NOT ME I must stress, but rather scary nevertheless.
NOT ME I must stress, but rather scary nevertheless.
HOLY...
That's a brown pants moment.
Clearly not his fault, but that driver should have been on the brakes eons earlier. It was clear that truck was going to run the stop. I guess the driver could have assumed he was going the other way, but when I see someone barreling towards a stop but showing no indicators of doing it, I'm off the gas immediately.
If I were driving, perhaps my peripheral vision could catch the fast moving truck, but 1st time seeing the video, I didn't quite see that truck coming at first until it was nearly in front! The snow falling on top of the windshield scared me more because I wasn't expecting to see that!
Anyway, if I were in his shoes, for sure I wouldn't brake hard like that... mainly because it's probably too late! I'd probably just try to steer myself off road onto the grass a bit and then brake test the son of a bitch.
Brakes and tyres work better on the road than wet grass.
The video has a narrow field of view compared to the driver, but the truck could be seen for a while.
But this is fairly typical driving, most people don't look for threats till they are about to hit them.
I wonder if they had headlights on, they do seem to help people notice you.
DN is spot on - most people aren't looking for things that might happen, they are only focused on things that are happening and that's just not a safe way to drive. You need to be looking at everything that is moving or capable of moving and determining where it's going and how that affects you. A truck moving that speed at an intersecting angle needs to be accounted for, and the driver with the cam did no such accounting. On a busy road there might be too many things to reasonably predict, but on a little-used rural road with excellent visibility, there really isn't any excuse.
Ass-hat truck driver. Mouth-breather in the other vehicle.