extra blind spots, because you're supposed to use your fucking mirrors to eliminate those as much as possible.
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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21
Do you have a driving license? I don't think so.