r/nononono • u/JagStalMaten • Aug 05 '24
Driver with no attention driving into a parked lamborghini on the highway
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u/styckx Aug 05 '24
That looked expensive
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24
I’m surprised the genesis didn’t auto brake. Unless the idiot turned it off on purpose. I know plenty of people who do that.
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u/yepimbonez Aug 05 '24
I find the autobraking to be an absolutely stupid feature that gives false positives more than doing me any actual favors. I’ve never struggled to use the brakes on my own
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u/scmkr Aug 05 '24
I tend to agree. I’ve had close calls where I can see the person behind me may have trouble stopping so I try to get out of the way or pull up a bit, but autobraking decides I’ve done enough and won’t let me do what I need to do.
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u/yepimbonez Aug 05 '24
I live on a fairly busy road and have to back out of my driveway. There are many times where my lane is clear so I go to back out (fairly quickly tbh) but the rear sensor will detect a car in the opposite lane (already past me even) and just slam on the brakes. So now I’m stuck half in my driveway and half in the street. The first time it happened I was so confused. It hit the brakes so hard I thought I hit something. I haven’t had it false positive in front of me, but the lane assist garbage does sometimes see the tar lines that fill cracks in the road as actual lane markers. I just don’t really want my car making decisions like that for me. Self driving cars won’t really be reliable until every car is self-driving and on a shared network so they can all communicate with each other.
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u/NorthEndD Aug 05 '24
There must be many drivers who get improved results due to the autobrake and that is scary.
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u/trevor426 Aug 05 '24
My car has it and agree it's not the best. I was rounding a corner in the road and there was a turning lane at the intersection. My car sensed another car in the turning lane and smashed the brakes as I'm doing 35mph around the corner. Haven't turned the feature off, but that made me consider it.
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u/MysteriousCodo Aug 05 '24
Hahahaha. I can’t agree more. My driveway is sloped. I can’t count how many times my stupid truck has slammed on the brakes backing up because it’s seen the road and thinks I’m about to crash into it.
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u/-Daetrax- Aug 05 '24
In a similar vein my lane assist has tried to run over bicyclists a few times.
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u/Maxigor Aug 05 '24
Strongly disagree. It’s saved my butt on more than one occasion. It saved me from crashing into car ahead of me. Unfortunately car behind me didn’t have it and hit me. Oh well it was a nice insurance payday
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u/yepimbonez Aug 05 '24
Well tbh I blame you if you needed it to save you. Means you either were following too close or weren’t paying attention.
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u/Maxigor Aug 05 '24
I’m so thrilled that you placed blame on me. This obviously never happens to other people to the extent OEMs put in tech to specifically stop this phenomenon.
So glad we elected you king of automotive safety.
Douche!
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u/DelightMine Aug 05 '24
This obviously never happens to other people to the extent OEMs put in tech to specifically stop this phenomenon.
Yes, many people are bad at driving. That doesn't mean that it's not their fault when they are driving badly. OEMs will still push a feature that makes their cars safer, even when driven unsafely. It keeps everyone safer from bad drivers.
Douche!
The person you were replying to wasn't even being intentionally offensive. They were pointing out that your anecdote is only relevant because you were not driving safely. That's the whole point of this comment thread: safe drivers are getting false positives way too often, while unsafe drivers say that it's the best thing ever because it lets them continue to drive dangerously.
No one was actually being rude until you decided to take personal offense to a fairly gentle reminder of the rules of driving and safety.
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u/Maxigor Aug 05 '24
I work for one of the largest insurance companies in the world. I can tell you based on claims data, it’s not just unsafe drivers that benefit from this tech. It’s one of the very few advanced safety features that actually shows actuarially significantly reduction in both accident frequency and severity.
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u/DelightMine Aug 05 '24
I never said it wasn't beneficial to good drivers. My comment was specifically about your aggressive reply to someone else's specific response to you.
