That's because it's probably gps based readout or something else. A lot of the time, these readouts do not update instantly. They take a second or two. That's why it goes from 68 - 58 down to 53 and then a jump to 27. Somewhere around the 27 is when the crash (actually) occurred. So yes. They were braking...
GPS updates at about 1Hz. Thats once a second. You can try this in your own vehicle. You’ll see it basically does update in near real time. That’s plenty to see some effect of braking before the crash. You don’t see him slow until the crash happens. He’s not braking.
In fact the crash also proves you wrong because the only time it updates is immediately upon the crash.
You can also tell by looking at how fast he is passing scenery, the rate never slows until the crash.
And if nothing else you can also steer to avoid an accident..
And you’re not seeing several crucial seconds before this video starts. More time to stop and avoid this that is conveniently left out. He had enough time to honk, he had enough time to avoid an accident.
He’s still moving after the crash is why. RVs are built to be light not take a hit. Probably went right through it. Looks like he hit the rv, slowed immediately, went airborne, flipped and skidded for a while. You can see him pass the yield sign which is beyond the RV. This is about when he is hitting the ground and drops to 27mph. And we don’t see the complete stop, he’s still skidding after the video ends.
Further proving he was gunning that rv down at full speed. Even letting off the gas pedal would have greatly slowed him down. You can tell he didn’t even do that. Not to mention a simple small controlled left veer would have avoided the whole thing.
Regardless the time before this started is what is important. You can see that rv was starting his turn well before the video started. The person who filmed this should go to jail for attempted manslaughter. As they were clearly trying for an insurance claim and lawsuit. But this video is going to backfire on them..
Once per second is really not enough resolution to get instant speed updates. speed is usually an average of the last few readings. Distance over time. This is why it takes several seconds after he has skated to a halt for it to register zero
I didn’t say instant. And the video actually never shows 0 and the car is NOT at a full stop, it is still moving at 27mph. That he is still moving that long after the accident also proves he was likely going 60+ prior.
But one second is fast enough to see ANY deceleration before that accident. Remember, the driver should have been braking at the beginning of the video.
Let’s “brake” it down…
The video is 7 seconds.
The accident happens between seconds 3-4.. at 5s you see an update, at 6 another, and at the final second a third change. Even if it was off by 1s, there were 3s prior to the accident.
Do you see any change in the first 3s? No. That’s because there is no braking happening.
I’ll give you that they may have started braking at 3s, but that is WAY too late. You can’t possibly tell me this person was trying to avoid this accident. You could maybe convince me they were asleep and woke up at the beginning of this video but that’s about it.
You can see the hood dip pretty close to the beginning of the video. He may be towing something heavy and has limited braking capacity. I don't agree that the GPS speed display is nearly as up to date as you suggest it is. It could be like a 3 second rolling average. You don't know.
I mean seriously. You can see the yield sign before the impact. If he was truly still going 55+ mph through the whole collision it wouldn't be visible 3 seconds after impact.
Most likely the impact is reflected when the speed drops from 56 to 27 in one tic. This happens a full 4 seconds after impact. If you adjust for this, he does in fact start slowing down immediately when the video starts.
Should try reading, i never said the crash happened at 27 mph, i said it happened around the 27mph marker. Theres only a few measurements we have at at our disposal in the video. Could've been hit at 40 for all we know.
From the start of the video (presuming they braked immediately as they started turning) there was roughly 2.5 seconds of deceleration before they hit.
For the updates regarding speed, the changes from 68-27 happened roughly within 2.5ish -3 seconds. So yes... checks out
I wish you wouldnt start with a conclusion and reason towards it, the vehicle shows no signs of slowing at all, but you reason yourself to a conclusion you want,
There are no signs of slowing down. Yeah, no sh**. You have a singular view with no external source of reference to gauge what is happening with the camera's car other than that.
However, your argument falls flat on it's face considering within the first second of the video, you can see the hood of the car lurch down slightly, which (surprise) indicates the car slowing down, which some would call... idk.... braking.
Very common sense to tell if they are braking or not...
