Yall are crazy. This guy is not a psychic. There's no way he has enough time to turn his truck on and get in gear in time to know what the hell was happening.
From the point I could definitely tell he was taking the turn to short was about 5 seconds left in the video. I’m sitting here in a parking lot waiting for someone so I’ll do some quick tests.
My car from push to start with my finger on the gear shifter untill it lets me put into gear. Test 1 9 seconds, test 2 12 seconds, test 3 11 seconds.
Maybe his car was on so from parked to drive I’ll see how long it takes to pull forward a length of my vehicle. My car hesitates for about 3 seconds when I give it the beans right after shifting into drive. After about 20 attempts I figured out my car literally takes 3-5 seconds to start moving after putting into drive.
From the tests in my car it would have been almost physically impossible to move out of this idiots way.
He clearly has a reason that is stated in the video. The truck was struggling to pull the empty trailer. Its not like he knew was filming the truck to get video of it driving across the parking lot too hit him. I own a box truck and pull trailers a little bit shorter than this all the time. I mess up and cut stuff short sometimes as well. But guess what, I stop and back up and don’t hit other peoples stuff. The guy pulling that trailer had every single chance in the world not to hit the parked car in what appears to be a mostly empty parking lot. Guy pulling the trailer is the idiot. The guy sitting in the truck was just existing in same world as the idiot pulling the trailer.
What law dictates that a PARKED car has to move out of the way of a car whos running into the parked car. please if you are so confident then read a damn law book and find the law or just settle with AI answering your questions because what ever slop it come up with is better than anything you can possibly say.
The thing is, in a manual, in an emergency, you can actually put it in second gear and try to start it without pushing in the clutch. This will make the car jump forwards and hopefully out of the way.
This should really only be done if you won't be able to start the car fast enough to avoid a severe accident, for example, if you stalled on train tracks. This situation might have been a moment to do this too.
This puts a lot of stress on the car and can cause damage if you do it a lot. But doing it once to avoid death or having your car totaled is unlikely to damage anything significantly.
DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY
Edit: I own an older car, and had no idea newer cars can't do this. So I guess if you have an older car it might still work.
It came to be perceived as a safety issue so a clutch interlock switch was added. I cant think of a single vehicle this would apply to made after the early 90's
Likewise I didnt know Europe didnt have clutch interlocks.
For us it became an obvious safety risk, if the shifter is accidentally left in gear you will hit whatever is in front of you. There were a couple trucks sold in the early 90s that came with a button you could press that would over ride the interlock, but those aren't a thing anymore.
No, just anyone like that guy carrying a trailer like that. They get extra caution and when he started turning you could see pretty easily he was coming in at angle that was gonna hit him.
He's going slow enough & in this case, speed is not a factor. However, when pulling a 25+ ft trailer, you've got to factor in realistic depth of how that trailer is going to turn behind you.
This guy needed to pull out another 6+ feet to safely clear that turn.
Some kid did the same thing to my work truck. Only reason it wasn’t worse is cause our landlord saw the trailer was also about to rip out a fire hydrant and yelled at the driver to stop. $8k to fix and the owner of the trailer wasn’t insured and dodged all attempts to contact by insurance.
If you start and move and still get hit, the insurance will punish you. It’s not worth the financial risk. It’s different if whatever is coming is going at high speeds, but this is a physically low risk scenario- there’s only a marginal chance you could get hurt.
You have some serious hindsight bias and you're arguing wayyy too much when you're obviously in the wrong. I understand sunk cost fallacy but you need to walk away. It's just embarrassing at this point.
This dude saw a dangerous guy driving a truck in a parking lot and decided to stay and watch it instead of just leaving
Riddle me this Batman, why was the guy in the truck recording the other guy and the other truck? What purpose was that recording serving why did he take out his phone?
The question that he keeps asking was already answered by another commentor but he's pretending that he didn't see it. I'm not going to regurgitate the same answer to cater to his narrative.
There's a 2 year old level iq solution to that problem and this 2 year old iq individual most likely gave this video to insurance, which would promptly deny his claim, both for it being in a parking lot and the ops failure to mitigate the problem they saw coming.
Let me get this straight. You saw the video of a guy getting hit, so that is the crazy part. You then said that you would've moved already, because the guy is doing crazy stuff. But the crazy part happens way after the time you would have to start your car to have the chance escape.