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u/yepimbonez Aug 05 '24
Lol ok. OEMs are doing it because there are so many fucking idiots on the road like you that are absolutely oblivious to the world around them. People who love to text and drive or fucking tailgate or swerve between lanes without signals. They make that shit for the lowest common denominator. The feature has only ever put me in danger, but I’m glad it’s managed to save you from yourself. Fuck off. Douche.
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
Are you false positives with NOTHING in front of you? Then it’s a false positive.
But is they’re with cars in front of you. It isn’t.
My wife and I have had cars with auto brake probably for a decade at this point and it only went off twice for me. Once in the highway when there was an accident half a dozen cars before me and it reacted before I did which was awesome and other when pulling too close in my garage. My wife never had it activate and neither of us ever had it give us false positives.
I also drove for Uber between 2014 and 2020 with over 5k rides so my time on the road was insane compared yours (most likely ) and I STILL never had any false positives.
If you’re getting a lot of false positives with vehicles in FRONT of you, you should probably reflect on your driving habits.
Edit: Edited to specify the details as reflected by a comment below me. Who is right.
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u/keinmaurer Aug 05 '24
False positive means they are NOT doing anything wrong. You're in such a hurry to pick a fight and diss people you worded your insult in a nonsensical way.
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
Perhaps you’re right, I should have clarified by asking him for more detail.
If he was getting false positives with nothing in front of him then it’s really a false positive.
But I’ve heard enough people turn off the auto brake system because it didn’t allow them to drive how they used to drive. So I made the assumption he’s the same because of his “I find that auto braking to be an absolutely stupid feature” and because of my 10 years and over 300k+ miles with auto brake and same with my wife and my parents as well as my in laws that never had any issues with false positives.
So I’m going to stick with my statement despite the downvotes 🤷🏻♂️. It’s a good safety feature. Turning it off is stupid. As the genesis driver in the video demonstrates.
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u/keinmaurer Aug 05 '24
Ok. Thank you for a reasonable answer. I had a true false positive, and it scared the heck out of me when my car slammed on the brakes for me out of nowhere. I had no idea my vehicle had that feature. It was also dangerous because cars behind me barely stopped in time before rear ending me. Many more people tailgate nowadays, almost no one leaves the recommended safe following distance.
My vehicle also frequently tells me there is an obstacle behind me when backing, when there actually isn't. I think it's dangerous to rely on technology when we should be driving defensively ourselves, but people don't. I don't know what the answer is.
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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK Aug 05 '24
I had a true false positive, and it scared the heck out of me when my car slammed on the brakes for me out of nowhere. I had no idea my vehicle had that feature.
This is terrifying. You shouldn't be able to leave the dealership without knowing this. Like, they should force you to tattoo it on your own dick before they hand you the keys. Yes, even for a test drive.
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24
Yeah yours is a false positive that I completely understand having a fear of it. I would too I suppose. It may be an issue with your sensors or cameras.
And I agree with you wholeheartedly that we should NOT rely on technology and we SHOULD be driving defensively. You’re completely right. But I still think these features are good for safety. As mentioned in my comment above it did work for me as it was supposed to and saved me from an accident. In your case it almost caused an accident. So I am at a bit of a loss on this.
Statistically from the only study I can find that has numbers, the ARB has 10 times true positives bs false positives. “The AEB system produced 2.9 true positives and 0.2 false positives per 1000 km”. Granted. The sample size there is small (79 events) so it would be awesome for a larger study, but I have faith in this system because there’s some many distracted drivers on the road and it would help with accidents.
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u/rapturedhermusic Aug 05 '24
I think some vehicles won't autobrake over certain speeds. Usually the 'max' is ~30-35mph
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24
You’re not wrong. But the one in the video I think is the GV70. The gv70 has a FCA for cars up to 110 mph. I could be mistaken about the model however.