No external source of reference? Buddy, look at the damn scenerey around him. It's moving at the same speed up until impact.
This guy driving is a complete muppet, he didn't even attempt slowing down. The front end hardly dipped. Even if it did (it didn't) it dipped so little that it looks like he let off the gas, without hitting his brakes once. Had he slammed on his brakes and moved to the left lane, he would have slowed down enough to pass behind the RV without hitting it. However, if you watch the video again, not only does he NOT slow down, he moves RIGHT towards the front end of that RV.
Also from the point in the video where he realizes the RV is crossing his path, I'd reckon he's about 200-250ft away from it. Assuming he's in a full size pick up truck or SUV. He'd need about 350ft to stop. MEANING, he could have avoided this accident without a shadow of a doubt if he had slammed on his brakes and moved to the left.
Some of you damn people are clearly just as bad at driving as the idiot in this video. Dude deserves to have his license taken away indefniately along with the RV driver for being just as much of an idiot and not waiting for it to be clear to make the turn.
Also, go watch a video of someone braking with a dashcam. You'll see what it actually looks like when someone brakes.
it has reasoning, but its taken as solid when its comnfirmation bias, because the fact there is a delay is not proof it matches wioth what you want it to match, the only real argument is someone claimign to have counted frames and seen 2 more when passing the last white line as the first.
Yeah, I got in a minor car accident last year and my dashcam's speed measurement showed I was still accelerating after the collision, while the footage clearly shows I started braking the moment the other car cross into my lane
You are taking that and extrapolating what you do not see from the vehicles movement, exagerating its significance. The fact it hasnt quite caught up to zero does not mean you can see the vehicle slow down before the crash. The two things arent proven to correlate exactly.
If you could not see the speed and read these argumentsyou would beleive it didnt brake.
No he isn't. If he was in a "massive truck" which would most likely be a semi-truck by your description. the POV from the camera would be significantly higher. The camera would literally be at the roof line of that RV.
Survival instinct of a potato. No break - because car didnt lean for heavy breaking and no way the suspension is that hard / he turned in to it - lizard brain usually turn away from danger. in this situation, at least he would have hit the passenger side. I bet it was some kind of hillbilly auto-cruise and hands full of stuff that have no place when driving..
Everyone saying the truck wasn't braking is wrong. First, that's a highway in the US. From the back of 1 white stripe to the back of the next one is 40 feet. From the very start you can only see 3 which means the vehicle in the thru lane was only 120 feet from the RV when it started to turn and would need 300 feet to stop completely driving at 65 mph. There was simply not enough time for the gps to register the sudden slowing down.
Even if it was 300ft required to come to a complete stop, he didn't need to stop completely at all. He just needed to slow down enough to avoid him from the back.
It's a left turn lane into a gas station, not an intersection. State highways are similar to interstate highways but can have intersection traffic signals and use variable speed zones. Texas has state highways that have houses on it like a normal neighborhood but the speed limit is 70.
He's going 68mph in a 55mph zone and he just passed by a flashing intersection ahead sign. Based on the # of lines in front at the start of the video, he's nearly 200' from the RV when it initiates the turn. He has the reaction time of a sloth.
Also - according to the post itself - guy was pulling a fully loaded trailer. This changes all the math, including the "why didn't you swerve" questions
You mean how th same cloud that's visible in the top right that should become more obscured if the front end was pitching down and how the speed was a constant 68 until 1 second after the crash? That's the constant speed decrease you see???
It's not even worth arguing with these people. They'll never admit they're wrong. My eyes see what yours see. This guy didn't even try slowing down. You don't need to even look at the clouds, just look at the tree's and the front end. his front end didn't dip one bit.
Look up "Autobahn emergency braking at 200km/hr" on youtube. Front end dips, the scenerey around slows down immensely.
It gets people to say stupid shit and then other people get mad and can’t help themselves and have to correct the people saying stupid shit so it draws a lot of activity
Did you just add the location? I went back and looked it up from the GPS and that's what I came up with too, but from what I was reading it was 70 to 80 mph. I'm in Montana and we're pretty regularly at 70, which is already too fast. Either way it's a bad deal.
