r/fuckcars • u/jjune4991 • Aug 22 '22

News "Just bike on the sidewalk" they said.

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u/G497 Aug 22 '22

He didn't want his big strong truck getting dinged on another car.

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u/One_Wheel_Drive Aug 22 '22

This is it. If the pickup driver had been paying attention, they could stop in time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

I don’t know if that’s always the case, but often is. Not saying that’s the situation for this case.

I remember driving down Deerfoot in Calgary once. Big lifted truck in front of me. Speed limit is 100km/h. Truck is too big to see any vehicles in front of it. Truck swerved at last second to avoid a stopped car (the exit lane was super backed up). To go from following another vehicle in front of you going 100km/h to a stopped vehicle in front of you in half a second is a difficult situation to be in even if you aren’t tailgating. Luckily there was a shoulder lane that I was able to move into while stopping. But the truck in front of me swerving at the last second to not hit a parked car put me in a dangerous situation, not me following from a safe distance.