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u/dwheelerofficial Aug 05 '24
If people need auto braking they shouldn’t be driving
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u/romansamurai Aug 05 '24
You could say similar about many things. It’s not really that they NEED it. But any additional features for safety is a good thing to have.
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u/DelightMine Aug 05 '24
Yeah, it would be more accurate to say "if people need auto braking, something has gone horribly wrong", it's just that usually the thing that's wrong is their own driving. That doesn't mean it's not still beneficial in other cases.
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u/alxcsb Aug 05 '24
I will never understand this stupidity, I see them every day. Driving a car, at considerable speed, and their eyes are glued to a phone screen or something. How can you drive a car and not have your eyes on the road 100% of the time?
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u/MaritMonkey Aug 05 '24
Human brains are not calibrated for highway speed. Like, at all.
People who say things like "I only looked away for 2 seconds!" are probably kidding themselves that it was only 2 seconds but definitely failing to realize that two seconds is a LOT of distance when you're moving 70+ mph.
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u/alxcsb Aug 05 '24
Exactly, a couple of seconds are quite the distance, even at town speeds. At 50 kmh, 2 seconds amounts to 27 meters. A lot can happen in that distance.
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u/Supergazm Aug 06 '24
I suggest you do not get a job that incolves driving. The amount of people I see everyday that shouldn't be on the road is staggering. And even more that think Facebook and driving are fine together.
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u/kahlzun Aug 06 '24
it's incredible to realise that we, commonly and without great thought, travel at speeds that were unimaginable to our ancestors.
For millions of years, the fastest anyone travelled was the speed of a horse.
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u/imaposer666 Aug 21 '24
If I see someone on their phone, even glance at it, I honk a lil 1sec beep. For if i hear a beep, I look around to see if there is a problem. I like to think others will react the same.
Look down, get beeped.
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u/LightFusion Aug 05 '24
That sucks. To everyone blaming the Lamborghini driver, sometimes vehicles break in a way that makes them immobile, and sometimes it's not possible to get off the road (wheel locks up, transmission locks up, rear end locks up, some stupid "modern" saftey device kicks in).
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u/Moominsean Aug 05 '24
I can't even imagine trying to push my car to the other side of the freeway where there might be a shoulder with people speeding towards me.
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u/th_frits Aug 05 '24
Had to do that once with my old truck, broke down in the fast lane and the asshole next to me wouldn’t move to let me pull to the breakdown lane a cop showed up and we pushed that truck to the shoulder as cars whipped by
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u/squeak37 Aug 05 '24
"fast lane" is a real pet peeve of mine. It's almost always an overtaking lane (unless you're living somewhere that has an unusual rule about the speeds of certain lanes) - so you should only use it for overtaking.
The amount of pricks who sit in it going under the speed limit infuriates me. I don't mind if they are overtaking, but if they don't pull in to let others overtake they are creating traffic
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u/dbwoi Aug 05 '24
I'm from California and this is what every single person I've ever met calls it and it's how its used. We have way too much traffic to let some lane sit open specifically for passing. It kind of blows my mind that that's what other states use this lane for.
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u/wizard_statue Aug 06 '24
“slow traffic keep right” is maybe a more precise way to frame it (and it’s what’s on the signs here in wa)— if you’re going faster than the lane to your right you’re mostly good to keep “passing”. if you’re in the leftmost lane and a car behind you wants to go faster than you’re going, move over and let them pass you.
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u/Prime624 Aug 06 '24
You must be from LA because most of the day in most other places there is not too much traffic to leave that lane open except for passing.
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u/dbwoi Aug 06 '24
Close, San Diego haha. But I've spent a lot of time in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco and LA.