Yes, the RV driver was wrong all day long but the video shows the other driver making zero attempt to slow or avoid the RV. Who doesn't hit their brakes in that scenario?
I’ve noticed a line of argument on Reddit that says overloaded trucks can never stop. But if you’re a responsible driver, and you know your vehicle cannot stop at that speed, shouldn’t you drive slower ,within the braking distance you can actually see? Instead of saying, ‘My truck is too heavy, so it’s legally acceptable that I can’t brake… I’ll just damn well drive at the national speed limit maximum.’ When you already know that under any risk you won’t be able to stop, doesn’t defensive driving exist?
So you’re saying you should drive.. what speed limit exactly on the highway to satisfy your standards? He did brake FYI, and no one has said they can NEVER stop. They just take longer than the 100 feet this dude had, and unfortunately he doesn’t have the incredibly fast reflexes and constant awareness that you do
If you pay attention to the GPS lagged speedometer, which shows him braking- and the fact that he had around 100 feet to do so and still couldn’t. What exactly do you expect him to do differently, oh Great Keyboard Warrior? Or do you think he just took his hands off the wheel, foot off the brake and just let it happen?
If you pay attention to that video, the dashcam is mounted right next to the rearview mirror, which is only about halfway up the RV. This indicates the POV vehicle is smaller than the RV, so it can't be a semi. The only thing evident in the video is that the POV car didn't slow down, not that he couldn't. I find it interesting that rather than using the evidence provided, you're relying on literally nothing. The personal attacks really help support the fact that your feelings are being utilized more than the facts available in the video.
Actually the dashcam could literally be on the dash, suction cupped to the very bottom of the windshield. Just like mine is. The mount for the garmin is what youre seeing on the right, not the rearview mirror. So it sounds like your incessant need to be right is clouding your judgement, misconstruing evidence to fit your narrative. Youre also still claiming that the POV car didnt slow down, which has been disproven multiple times throughout the thread.
Thanks for pointing out that it could be the suction cup for the Garmin. I hadn't considered that setup. Although putting a dashcam at the bottom of the windshield is fairly unorthodox. I don't appreciate the personal attacks you feel you need to make. Notice I am able to treat you with respect despite not being in agreement with you.
You can drive a dualie as a CDL A pulling heavy weight. It doesn’t have to be a “Semi”. I drove a “semi” for years and seen plenty of dualies being used as commercial vehicles.
I love how these threads always just devolve into a bunch of morons shrieking into the void about how they are right and everyone else is wrong. My god the internet enabled so much mental illness.
Didnt say the guy could have gone behind the rv, simply by veering a lil to the left and using the brakes the chance of hitting would have been less. Never said anhthing about going left into oncoming traffic lane either just more to the middle
Laying on the horn like that big ass RV is gonna be able to maneuver out of his way. Imagine crashing thru someone's kitchen, then out of their living room, all while never letting off the horn. 😆
my gut reaction is to spout off about how nobody should go 68mph on a road with no median and intersections/driveways, but in reality some dipshit with a college degree designed this road to be wide-the-fuck-open and this is how people drive when they don't feel like anything is going to get in their way, because at the end of the day we're still dumb apes
lol great that the dash cam catches him speeding and not even attempting to break at all. Not to say the rv is in the right, it would’ve been a tight squeeze to make that turn even if the guy had been going the speed limit and hit the breaks. But the guy driving was dumb as fuck too.
Dash cam catches him speeding? Look up the coordinates in the dash cam video. He's doing 68mph on N. State Highway 349 in Texas which has a speed of 70-80mph.
Fuck here we go again. Driver is in a large and heavy truck and cannot stop or even slow down in the second that the RV foolishly pulled out in front of him. But you’ll read this and you’ll still say “durrrr but why do honk but he no do stop?”
Where did you get the information that the guy is in a large heavy truck? From the camera POV, we're about halfway down the full height of the RV (you can see the rearview mirror mount on the right side of the screen), so we can't be in a semi.