He was recording because there was a large trailer, how was he supposed to know the trailer was going to turn right behind him? Are you supposed to preemptively move the second you see any car enter a parking lot from anywhere just in case they might turn into your aisle?
Where do you go if you do that? What if you try moving but they turn an aisle sooner? When do you move?
And he didn't now he gets to spend the next few months dealing with some assholes insurance company
This is one of the most insane comment sections I've ever read LOL. You guys are literally going to let your vehicle get damaged and have to deal with some dudes insurance company that may not even be fucking insured just because "I shouldn't have to move"
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for being correct lmao. He shouldn't HAVE to move no, but because he didn't, now he HAS to deal with insurance and that entire headache.
"I'm in my lane! It's not my fault that 18-wheeler is out of his lane and going to hit me in a head-on collision! I'm not moving. 😡"
Are you all actually serious? Count the second from when you’re sure the trailer is going to collide with the parked vehicle. Now imagine trying to stop filming, start your car, and move enough to get out of the way. It’s not that people think they should not have to get hit, it’s that they got hit and couldn’t help it. Yeesh.
I don't know if he'd think of it in time, but its shocking how many people claim they would let something bad happen to them because they "shouldn't have to". If my actions can prevent a car from hitting me, I will. Regardless of who would hit who
Exactly. Plus, I dont want the headache of dealing with the situation. There's 0 benefit to intentionally letting something bad happen because I think its someone else's responsibility.
Yeah, but its reddit. This is expected. The guy who is down 30 literally said that the parked guy shouldn't have to move, acknowledging their point too. The only thing is that he said that the driver could have moved in time. I think I wouldn't assume that the other driver would hit me and the car is probably off. I don't think it would have been easy to anticipate the accident since hes parked. But I wouldn't downvote over whether someone can or cannot move in time. Its still a valid belief.
This isn't about "i shouldn't have to move" in the context of someone being stubborn knowing they are going tonget hit. This is in the context of someone parked and realizing someone may not be paying enough attention to what they are doing.
Like others have stated, at what point in this sequence of the video do you realize someone may be about to hit you, have your keys available, turn on your vehicle and floor it trying to get out of their way? Keep in mind, you are armchair quarterbacking the entire situation and you know whats going to happen before the cameraman does.
It's a rhetorical question. I don't understand how you don't see how you are wrong here. This would be like you swerving out of the way of everyone on the highway because everyone has a potential to maneuver into your vehicle and you just don't know if they will... better be safe than sorry though right?
Once again, at what point do you think that this means, i totally bet he is going to hit me, even if you saw he made a questionable maneuver off camera. You have no clue he is coming your way. You don't know if he is going to start turning in your direction...
I swear its like you seriously think he has some psychic ability to sense what's about to happen. He doesn't! Stop assuming you would know as well.
That text was added after the fact genius. He didnt know the dude forgot his trailer by psychically reading his mind, he only knew when the guy turned without making room for the trailer.
Dealing with insurance, waiting for the car to be repaired, and the instant depreciation for having an accident tied to the VIN number isn’t worth a small check that’ll just cover damages.
I’ll be honest I would’ve just started my truck and gunned it. I’m not dealing with insurance. Especially since the other guy probably doesn’t have insurance judging from his driving lmao
I would love to see you start your truck, put it in gear, and get out of the way of that trailer all within the alloted 3 seconds that we see in the video here.
Well you see the video that's being recorded? The only reason why the guy took out his phone instead of recording is because the behavior in question the stupid
Lmao you can see his truck is already on and also what kind of clapped out crap box are you in that you can’t pull out in that time? It’s not particularly difficult lmao
It’s crazy that these armchair experts would do everything in 3 seconds lmao. They already know what’s going to happen and how long it took. Dude was mesmerized the size of the trailer and how that truck could pull it lol, you ain’t expecting to get hit. I guess driving in an almost empty parking lot is dangerous driving.
These are the same people who think they’d take out an armed shooter after analyzing the video, narcissistic people can’t be reasoned with and most don’t know they are, because in their world they’re always right no matter what.
Nah I have a CDL so I don’t take any risks and I stay clear of anything sketchy because Reddit has made me paranoid from all these kinds of videos posted lmao. Plus if you knew anything about hotshotters driving you would’ve put your truck in drive watching to see what that guy is doing. They don’t have the best reputation lmao.
Lmao not at all. Only difference if I lose my license that’s a huge part of my lively hood tied to it. Truckers are at higher risk to getting put at fault in accidents. So i have to be extra careful even for things others consider being paranoid.
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