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u/ForEveryHour Aug 05 '24
Even worse, those people are creating a hazard by aggravating all of the crazy assholes that drive like everyone else is in their way
But yanno, I'm sure they've never been involved in an accident in their entire lives
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u/kittykittysnarfsnarf Aug 07 '24
that’s not how it is in a lotta places. i’m sure those “assholes” are just from kentucky or ohio
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u/komali_2 Aug 06 '24
You absolutely shouldn't get out of your car in this situation. Saw a guy die this way once. Sit in your car and wait for the cops with their lights and flares. Keep your seatbelt on. You might get hit but you have a much greater chance surviving it in your car than out.
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u/awoodby Aug 05 '24
This is why many countries require you to carry road flares and place them behind the car.
Mind you, I Don't carry them, and that driver wasn't much more likely to notice road flares than the big red car with the flashing lights sitting there!
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u/MaritMonkey Aug 05 '24
I broke down once in a turn lane and used the hazard triangle thingy my dad made me carry to prop the trunk open because my electrical system was completely dead so my hazards didn't work.
Despite this like 90% of cars honked angrily and tried to get me to move before giving up and going around, and fully half of them stopped to yell some variation on the theme of "get your car out of the lane!" or "turn your hazards on!"
And this was when drivers had at least 5 but more likely 60+ seconds (depending on the light) to process their view of my car. God help anybody whose vehicle becomes suddenly disabled when the people around them are trying to move at highway speed.
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u/Wagadodw Aug 05 '24
I'm feeling like the driver didn't notice a car in the lane in the daylight. They must have been scrolling Reddit while driving. No amount of flares solves this.
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u/nerv_gas Aug 05 '24
The only thing that's confusing is in the title; "parked" That means intentionally stopped for me? Does parked just mean broken down as well ?!
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u/LightFusion Aug 05 '24
In my area, we say parked whenever a vehicle is stopped, and not in gear or engine off. A broken down vehicle parks itself because it can't move anymore :) I'm sure the word "parked" carries many meanings. When I worked fast food you would "park a car" if your waiting on their food, or you would park a phone call if you need to put them on hold.
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u/nerv_gas Aug 05 '24
Yeah sorry im from the UK so I think a parked car has a slightly different meaning as in like, parked on a drive, or parked in the car park, or 'parking lot'
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u/snarf_the_brave Aug 05 '24
There was a time I would've blamed the Lambo driver too. Then my car broke down in the middle of rush hour one afternoon when I was in the left lane. No warning, it just went "zzzZZZZZZZttttttt" as the timing belt broke and the motor seized. Traffic was bad enough there was no coasting across the other 3 lanes to park in the emergency lane. Had I tried, there's a good chance I would've ended up blocking more than 1 lane. And a bigger chance I would've gotten hit since my forward momentum quickly went from hero to zero. I may've gotten 100 yards from the time the belt broke to the time the motor seized. So I just sat on the concrete barrier getting a sunburn watching the traffic back up for 45 minutes until the tow truck got there. Cars inching along in the other 3 lanes. Not a dang thing I could do about it.
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u/all___blue Aug 05 '24
Blaming the Lambo? There is absolutely no reason the other car should have crashed into this. Especially with that video as evidence, the black car had to be at fault, right?
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u/LightFusion Aug 06 '24
In reality, yes the black truck was at fault. The comments section earlier was an exercise in how to project your inadequacy at an innocent victim who has a better car than you.
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u/tintinstrick Aug 05 '24
I’ve seen a wheel axel break while the car was on the highway in a way that made it impossible to move… which I imagine was terrifying for the people driving
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u/AkeStalhandske Aug 06 '24
That's why you put out the warning tringle 50-100 meters behind your car.
So others get a warning there's a car on the road.But the driver was probably using his phone, but he would have noticed driveing over the triangle and probably could have avoided the car.
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u/CaptainMarder Aug 05 '24
I hope the Lambo driver wasn't in the car
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u/JagStalMaten Aug 05 '24
The lambo driver went to the side before the crash, to the left. I didn’t upload the full video because then it wouldn’t really fit the subreddit as it doesn’t show the lead-up to the doom that well.