He’s in a tractor trailer which need a little over 500 feet to come to a complete stop when traveling 65mph and if turned sharply they will tip as well as continue traveling forward. By continuing straight he is actually minimizing damage as well as saving his load (maybe)
Unless he's in the shortest tractor trailer on the planet, I call bullshit. You can see the rearview mirror mount on the right side of the screen, and that's only halfway up the RV. The POV car is, at best, in a fullsize pickup.
What gives you the impression he is in a tractor trailer? If I were blind, just based on the sound of the horn I would be able to discern otherwise. That's not even taking into account other factors. What makes you so sure of this fact that you felt compelled to post this? Why?
Considering I have been driving for 55 years and haven't had a accident or ticket in over 30 of them. I am very confident in my skills and think you probably have a pretty shitty driving record.
It's a good thing that most RVs are built like absolute sh*t.
Like a stuntman jumping off of a building into a pile of cardboard boxes.
Card board boxes full of shredded wood and metal...
Aim for the bushes?
Parkour!!!
If you eat enough fiber your shit will hold together when it hits the water. Rvs fall apart when they encounter high humidity.
Brakes are useful in these situations, the horn does nothing !
Mph readout on the bottom shows not even the slightest hint of braking.
But the speed does drop after impact.
He started slowing considerably after hitting the RV's brakes.
That's because it's probably gps based readout or something else. A lot of the time, these readouts do not update instantly. They take a second or two. That's why it goes from 68 - 58 down to 53 and then a jump to 27. Somewhere around the 27 is when the crash (actually) occurred. So yes. They were braking...
He might have been going 27 inside the damn RV...
GPS updates at about 1Hz. Thats once a second. You can try this in your own vehicle. You’ll see it basically does update in near real time. That’s plenty to see some effect of braking before the crash. You don’t see him slow until the crash happens. He’s not braking.
In fact the crash also proves you wrong because the only time it updates is immediately upon the crash.
You can also tell by looking at how fast he is passing scenery, the rate never slows until the crash.
And if nothing else you can also steer to avoid an accident..
And you’re not seeing several crucial seconds before this video starts. More time to stop and avoid this that is conveniently left out. He had enough time to honk, he had enough time to avoid an accident.
Idk, I believe you but like a full 3 seconds after impact it still said 56 mph
He’s still moving after the crash is why. RVs are built to be light not take a hit. Probably went right through it. Looks like he hit the rv, slowed immediately, went airborne, flipped and skidded for a while. You can see him pass the yield sign which is beyond the RV. This is about when he is hitting the ground and drops to 27mph. And we don’t see the complete stop, he’s still skidding after the video ends.
Further proving he was gunning that rv down at full speed. Even letting off the gas pedal would have greatly slowed him down. You can tell he didn’t even do that. Not to mention a simple small controlled left veer would have avoided the whole thing.
Regardless the time before this started is what is important. You can see that rv was starting his turn well before the video started. The person who filmed this should go to jail for attempted manslaughter. As they were clearly trying for an insurance claim and lawsuit. But this video is going to backfire on them..
Once my ex-wife asked me why I didn't honk right after I avoided an accident....
Pretty sure avoiding the accident is top priority.
Once per second is really not enough resolution to get instant speed updates. speed is usually an average of the last few readings. Distance over time. This is why it takes several seconds after he has skated to a halt for it to register zero
I didn’t say instant. And the video actually never shows 0 and the car is NOT at a full stop, it is still moving at 27mph. That he is still moving that long after the accident also proves he was likely going 60+ prior.
But one second is fast enough to see ANY deceleration before that accident. Remember, the driver should have been braking at the beginning of the video.
Let’s “brake” it down…
The video is 7 seconds.
The accident happens between seconds 3-4.. at 5s you see an update, at 6 another, and at the final second a third change. Even if it was off by 1s, there were 3s prior to the accident.
Do you see any change in the first 3s? No. That’s because there is no braking happening.
