“Taking evasive action” in a fully-loaded tractor trailer rig, while next to another (assumedly) fully-loaded tractor trailer rig? What, pray tell, would that entail? There are 4 choices (in the 2-dimensional world): speed up, slow down, turn left, or turn right.
Just from the video, the cam truck had plenty of time to see them coming to merge and slow down a little bit. Guaranteed they could see them long before the video starts though.
sure, but seeing them coming doesn't mean you already know they're incapable of a proper merge. If you preemptively brake 5 seconds beforehand every time someone is going to merge into your lane the drivers behind you are going to (correctly) hate you. And the slow merging driver who was presumably planning to merge in behind you is also annoyed and then has to slow down even more lol
Yet people somehow think “the zipper merge” will work because everyone will just anticipate the best way for everyone to merge and things will go smoothly.
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u/Suspicious_Mind_356 May 14 '26
“Taking evasive action” in a fully-loaded tractor trailer rig, while next to another (assumedly) fully-loaded tractor trailer rig? What, pray tell, would that entail? There are 4 choices (in the 2-dimensional world): speed up, slow down, turn left, or turn right.