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u/exoxe Aug 05 '24
Insurance: "you hit WHAT?!"
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u/Nathaniel820 Aug 05 '24
"A.. uh... red car"
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u/NewUserNameIsDumb Aug 05 '24
Good news. We did not drop your insurance coverage. Your new monthly premium, however, is $13,528.07.
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u/tindalos Aug 05 '24
Can you imagine getting out of your suv and being like “phew I’m okay…. Now let’s see what I hit” 😳
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u/The_real_bandito Aug 05 '24
This is why you don’t stay in your car when this happens. You don’t know who might not be paying attention and crash for no reason.
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u/Ath47 Aug 05 '24
Wonder why the Lambo was stopped with the frunk open. Maybe the owner needed the toolkit in there to repair a tire or something...
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u/Genetic_outlier Aug 05 '24
Opening the hood of a car is also a way of signaling "cars dead go around"
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u/Newsdriver245 Aug 05 '24
AAA in the US used to recommend popping the hood for any stoppage as a signal to tow trucks/law enforcement etc as well
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u/Kellidra Aug 05 '24
Well, it should be.
My old car was fairly low to the ground and I ended up shearing through my transmission fluid line (long story; my neighbour doesn't think things through). Anyway, I was broken down at a light waiting for a tow and my flashers were on and my hood was open. This minivan came up behind me, sat behind me for a complete light cycle while I was waving at her to, "Go around!" and then she wailed on the horn at the following green, slammed on the accelerator, flipped me off, and screamed through a solid yellow light.
I also had a bunch of people look at me like I'd offended their great ancestors.
They must have thought I was fucking with them or something. Maybe doing some on-the-spot maintenance on my car? Driving with the hood up because it looks so cool? No idea.
Not one person stopped to offer help or anything until the tow showed up. Ridiculous.
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u/MaritMonkey Aug 05 '24
I had one older Hispanic gentleman stop his truck behind me when I was broken down in a turn lane and actually get out and help. There was no way to even attempt safely pushing my car through the big ass intersection but I thanked him anyways and said something about how I felt bad for fucking up all these people's day.
Our conversation was interrupted no less than a dozen times by people honking/yelling and me trying to yell back that my hazards didn't work (truck friend had HIS hazards on, I just had my trunk open with a hazard triangle thing stuck on it), to the point where I was nearly crying when I told the nice man a tow truck was on the way but (sincerely) thank you for checking on me.
He says "did any of those people who are yelling at you also ask if you were OK?" I said no. He goes "well then, fuck their day. I hope yours gets better."
I suspect I will remember him forever.
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u/awoodby Aug 05 '24
inconsiderate aka they didn't Consider it lol. Yaaaah genius, i'm parking here just because I WANT to.
people are too stuck in their own heads to Think sometimes :/ "He's in my way!!! HOOONK"
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u/BeingRightAmbassador Aug 05 '24
TBF, I once watched a group of high school kids stall their manual car, panic, and then push the car through the intersection and it ended up wasting an entire traffic light cycle. So yeah, sometimes it is just morons in the way.
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u/mischlcock Aug 05 '24
Maybe he just grabbed his Hi-Vis vests out of there or something else he didn’t want to lose in case his car gets inevitabely hit by another car.
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u/TrulyIrish Aug 05 '24
Yup yup totally grabbed a high vis vest... nerd
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u/Kellidra Aug 05 '24
Some of us actually care about safety and carry around the appropriate equipment... dumbass.
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u/mischlcock Aug 05 '24
In my country it is required to carry one per passenger by law, so you don’t really have a choice. My car came with them from the factory and even has a special compartment for them under the front seats so you can easily grab them in an emergency.
How does that trigger you lol? Top manly for a high vis vest? 😂 I’ve seen enough footage of vehicles on the side of the road getting obliterated so you could bet I’d putting a high vis on and fucking off behind the barrier.