I’ll give you that they may have started braking at 3s, but that is WAY too late. You can’t possibly tell me this person was trying to avoid this accident. You could maybe convince me they were asleep and woke up at the beginning of this video but that’s about it.
You can see the hood dip pretty close to the beginning of the video. He may be towing something heavy and has limited braking capacity. I don't agree that the GPS speed display is nearly as up to date as you suggest it is. It could be like a 3 second rolling average. You don't know.
I mean seriously. You can see the yield sign before the impact. If he was truly still going 55+ mph through the whole collision it wouldn't be visible 3 seconds after impact.
Most likely the impact is reflected when the speed drops from 56 to 27 in one tic. This happens a full 4 seconds after impact. If you adjust for this, he does in fact start slowing down immediately when the video starts.
There is no way he was goign 27 when the crash occured,
Should try reading, i never said the crash happened at 27 mph, i said it happened around the 27mph marker. Theres only a few measurements we have at at our disposal in the video. Could've been hit at 40 for all we know.
From the start of the video (presuming they braked immediately as they started turning) there was roughly 2.5 seconds of deceleration before they hit.
For the updates regarding speed, the changes from 68-27 happened roughly within 2.5ish -3 seconds. So yes... checks out
I wish you wouldnt start with a conclusion and reason towards it, the vehicle shows no signs of slowing at all, but you reason yourself to a conclusion you want,
There are no signs of slowing down. Yeah, no sh**. You have a singular view with no external source of reference to gauge what is happening with the camera's car other than that.
However, your argument falls flat on it's face considering within the first second of the video, you can see the hood of the car lurch down slightly, which (surprise) indicates the car slowing down, which some would call... idk.... braking.
Very common sense to tell if they are braking or not...
No external source of reference? Buddy, look at the damn scenerey around him. It's moving at the same speed up until impact.
This guy driving is a complete muppet, he didn't even attempt slowing down. The front end hardly dipped. Even if it did (it didn't) it dipped so little that it looks like he let off the gas, without hitting his brakes once. Had he slammed on his brakes and moved to the left lane, he would have slowed down enough to pass behind the RV without hitting it. However, if you watch the video again, not only does he NOT slow down, he moves RIGHT towards the front end of that RV.
Also from the point in the video where he realizes the RV is crossing his path, I'd reckon he's about 200-250ft away from it. Assuming he's in a full size pick up truck or SUV. He'd need about 350ft to stop. MEANING, he could have avoided this accident without a shadow of a doubt if he had slammed on his brakes and moved to the left.
Some of you damn people are clearly just as bad at driving as the idiot in this video. Dude deserves to have his license taken away indefniately along with the RV driver for being just as much of an idiot and not waiting for it to be clear to make the turn.
Also, go watch a video of someone braking with a dashcam. You'll see what it actually looks like when someone brakes.
Lack of reading comprehension makes understanding reasoning pretty difficult
Oh, if we win arguments with unfounded claims that are actually just insults then you are wrong because you smell.
Yeah
I wasn't trying to insult you. The post you replied to has perfectly sound reasoning(that's correct). Reading comprehension.
it has reasoning, but its taken as solid when its comnfirmation bias, because the fact there is a delay is not proof it matches wioth what you want it to match, the only real argument is someone claimign to have counted frames and seen 2 more when passing the last white line as the first.
Yeah, I got in a minor car accident last year and my dashcam's speed measurement showed I was still accelerating after the collision, while the footage clearly shows I started braking the moment the other car cross into my lane
but the footage here doesnt show that, they are using your reasoning to defy the reality we all see with our own eyes,
The footage literally shows that lmfao.
The fuck are you talking about. It literally shows the MPH at 27 when they are clearly at a dead stop.
Delayed moving average for the speed. Going from 68 to 0 takes a few seconds for that moving average to catch up to being upside down inside an RV.
You are taking that and extrapolating what you do not see from the vehicles movement, exagerating its significance. The fact it hasnt quite caught up to zero does not mean you can see the vehicle slow down before the crash. The two things arent proven to correlate exactly.
