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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / March 2008Here's What Happens When Truckers Don't Check Their Mirrors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY  Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY Geez - 130 mph!!! And you're worried about what the trucker is doing? Ed >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY > >Geez - 130 mph!!! And you're worried about what the trucker is doing? Here we go again. Just because the other guy is speeding doesn't absolve YOU of your responsibilities! Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY >> >>Geez - 130 mph!!! And you're worried about what the trucker is doing? > > Here we go again. Just because the other guy is speeding doesn't > absolve YOU of your responsibilities! I am not saying that it does. But come on, the guy doing a 130 on that narrow heavily travel road is a complete and utter moron. He is an accident waiting to happen. His closing rate on the trucker was well above anything a reaonable person would expect. He was damn lucky the trucker realized that some insane driver was closing at such a high rate and aborted the lane change. Clearly the trucker did check his mirror, or there could have been an accident. Ed >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY >>> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >I am not saying that it does. But come on, the guy doing a 130 on that >narrow heavily travel road is a complete and utter moron. Agreed. And he's not the only moron out there. Which is why mirror checking and learning to judge the closing speed of other vehicles is so important. It's part and parcel of "defensive driving." Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:05:32 -0500, "C. E. White" > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > "Dave's not here, man!" > - Tommy Chong Defensive driving would also include NOT doing stupid things that require someone else to cover the offender's butt. When you check a mirror, you frequently glance back to see what's "in range". If a vehicle is back a ways, you may not anticipate that it's doing 130. (I don't know where that figure came from, nor whether it's mph, kph, furlongs per fortnight or cheerios per bowl.) So, what's a "Gumball 3000"? Is this an official race (not likely on normal streets with normal traffic) or some renegade, unofficial race? Judging by all the radar detectors, etc on the dash, it seems like the latter. In which case, jail 'em all. >> >But come on, the guy doing a 130 on that >> >narrow heavily travel road is a complete and utter moron. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Defensive driving would also include NOT doing stupid things that >require someone else to cover the offender's butt. I never said Alex Roy was driving defensively in that video. >When you check a mirror, you frequently glance back to see what's "in >range". If a vehicle is back a ways, you may not anticipate that it's >doing 130. Yes, it's a common mistake, and not just in that situation. People take a "snapshot" - no more than a brief glance - and see that there are no cars close by. They then ASSUME that all those far-away cars are going to STAY far away forever. It's like the guy who rolls up to a red light, looks left, sees that all the cars are stopped, and then proceeds to make a Slothy right turn JUST as the light turns green for all those stopped cars on his left. Or the idiot who blithely pulls out of the strip mall driveway directly in the path of oncoming 50 MPH traffic. >So, what's a "Gumball 3000"? Is this an official race (not likely on >normal streets with normal traffic) or some renegade, unofficial race? Google Finger broken? http://www.gumball3000.com/about/faqs >Judging by all the radar detectors, etc on the dash, it seems like the >latter. In which case, jail 'em all. Ya gotta catch 'em first. :) Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > Yes, it's a common mistake, and not just in that situation. People > take a "snapshot" - no more than a brief glance - and see that there [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > out of the strip mall driveway directly in the path of oncoming 50 MPH > traffic. Traffic at 50 mph wouldn't be that far above normal--I would expect a quick glance to be sufficient. If the traffic is 130 mph, well, the glance might not cut it because the traffic is so far away. A glance would reveal a car a few blocks away, not something that was about to get you creamed. I've seen those slothy right turns you describe. I don't like them either. Go if you must, but get going, 'cuz I'm on my way. Generally, though, they shouldn't go. ROR is allowed only if it's clear. If the normal speed traffic has to brake, the turner blew it. > >So, what's a "Gumball 3000"? Is this an official race (not likely on > >normal streets with normal traffic) or some renegade, unofficial race? > > Google Finger broken? No. Just old and tired. > http://www.gumball3000.com/about/faqs Sounds like fun, if they follow the regular rules. Judging by the video, that's not a requirement. > >Judging by all the radar detectors, etc on the dash, it seems like the > >latter. In which case, jail 'em all. > > Ya gotta catch 'em first. :) There's too many. > "Dave's not here, man!" > - Tommy Chong >> Yes, it's a common mistake, and not just in that situation. People >> take a "snapshot" - no more than a brief glance - and see that there [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >the traffic is so far away. A glance would reveal a car a few blocks >away, not something that was about to get you creamed. What a lot of people do is flip on their signal, start to drift over, and THEN start looking in the mirror. I suspect that's what the Trucker in the video did. By the time he realized there was faster traffic approaching, he was already half way into the lane. Most people also make no effort to gauge the speed of approaching traffic (or they just don't care). I can't count the number of times some Sloth has changed lanes into my path, forcing me to slow down in order to avoid a collision. As you said about the Sloth right-turn-on-red, if the other guy has to brake, you made a mistake. >> >So, what's a "Gumball 3000"? Is this an official race (not likely on >> >normal streets with normal traffic) or some renegade, unofficial race? >> >> Google Finger broken? > >No. Just old and tired. And lazy! You could have hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" and gotten that link. :) >> http://www.gumball3000.com/about/faqs > >Sounds like fun, if they follow the regular rules. Judging by the >video, that's not a requirement. It's NOT a race - nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. >> >Judging by all the radar detectors, etc on the dash, it seems like the >> >latter. In which case, jail 'em all. >> >> Ya gotta catch 'em first. :) > >There's too many. Have you heard about the cop in Minnesota who once pulled over more than a dozen speeding Corvettes? I have a scan of the newspaper article around here somewhere... Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk_LNZ8liY >> Geez - 130 mph!!! And you're worried about what the trucker is doing? > > Here we go again. Just because the other guy is speeding doesn't > absolve YOU of your responsibilities! Speeding..? Looks very much like Germany, so it's possible that happened on a speed limitless stretch. Besides, 130 mph isn't that fast. Drove faster a week ago in my own BMW in the rain/sleet. Ulf |
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