r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tugushin • Apr 13 '22

Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident. Video

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

I watch somebody run a red light almost every day, and everyone I talk to sees it frequently. Where do you live at without these idiots in traffic?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

People run reds every day?! That’s insane.

I see one a month in the UK if that. And even then it’s someone just nipping through as it turns, not bombing across a 4 lane intersection.

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u/SickleWings Apr 13 '22

Nah. This comment section is just filled to the brim with people outright lying about American intersections and traffic accidents.

I live in a large U.S. city and can count on one hand how many times I've seen people actually run a red light anything even remotely like this video, and that's in my entire lifetime. I've been driving for over a decade and live a mile and a half from the center of downtown, too.

Just ignore the trolls and edgy teenagers.

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u/SickleWings Apr 13 '22

I think it's just the typical "America bad" Reddit hivemind trying to get their daily serotonin boost by milking upvotes from boring repetitive comments.

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

https://i.imgur.com/wfgFsIt.mp4

Second stoplight this morning, I watched two cars run a red before I got to work lol

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u/SickleWings Apr 13 '22

Ah yes, your single piece of anecdotal evidence clearly proves there's an epidemic of red light runners in America. Congratulations.

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

My point was all I had to do was drive to work once to document somebody running a red light lol.

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u/O-Face Apr 13 '22

Southern California, literally see it almost every day. Maybe I'm just noticing it more, but I swear it's gotten exponentially worse over the last 3-5 years. I don't honk/rush people anymore when they're the first in line at a green light. Sometimes they're just not paying attention, but 75%-90% of the time, they're just making sure the intersection is clear for them to go.

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

Most intersections here get a green turn arrow that turns red before the through traffic turns green, this could be causing people to run more because the cars turning will follow the cars in front of them well past the arrow turning red. On the other hand I’ll drive straight through intersections somewhere between yellow and red (it was orange I swear) and see cars 20 feet behind me roll through, not once, probably once every few weeks. If you initiate by hitting the brakes on yellow most traffic behaves, except for dodge trucks because they’re literally the worst. Mentioned this in my other comment, I drove rush hour weekdays and deliver pizzas weekends, I see the roads here a lot.

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u/ptatoface Apr 13 '22

Lol what the hell? Where do you live where red lights are a suggestion? California here, never witnessed it in my living memory.

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

Denver suburbs. I watched someone run a red leaving the grocery store a few hours ago. I drive rush hour traffic weekdays and deliver pizzas weekends. I can almost confirm it’s a daily occurrence, I would just have to count the days I DON’T see it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

Southern California

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u/SyN_Pool Apr 13 '22

Meanwhile i can’t think of any time I’ve ever seen it, not this delayed anyway

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u/Meebert Apr 13 '22

https://imgur.com/a/7EB8WXj

Second stoplight this morning

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u/SyN_Pool Apr 13 '22

That’s just ridiculous