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While waiting for the car in front of me to make the turn, i was getting a bit impatient. I just looked up to my rear view mirror and all of a sudden i saw Semi and Smoke. I had to GTFO then. Was still expecting the semi to clip me, but somehow he threaded the needle.
Also, as people would ask, Audio Book is Brandon Sanderson's The Bands of Mourning. Book 6 is the Mistborn series. Love it!
Dragline96
This is what happens when you were taught to use your mirrors at all times and the critical importance of maintaining situational awareness. Not only is OP a good driver, but Kudos to whoever taught them in the first place. Well done
LaNikoLaTes
I am i the middle of a Hero of ages right now. God stuff. Also good moves evading.
ColoradoDiceCo
Great job!
cosinewave
Well fuck
PTFCMcGee
Great awareness!
GravyEducation
All great drivers have that mirror awareness. You see something, you get out the fuckin way
solrev
Nice work!
Bystandr
No doubt. Awareness for the win.
CookieMonstersCrumbs
I hope the semi driver was wearing his brown pants
IliveIdyeIliveagain
impressive maneuver OP!
scubadude222
Nice awareness. Good thing you had room to move. I finished the Mistborn series books on tape a little while ago... ;-)
Velv3tThunder
Rust and Ruin, that was close! Journey before destination, but ideally not scudding FINAL destination.
usernameistolkein
Hell, I’d be pissed all that gravel he threw up on the side of my car.
maliciousGman
I'd take the gravel, considering the alternative
witheredspoon
Did you see if he was eventually able to stop before something really bad happened at the next intersection?
icurays1
pumper
Doesn't even look like you can make a left turn there or is this not how continuous lines work over there?
kontroversialkarma
Erm.. you can't park there.
twoamartist
F’ing A friend. Glad you’re okay.
JackieTreehornProductions
Did he get on the radio and thank you for moving out of the way and saving someone's life - maybe his?
blacksasquatch
would they even be able to tell if he did? do they have a CB installed in their vehicle? just looks like a regular pickup truck to me
RetrogradeLlama
Been there myself, although not with a Semi. Just a big van.
superpewpew
Great awareness and glad you are safe, but… shouldn‘t the truck driver be blaring the horn in this case?
Machi4vel
As well as self
And while OP can be proud to have had a good reaction to gtfo, I would have gone way farther down that right roads, il the brakes are already off of that lorry, nobody knows how good of a driver is aboard and manage the direction of that truck.
Good self awareness, well done OP
SatansBestBuddy
1.25x speed on an audiobook? what's the hurry? it's only like 60 hours long (for the whole series)
StraightOnThroughTheChompers
Was heading up the freeway in the left lane. There was a car from the other side sitting in the "emergency vehicle only" crossover connector. This lobotomized moron pulls out into our traffic, in the left lane, going about 25 MPH, and barely tried to speed up. It's a miracle he didn't cause a ten car pile up.
InDogsWeThrust
The audiobook sounds like lonely AI bots trying to communicate
lezgetfukkinreal
Graphic audio actually has a full cast of readers, its pretty cool. I wish they'd do wheel of time.
Lostedge
If you love Brandon Sandersson and the Mistborn series ... you should probably listen the official audiobook version with Krame and Kate.
Gravevoid
I listen to this audio book before and it sounds sped up to me, just the book not the whole video.
CoopDH
Yeah, I listen at 1.25x speed. My mind wanders too much when it is slower speeds.
happyrabbitzz
Apparently that's not a very safe intersection (crosses on the right side).
BrdCdn
There's also no excuse to have smoked all your brakes in a semi like that in what doesn't appear to be particularly mountainous terrain. Either incredibly poor and untrained driving and/or not doing the inspections and service required by law.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Empty double drop on a hood? I'm going with not paying any amount of attention, so poor driving. You have to seriously be cookin along to need to smoke brakes on an empty.
Dimension09
Not to mention, it looks like an empty trailer so it was stopping with the least amount of weight possible. Dude totally wasn't paying attention and had a shitty rig.
jj999124
Yeah reminds me of a clip that went the rounds of a dump truck that'd had a break failure and narrowly missed a schoolbus or some shit. People praised the drivers skill but then more clips arose and locals spoke out how it was a regular issue because the dumb fuck never fixed his fucking brakes and was putting everyone at risk
RUFingKiddingMe
Holy...Crap. That would have been 100% fatal and the truck wouldn't have even slowed down.