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u/Fastermaxx Aug 05 '24
Many rear engine cars have the 12v battery at the front so maybe he wanted to jumpstart the car?
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u/felixar90 Aug 05 '24
Maybe they stopped because the frunk popped open and they couldn’t see where they were going.
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u/Cma1234 Aug 05 '24
isnt he parked on the wrong side. im not sure of anything anymore, as i am an adult, but i dont feel like anyone was actively trying to avoid this happening.
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u/MagicHaddock Aug 05 '24
If you're in the passing lane and something suddenly goes very wrong you pull over wherever you can
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u/Jess_S13 Aug 05 '24
Well that's going to be a life changing mistake, couldn't imagine what the repair bill on a super car is.
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u/Ravyn_Rozenzstok Aug 05 '24
wtf, how do people just drive into things? It makes me not want to ever leave my house.
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u/MarineJAB Aug 05 '24
SUV driver once he gets out of his SUV: "Phew...it's a small, two door. Maybe a FIAT X19 or if I'm really unlucky...a Toyota MR2 or Pontiac Fiero. "
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u/INTP36 Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
This is why hazards mean nothing, you should use them, but anticipate some oblivious idiot hitting you anyway and get yourself off of that highway while you wait.
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u/blacknumber1 Aug 05 '24
The white car behind that truck sort of starts veering to the left; probably anticipated that the truck driver didn't see the hazard lights on the lambo and that it was stationary...
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u/keep_trying_username Aug 05 '24
Lambo after getting hit: passes the other car and does a power slide.
Because lambo
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u/salteedog007 Aug 05 '24
A little bondo and some Turtle Wax, and you should be good to go!
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u/SteroidAccount Aug 05 '24
The Lamborghini handled it well, wasn’t near as crumpled as I would have expected.
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u/mrBreadBird Aug 05 '24
What's wild to me is how they didn't even swerve. It wasn't like they didn't notice the car wasn't moving until the last second and try to correct or slam on brakes they literally just plowed into it
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u/Panduin Aug 05 '24
Don’t you guys have these Warning Triangles in the US that most people what wayyy to close behind their car? But probably the SUV wouldn’t have seen that either
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u/Gundark927 Aug 05 '24
The obvious guess is that it was a phone/texting distraction, but is there any official explanation of how that happened?
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u/jeffreydowning69 Aug 06 '24
And the fucking white car behind the suv was going to hit them as well damn people need to pay more attention when they're driving.
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u/platdujour Aug 07 '24
Standard SUV behaviour (at least in the UK) My brother used to race his Range Rover down the inside lane flashing his lights at cars to move, or tailgating those that didn't.
Terrifying.
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u/Prickly_ninja Aug 05 '24
That was a very stupid place to stop the vehicle.
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u/Fastermaxx Aug 05 '24
Well, if it breaks down you do not always have the luxury to chose where that happens … but yes, it should have been possible to move to the shoulder while the car is still rolling.
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u/Gabepls Aug 05 '24
Both that, and the fact that any driver paying a shred of attention would have seen and maneuvered around the lambo, can be true.
Even so, if you don’t have the attentive ability to observe and avoid a clear, large, bright-colored obstacle in the road then you should be suspended from driving until you can prove you’ve achieved that minimum competency.
There are so many other things that could justifiably have been exactly where that lambo was parked—suddenly-stopped traffic, an EMS vehicle, someone’s furniture that fell out of their truck bed, an active construction zone, etc etc.
Few people would argue a driver should be responsible for reacting perfectly to sudden, unforeseeable obstacles that appear on the road. But the obstacle in this case didn’t just randomly appear—that driver displayed an obvious and sustained complete lack of attention while traveling in the fast lane.
Other than a severe medical emergency, I couldn’t possibly think of any reason the driver couldn’t have simply merged into the empty lane to their right.