If you could not see the speed and read these argumentsyou would beleive it didnt brake.
Dudes friends crossed the brakes and the horn that morning, showed up at the accident saying "it's a prank bro!"
There's a bit of a delay to it due to the way it averages distance over time. You can see the hood dip slightly pretty immediately signaling brakes.
Also possible he was towing something and couldn't stop on a dime.
You gotta power through the stupidity of other sometimes
Hard to stop 18 wheelers
Doesn't look or sound like an 18-wheeler.
So it's not the RV's fault? Interesting take.
No one is saying that, but someone else doins somethign very stupid doesnt mean you have no responsibility for your own subsequent actions.
The man is driving a massive truck with full load. He cannot stop. Christ sake
Where did you get that information?
He should be able to slow somewhat, if its impossible to slow at all, as it appears, then its an unsafe vehicle.
It is possible.
No he isn't. If he was in a "massive truck" which would most likely be a semi-truck by your description. the POV from the camera would be significantly higher. The camera would literally be at the roof line of that RV.
No, it's absolutely not.
Way to jump to a ridiculous conclusion.
Steering wheels too.
Survival instinct of a potato. No break - because car didnt lean for heavy breaking and no way the suspension is that hard / he turned in to it - lizard brain usually turn away from danger. in this situation, at least he would have hit the passenger side. I bet it was some kind of hillbilly auto-cruise and hands full of stuff that have no place when driving..
Everyone saying the truck wasn't braking is wrong. First, that's a highway in the US. From the back of 1 white stripe to the back of the next one is 40 feet. From the very start you can only see 3 which means the vehicle in the thru lane was only 120 feet from the RV when it started to turn and would need 300 feet to stop completely driving at 65 mph. There was simply not enough time for the gps to register the sudden slowing down.
Even if it was 300ft required to come to a complete stop, he didn't need to stop completely at all. He just needed to slow down enough to avoid him from the back.
This dude just can't drive for shit.
RV was also towing something
Who puts intersections on high speed roads? What the absolute fuck? That's a recipe for disaster, regardless of driver responsibility
It's a left turn lane into a gas station, not an intersection. State highways are similar to interstate highways but can have intersection traffic signals and use variable speed zones. Texas has state highways that have houses on it like a normal neighborhood but the speed limit is 70.
I am unfamiliar, but trafic signal on its own means nothing if the speed limit is not compatible witha timely stop.
in this clip , either there was a reduced speed that was not respected, or a failure in design. because such a setup is very prone to accidents.
I mean, it's not a problem if people didn't drive recklessly and are situationally aware. That RV driver was neither.
He's going 68mph in a 55mph zone and he just passed by a flashing intersection ahead sign. Based on the # of lines in front at the start of the video, he's nearly 200' from the RV when it initiates the turn. He has the reaction time of a sloth.
Also - according to the post itself - guy was pulling a fully loaded trailer. This changes all the math, including the "why didn't you swerve" questions
60-0 distances even in 1 ton pickup trucks is around 140 feet. If the vehicle was braking there'd be evidence of deceleration before impact.
Kinda like the hood pitching down, and the GPS indicated speed lowering over the course of the video? that kind of evidence?
You mean how th same cloud that's visible in the top right that should become more obscured if the front end was pitching down and how the speed was a constant 68 until 1 second after the crash? That's the constant speed decrease you see???
It's not even worth arguing with these people. They'll never admit they're wrong. My eyes see what yours see. This guy didn't even try slowing down. You don't need to even look at the clouds, just look at the tree's and the front end. his front end didn't dip one bit.
Look up "Autobahn emergency braking at 200km/hr" on youtube. Front end dips, the scenerey around slows down immensely.
Thank you for having a brain
Helluva impact 👏
r/ThatLooksExpensive
This has been posted before. Yesterday and many days before.
and yet, I have never seen it. Amazing how you're not the main character after all.
It gets people to say stupid shit and then other people get mad and can’t help themselves and have to correct the people saying stupid shit so it draws a lot of activity
NUH UH!