Cevius
Going by the amount of smoke coming off the wheels, its possible the brakes had been applied for too long and had overheated. The metal expands and suddenly you don't get any friction at all. Happens a lot here in Australia, where on long stretches of downhill on highways, they instruct to use lower gears so it slows you down, and they have crash beds full of stones as a last ditch method to slow down in a controlled way
mohavewolfpup
Stateside here has that also, California for one. Hopefully your neck of the woods doesn’t have folks using runaway truck ramps as picnic areas. Heh
NR97420
Yes, there was a brake issue. But being that truck was empty, if it was not a sudden mechanical failure, they should not have a CDL
CommunCreator
It’s not that the metal expands, it’s that the hydraulic fluid boils and you suddenly go from high pressure to no pressure.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
There is no hydraulic fluid to boil in a pneumatic air brake system. It uses air. So yes, it is the expansion of heated metal, you're incorrect with your correction.
SmergBlaerghl
Lucky it was just a semi and not a fully erect truck.
BeaverOnFire
thelazyninja
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JustinWasHere
I had a rough day and this made me LOL. Thank you!
SmergBlaerghl
I'm glad to hear it. I hope tomorrow is a better day.
StylesRockman
LOOK OUT THAT SOFTIE TRUCK IS HEADING RIGHT FOR US
MuffinProof
Boing
lezgetfukkinreal
Bahahaha I love that series, and I love graphic audio! A movie for your mind! I've listened to that series so many times.
lezgetfukkinreal
MuzzledOne
Paying attention pays you back.
CallMeCourierSix
Also, everyone should have a dashcam with a front and rear view camera. If something does happen, the other party can't try to weasel out of it. Video tells the story. A decent one will run you $100-$150, but that's instantly paid for when you don't have to shell out your deductible.
GravyEducation
Head on a swivel. You never go on the road you don't have your head on a swivel
DemSumBigAssRidges
Love it!
Canigetbannedagain2
If/when I have to brake really hard, I look behind me 70% and in front of me 30%. There's been a few time I had to do the same thing, get my butt off the road because the guy behind me wasn't watching. I'm glad nobody here got hurt.
StonesTwice
This
Canigetbannedagain2
And do not tailgate, leave some breathing room. You don't always know what's going on in front of the car in front of you.
kraeftig
anytime i have to brake in heavy traffic I brake much harder for the first about 30% of the time I need to brake, and much softer for the remaining 70%. People are bad at reacting and will react late as hell unless they think they have to react immediately. The harder braking makes them want to start braking, but then we both have plenty of time to stop normally after that first second. It's not as hard as brake checking, I'm not trying to be hit - Just make them think they need to brake NOW.
Canigetbannedagain2
Good point, and it really depends on the situation. There's just to many variables to write them here. Sometimes I have to tell my gal to stop talking because it's distracting and I'm looking at the road. Every distraction can add up and take precious seconds away from your reaction time. So, doing 65 mph is about 95 feet per second OR 6-7 car lengths. ( These are rounded number and averages) Imagine loosing 4 seconds of stopping because you're distracted.
Exyr
What are you listening to?
CoopDH
Audio Book is Brandon Sanderson's The Bands of Mourning. Book 6 is the Mistborn series. Love it!
AnotherBeardedCanadian
I recognized it immediately. Graphic audio is good shit and it's all I listen to while driving now. On Stormlight 5 Wind and Truth right now
Hesterry
I love Mistborn. A truly great fantasy, except (no spoilers) for the fact that he HAS to shoe-horn Christian creation theory into every one of his works, at the expense of the story making sense in the end...
yellowgage
SPOILER ALERT
All of Sanderson's books take place in the same universe. There was a singular god, but then a bunch of humans got together and killed god and took his power along with different aspects of his personality.
... Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that tracks particularly close to Christian theology.
Hesterry
Except it does. He explicitly says so in interviews, and the end of Mistborn was the start of the Christian Bible to a T.
Emjayen
Is it inaudible from the capture or is the truck not sounding its horn?
BubblesTheFish
You can hear it. he honks at 23 seconds remaining. (00:29/00:52)
PineappleLoopsBroether
… if you say so … I hear something but I hope it sounded a lot louder to the ear, cuz that sucks
CoopDH
Nope didn't hear it in person. Granted I was already in "Oh Fuck" mode. It was definitely a quiet horn.
BubblesTheFish
I got headphones and yeah it likely was louder in person.
CoopDH
Didn't hear it in the moment. It was super quiet.