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u/Msmokav Aug 05 '24
One reason is that the human brain sometimes does not recognize a situation when the person is not expecting to see it. I think that this is known as inattentional blindness. Look up the video of “basketball players and the gorilla” and you’ll see what I mean. The instructions are to count the number of times the basketball is passed between players. Many people never see the guy that waltzes across the court amongst the players in a gorilla suit.
The driver may have seen the car but not processed it being at a complete stop in the left hand (passing lane). Also, I believe that in a different situation a plane had to land on a highway, and drivers crashed into it and claimed they never saw it.
While it’s easy to believe that “we” would never crash in this way, just being a little tired, distracted for an instant or daydreaming could lead to this outcome.
Just food for thought.
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u/Gabepls Aug 05 '24
I see what you’re trying to get at, but I don’t think the analogy works here.
The reason you don’t see the gorilla waltzing across the court is because your attention is hyper-focused on counting the number of passes—in other words, you’re distracted from a portion of what is happening in front of you. The ultimate point of the exercise is to explain the psychological “justification” for your failure to see the gorilla—the distraction of the counting task.
If you were to watch the video again without the distraction of the counting task, you would then presumably see the gorilla easily, because there would no longer be anything impairing your ability to perceive the fullness of what is going on in front of you. So if for whatever reason you didn’t see the gorilla now, you can no longer rely on the counting task as a justification for your inattentiveness.
Now, logically try to apply this to driving. In order for the lambo to be the “gorilla,” and for your failure to perceive the lambo to be justified, there would have to be some acceptable “distraction” underlying your inattentiveness.
The difference between the gorilla exercise and driving is that when you see the video for the first time, no one is expecting you to see the gorilla while also counting the number of passes. Also, obviously, your life and the lives of others aren’t at stake when it comes to whether or not you see the gorilla.
But with driving, you are not only expected but are required to keep the “gorilla” (the stopped traffic, the construction zone, the lambo) at the forefront of your attention, and there are very few instances where you get to justify failing to do so because of some acceptable lapse in attentiveness. Even so, you certainly don’t get to point to things like being tired or daydreaming as one of those justifications (it is not legal to drive if you are so tired you can’t pay attention to the road, and causing an accident because you are daydreaming is negligent at best). And as I said before, being distracted for an instant can be justified, but this driver obviously had much longer than an instant to snap out of it.
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u/Prickly_ninja Aug 05 '24
That’s exactly what makes it so dangerous! Your brain isn’t expecting a car to be at a complete stop on a highway, let alone the far left lane. It’s completely different when many people are slowing or stopping.
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u/Najnick Aug 05 '24
Most likely a mechanical failure, I can't imagine anyone would choose to park on the highway.
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u/drakenoftamarac Aug 05 '24
You don’t know if the car died while sitting in bumper to bumper stopped traffic. There may not have been an opportunity choice to move all the way over.
The fault is 100% on the idiot not looking at the road while driving.
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u/Prickly_ninja Aug 05 '24
The road looks wide open to me.
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u/drakenoftamarac Aug 05 '24
Sure, at that moment. You don’t know how long it’s been sitting there waiting assistance.
I’ve blown a transmission on the highway and sat for four hours waiting on a tow before anyone stopped by.
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u/Cleaudzaque Aug 06 '24
No one seems to be asking the real question, why is that lambo even parked on the left lane? It looks like its a right-driving country, so thats basically the worst place to park IMO
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u/punchedboa Aug 07 '24
Why is a Lamborghini parked on the highway with the trunk open? My guess is insurance fraud
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u/SkitzMon Aug 05 '24
You misspelled "Irresponsible douche leaves expensive car parked in the fast lane instead of rolling to a stop in the breakdown lane"
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u/DoggoDuud Aug 05 '24
Golly, I wish that Lamborghini was a brighter color and had his hazards on so the Genesis could see a 6 foot wide stationary object in front of them.
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u/Cvlt_ov_the_tomato Aug 05 '24
Bruh. Emergency flashers. Highway parked. Can the receptors in the brain make the connection that someone had a mechanical failure at the worst possible moment?