PROXIMITY ALERT,
PULL UP, PULL UP
Saw the inside for a split second :)
Just baby boomers in motorhomes still being a burden on society.
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Was he speeding? I didn't see any of the crash details.
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Okay thanks I didn't see that at first, I don't know what state he was in, but in my area that highway would have been a 70 mph.
Did you just add the location? I went back and looked it up from the GPS and that's what I came up with too, but from what I was reading it was 70 to 80 mph. I'm in Montana and we're pretty regularly at 70, which is already too fast. Either way it's a bad deal.
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I've seen Texas have 2 lane roads that are 75. And when they do road work on them, the "construction zone" speed limit is 70.
Why did he ram the RV? Being right doesn't help you when you are dead.
Is this a serious question
Yes, the RV driver was wrong all day long but the video shows the other driver making zero attempt to slow or avoid the RV. Who doesn't hit their brakes in that scenario?
Its a big transport truck. They did attempt to break
Do you think a big transport truck goes from 68 to 0 in an instant?
apply breaks now! now! quickly…apply breaks…nevermind
There were many breaks. No brakes, however.
He applied. He applied a lunch break between the moment of seeing danger and actually doing something to prevent the crash
I see you’ve never driven a commercial truck with a load
I’ve noticed a line of argument on Reddit that says overloaded trucks can never stop. But if you’re a responsible driver, and you know your vehicle cannot stop at that speed, shouldn’t you drive slower ,within the braking distance you can actually see? Instead of saying, ‘My truck is too heavy, so it’s legally acceptable that I can’t brake… I’ll just damn well drive at the national speed limit maximum.’ When you already know that under any risk you won’t be able to stop, doesn’t defensive driving exist?
So you’re saying you should drive.. what speed limit exactly on the highway to satisfy your standards? He did brake FYI, and no one has said they can NEVER stop. They just take longer than the 100 feet this dude had, and unfortunately he doesn’t have the incredibly fast reflexes and constant awareness that you do
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Breaks aren't instant as explained here.
“Uh-oh, that RV up ahead is turning in front of me. Guess I will continue driving in a straight line at high speed and hope for the best.”
“Uh oh I’m carrying a full load and need 5X this distance to stop and if I turn then everything will tip.”
Where did you get that information?
It's in the handbook the dmv gives out.
That's not what I asked. I was asking specifically about the POV vehicle. Nothing in the video indicates this is a fully loaded truck.
If you pay attention to the GPS lagged speedometer, which shows him braking- and the fact that he had around 100 feet to do so and still couldn’t. What exactly do you expect him to do differently, oh Great Keyboard Warrior? Or do you think he just took his hands off the wheel, foot off the brake and just let it happen?
If you pay attention to that video, the dashcam is mounted right next to the rearview mirror, which is only about halfway up the RV. This indicates the POV vehicle is smaller than the RV, so it can't be a semi. The only thing evident in the video is that the POV car didn't slow down, not that he couldn't. I find it interesting that rather than using the evidence provided, you're relying on literally nothing. The personal attacks really help support the fact that your feelings are being utilized more than the facts available in the video.
Actually the dashcam could literally be on the dash, suction cupped to the very bottom of the windshield. Just like mine is. The mount for the garmin is what youre seeing on the right, not the rearview mirror. So it sounds like your incessant need to be right is clouding your judgement, misconstruing evidence to fit your narrative. Youre also still claiming that the POV car didnt slow down, which has been disproven multiple times throughout the thread.
Thanks for pointing out that it could be the suction cup for the Garmin. I hadn't considered that setup. Although putting a dashcam at the bottom of the windshield is fairly unorthodox. I don't appreciate the personal attacks you feel you need to make. Notice I am able to treat you with respect despite not being in agreement with you.
You can drive a dualie as a CDL A pulling heavy weight. It doesn’t have to be a “Semi”. I drove a “semi” for years and seen plenty of dualies being used as commercial vehicles.
How you know he’s driving a tractor trailer lol
No, i will turn to hit them head on if i can
Claiming hit and run on his car. Remember kids: only dopes use dope while driving...
this is how it feels for a motorcyclists when a left turning cager blocks the entire forward path.
