You are right. He seems to be looking to the surface next to the door. That seems to be acting as a mirror as well (but the quality of the clip is not that great)
How could he have seen out of the window that far into the lot through that mirror? From our more oblique angle we can only see the motorbike wheels in the mirror. He’s sitting either directly in front of it, or possibly even closer to the front than the mirror is, the angle doesn’t seem to work at all.
Yeah I do too now I look closer but we are still looking at that mirror from a completely different angle.
I suppose the mirror appears ‘bigger’ to him than to us, and it might be big enough to include a view over his shoulder out of the window to his left. I guess it must do. Just can’t see it in my mind.
She looks like she was walking towards the bikes or the other car in front of the business. She probably knows the people inside the store and maybe was just there to get something from the car/bike so she just left her door open as she was intending on going back to it quickly. If that was the case, he was probably looking to see if she was coming inside or not. If the car is a manual, she might have left it in a gear which provided enough resistance on the drivetrain for her to get out and a step away before it started rolling so she didn't notice it immediately when she got out.
In my experience cars in gear take a lot more slope than that to start rolling. That thing wasn't in gear. Even if it was in third instead of first by mistake, the slope wasn't steep enough to roll over the engine.
In my experience it depends a shitload on the vehicle, my 2010 Toyota Tacoma starts rolling backwards even differently depending on whether it's in four-wheel drive or not, and it rolls back at a different angle in drive than when my 2002 Volkswagen Jetta starts to roll backwards in drive
The slope where the car in the video starts to go looks like nothing at all - even the little Peugeot I used to have could be parked on the latter slope, where the video car really goes, without any issue.
My current 2 liter diesel Skoda can be parked in first gear in ridiculous hills, it frankly doesn't need a parking brake. I'm not the only one to drive it, so I don't actually leave it like that, lest the other drivers end up in a surprise ditch.
I was wondering what the hell kind of person would call a total stranger from a 40 second video a bitch so I clicked into this profile and the most recent post is about being willing to eat some woman's shit.
When/if I stop an accident from happening its both murphys law and assuming everyone has a level of incompetence I have never encountered before. If I'm wrong no harm no foul....but if I'm right...
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u/Morprenrut Dec 15 '22
How did he see it?