Holy crap

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/01/2019 at 11:19 • Filed to: None

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Impossible to know if this guy could have gotten away from the semi, but it’s exactly why I always keep my eyes in my mirror if I have to stop on the freeway, and I always allow extra room in front in the hopes of having room to escape.

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 11:28

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Don’t know I’ve ever seen a “reverse mansfield” that bad, unless one of the cases where a car was caught between two trucks. No reason to believe it’s the case in this instance, but I kind of expect to see one unfold every time some witless fool ducks in front of a semi recklessly or, forbid, brake checks a semi. There seems to be a certain psychology out there that believes ability to “spite” the “bully” in the person of a truck “in their way” overrules basic physics.

facw > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 11:29

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Autobraking on semis please. I mean the article doesn’t have enough information to say if it would have saved anyone in this case (certainly some people are way too reckless in terms of cutting off trucks), but it seems like it would be a pretty good thing in general.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 11:31

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Seeing shitty driving all around and accidents like this makes me think sometimes I should just get the safest newest big truck. Or anything that would have possibly kept someone like this alive in such a crash.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 11:31

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This is why I stay as far away from semis as I can on the highway. I would rather not have to be scraped off a mangled Passat.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/01/2019 at 11:33

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Knowing the traffic on that stretch of road as I do, I am almost certain that the Mustang was stopped in traffic and got nailed by the semi.

ttyymmnn > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/01/2019 at 11:35

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That stretch of road is marked no semis in the left lane. That’s a great reason to ride the left lane, but the trucks often ignore that.

jimz > facw 10/01/2019 at 11:36

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plus a hell of a lot of trucks have drum brakes at all wheels which are incredibly lockup-prone.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/01/2019 at 12:21

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It’s pretty much a guarantee that they drive like absolute asshats around here , and are always in the middle of some form of chicken fight with each other.

and 100 more > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 12:43

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It amazes me how willing people are to cut in front of large trucks here. Especially when traffic in Austin loves to go 0-3 0-0 in the span of a couple seconds.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/01/2019 at 12:56

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There seems to be a certain psychology out there that believes ability to “spite” the “bully” in the person of a truck “in their way” overrules basic physics. 

Not to take away from the incident, but I’d like to call out the fact that this also applies to pedestrians.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > facw 10/01/2019 at 12:57

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Semis are the one place I actually want to see self-driving/driver assist tech.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 10/01/2019 at 13:14

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...and cyclists. Some kind of innate quasi- inferiority complex weirdness.

gettingoldercarguy > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 13:36

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Safest drivers in the world

Under_Score > ttyymmnn 10/01/2019 at 18:35

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El Camino Mustang?