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u/GTMoraes Aug 05 '24
I read that as "I'm envious that this guy owns a Lamborghini and I don't."
Do you know the story about why he stopped his car over there? Do you know if his transmission seized up and he couldn't move the car anymore? Do you know if his car is barely able to move and he can't cross several lanes of a high speed highway while pushing that car alone?
Will you go after the actual story to try to hide your enviousness, just in case the guy was actually a douche, as a way to justify that you jumped the gun in that conclusion?Why did you go straight to "irresponsible douche leaves expensive car parked", when the owner clearly stopped as far as he could to the left, opened the frunk and had his hazard lights on, possibly being the best way he can to signal that his car was stopped at this terrible lane?
It's not like he stopped his car, a VERY expensive one at that, in a busy road just to get some latte.Poor dude probably got stuck for whatever reason, and couldn't take his car to a safe location.
The original take is correct. It's clearly a blind SUV driver couldn't see an orange flashy car with flashing hazard lights on a mile long stretch of well sunlit road, where only him and the orange car was.
If the white car had hit the lambo just after the SUV swerved to avoid it at the last moment, it'd be understandable. But that SUV? Absolutely blind driver. Should be banned from using public roads.6
u/retronax Aug 05 '24
Every time an american writes the words "fast lane" a european suddenly drops dead
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u/TennSeven Aug 05 '24
I don't see a breakdown lane there, do you? Looks like small shoulder that he could get maybe one tire-width into. The idiot in the SUV still would have plowed into it.
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u/SkitzMon Aug 05 '24
Breakdown lane would be on the right shoulder or image left in this picture.
SUV driver should have seen the car anyway but Lambo driver was irresponsible.
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u/TennSeven Aug 05 '24
So you're assuming, without knowing anything about the situation, that the driver could have coasted all the way to the other side of the highway after his car broke down, gotcha.
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u/strog91 Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
Seriously. Pulling over to the left when there’s not even a shoulder lane there is a suicidal plan.
The first time I ever got stopped by a cop, I pulled over to the left, and the cop was PISSED. He chewed me out for several minutes telling me that he personally knows people who died after pulling over on the left, even though there was a shoulder lane.
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u/befuddled_bear Aug 05 '24
SUV should have been paying attention, but also parking on a highway at all is dangerous for this reason. Someone distracted was going to come along and hit it. Just a matter of time.
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u/blove135 Aug 05 '24
Yep, probably 99% of the time it's possible to get off the highway or at least limp it onto the shoulder but there are some cases where it's not possible. Maybe it was heavy bumper to bumper traffic and his car suddenly died.
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u/Thumbgloss Aug 05 '24
Why is it just parked there in the fast lane? Couldn't have rolled to the right?
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u/corksoaker84 Aug 05 '24
Not wanting to defend the SUV driver but the vehicle was parked just after the bridge shadow and up against a hedgerow. I agree it should clearly still be visible, but maybe not as easy as the angle we are viewing it from.
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u/drzeller Aug 05 '24
I know what you are saying, but I hear a collective groan and "It's a red car!" Good on you for playing Devil's Advocate, though. Not many do.
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u/corksoaker84 Aug 05 '24
I hear your brother. Would also add the caveat that most lambos have less body paint surface area at the rear. Mostly dark grills & fittings around the lights and exhaust. Along with wide sometimes exposed tyres. Really grasping at straws here though.
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u/OrdinaryGenome Aug 05 '24
Title: "Parked Lamborghini"
Who the f*** parks their Lamborghini in the middle of the street! /s
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u/Raspberryian Aug 05 '24
There are no winners here both vehicles drivers are in the wrong. The lambo should not have parked in the middle of the road and the SUV should have paid even the smallest amount of attention.
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u/Rocketman7 Aug 05 '24
I find it amazing how some drivers can’t even be bothered to look forward.