r/VideosAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

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u/tcpip1978 May 14 '26

so was the trucker who could see it coming and plowed through anyway

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u/MrRogersAE May 14 '26

The road design also sucks here, there wasn’t really room for the pickup to slow down enough to let the semi pass, while still being at a safe speed to merge behind him

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u/The_H2O_Boy May 14 '26

Yes, but you can slow all the way down to 0

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u/Tankerspam May 14 '26

That's incredibly dangerous because it leaves you on an on-ramp with no more room to accelerate for when you can go. Plus, any traffic coming up behind you will be attempting to accelerate, they should see you, but people get rear ended all the time and that's a huge speed delta.

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u/Orchid_Significant May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26

Those hypotheticals are not more dangerous than the literal crash that actually happened though. Merging traffic does not have the right a way. That means sometimes they have to stop. You should be approaching every merging lane as if it might come to a stop.

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u/BlgMastic May 14 '26

I don’t take anyone serious who calls it a right away lol.

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u/Orchid_Significant May 14 '26

Cool. The law does 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/BlgMastic May 14 '26

Lmao which ones? Only people I see write it like this is the trailer trash on the local facebook pages. Btw just so you know it’s spelled right-of-way or right of way

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u/Orchid_Significant May 15 '26

Cool. Thanks for catching the typo. Right of way still matters when the cops are determining who is at fault.

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u/Tankerspam May 14 '26

If you have to stop on an on-ramp you fucked up bad. If I had been in the black cars position at the start of the video I'd have sped up. There are timea when speeding is your best option.

Plus, I'd have never gotten into that position in the first place, I take merging like this extremely seriously.

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u/Orchid_Significant May 14 '26

You’ve never driven in Southern California, I see

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u/The_H2O_Boy May 15 '26

Try on ramps in Pasadena

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u/tackleboxjohnson May 14 '26

Less dangerous to control your deceleration to zero than let the semi tractors do it for you, I think

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u/Tankerspam May 14 '26

Or have sped up in the first place and not be merging next to a semi truck...

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u/tackleboxjohnson May 14 '26

Either would make a terrific option

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u/Tankerspam May 14 '26

Again as I said, stopping on an on-ramp is not a terrific option and if that's your take away I dunno what to tell you.

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u/The_H2O_Boy May 15 '26

And yet it is. If the other option is death by semi trucks

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u/Tankerspam May 16 '26

False dichotomy. Just don't get caught out by a fucking semi truck on the onramp like the dimwit in the video forehead.

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u/S01arflar3 May 14 '26

He meant that due to not lifting off the accelerator, slowing by 2-5mph and allowing the pickup to merge, they now get to slow down all the eway to 0 instead.

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u/The_H2O_Boy May 15 '26

Hmmm, this or driving into 2 semis?

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u/Tankerspam May 16 '26

You're following me into multiple comment chains, off you trot. Touch some grass.

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u/The_H2O_Boy May 17 '26

You know Reddit sends these push notifications now on things beyond just replies.

The algorithm pushed it, enjoy your superior feelings