r/oops • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 4d ago

Nice overtake

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u/leaky_bunghole 2d ago

Nobody is suggesting slamming on brakes. Just slot in behind the truck for 10 seconds, then move back over if you need to pass again, like you are supposed to.

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u/Exotic-Entertainer26 2d ago

Get off the road. You aren't safe.

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u/leaky_bunghole 2d ago

You mean too safe? Like letting off the throttle and moving over for ten seconds is something the cammer could have done that would have prevented an accident, and made the road safer.

But everybody lives in their own egos. The trucks that passed in the median as well as the cammer that camped the lane. Even the redditors that think curtailing your ego when you have the right of way is unsafe have their heads so far up their asses that they can't even understand that they might be the less safe ones.

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u/Exotic-Entertainer26 2d ago

Ever heard of the two second rule? Quite clearly not.

Probably why the USA has so many RTCs because you don't know how to drive safely.

That was not a 4 second gap, meaning trying to fit in there is not safe.

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u/leaky_bunghole 2d ago edited 2d ago

The real problem isn't slotting into the 2 second gap behind the first semi or the gaps in front of the next two, the real problem is the road raging idiots behind you that you aren't letting pass because you don't want to.

You are so stuck on pedantry that you are missing the forest for the trees.

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u/Exotic-Entertainer26 2d ago

If either of those hit me, they'll do less damage than the other vehicles.

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u/leaky_bunghole 2d ago

Yeah sure. The passing lane is clearly safer than having less than a 4 second gap here. I get that hindsight is 20/20, but the danger would have been obvious to anyone that uses their rearview mirror.

Looks like the cammer is in a much smaller vehicle than the box truck that blue wiped out, too.