Is the guy ok?
No turning no brakes.. horn?
Whole thing could have been avoided, seems an extreme example to be in the right? Brakes?
Why do people honk instead of brake?
7 1/2 years and this video is back... again!
There are two kinds of people - people who brake and people who honk. 🤣
I love how these threads always just devolve into a bunch of morons shrieking into the void about how they are right and everyone else is wrong. My god the internet enabled so much mental illness.
Funny thing is. The idiot filming could have very easily veered to the left would have cleared the rv as well as used the brakes
Into what? Oncoming traffic to catch someone else head on at speed?
Na there was time for the filmer driver to veer to the left while slowing down whilest not going into the oncoming lane.
No there wasn't. Plus it was pulling a trailer or a dolly behind it. The only "out" was oncoming traffic, blindly.
Didnt say the guy could have gone behind the rv, simply by veering a lil to the left and using the brakes the chance of hitting would have been less. Never said anhthing about going left into oncoming traffic lane either just more to the middle
The middle of what exactly?
Laying on the horn like that big ass RV is gonna be able to maneuver out of his way. Imagine crashing thru someone's kitchen, then out of their living room, all while never letting off the horn. 😆
Failure to yield the right of way. RVs wrong.
my gut reaction is to spout off about how nobody should go 68mph on a road with no median and intersections/driveways, but in reality some dipshit with a college degree designed this road to be wide-the-fuck-open and this is how people drive when they don't feel like anything is going to get in their way, because at the end of the day we're still dumb apes
James Deans’s last words- ‘He’s gotta see us!’
lol great that the dash cam catches him speeding and not even attempting to break at all. Not to say the rv is in the right, it would’ve been a tight squeeze to make that turn even if the guy had been going the speed limit and hit the breaks. But the guy driving was dumb as fuck too.
Dash cam catches him speeding? Look up the coordinates in the dash cam video. He's doing 68mph on N. State Highway 349 in Texas which has a speed of 70-80mph.
Fuck here we go again. Driver is in a large and heavy truck and cannot stop or even slow down in the second that the RV foolishly pulled out in front of him. But you’ll read this and you’ll still say “durrrr but why do honk but he no do stop?”
Where did you get the information that the guy is in a large heavy truck? From the camera POV, we're about halfway down the full height of the RV (you can see the rearview mirror mount on the right side of the screen), so we can't be in a semi.
I think that info was in the post one of the last several times this was posted on here.
First time I've seen it.
The video is from 2018. It's made the rounds.
Brakes are apparently optional in his timeline.
He’s in a tractor trailer which need a little over 500 feet to come to a complete stop when traveling 65mph and if turned sharply they will tip as well as continue traveling forward. By continuing straight he is actually minimizing damage as well as saving his load (maybe)
Unless he's in the shortest tractor trailer on the planet, I call bullshit. You can see the rearview mirror mount on the right side of the screen, and that's only halfway up the RV. The POV car is, at best, in a fullsize pickup.
What gives you the impression he is in a tractor trailer? If I were blind, just based on the sound of the horn I would be able to discern otherwise. That's not even taking into account other factors. What makes you so sure of this fact that you felt compelled to post this? Why?
If you were on your brakes as quick as your horn things might not of been so bad
Press brakes first, horn second.
They should make horns automatic if you brake hard enough 😂
That's an interesting idea.
They should make breaks automatic if you horn hard enough.
No tires squealing, brakes locking, nothing to avoid this. They had plenty of stopping distance.
You have no idea what you’re talking about 🥳
Considering I have been driving for 55 years and haven't had a accident or ticket in over 30 of them. I am very confident in my skills and think you probably have a pretty shitty driving record.
He breaks at impact lmao
More like the RV forces a break lol
What's defensive driving?
Cam driver doesn't know.
Confused the horn for the brake pedal.
Didn't even try to hit the brakes or swerve. Bro wanted to get paid
some brakes would have helped instead of the horn