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u/Zem_42 8d ago
Lifetime ban of driving. What was he thinking?? And in the left (fast) lane of all the lanes?!???
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u/Skoodge42 8d ago
and jail time.
Like 15 years for putting so many lives at risk. If the other driver died, they should never see the sun again unless it's behind bars.
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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals 8d ago
LOL the second half was totally unnecessary but makes this comment a bit funnier, as if there was a more appropriate lane
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u/TwoNowFive 8d ago
Nice view of the fence links
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u/Stunning_Box8782 8d ago
I feel like we got the gist of it
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u/Basicly-Inevitable 8d ago
No, no. I want MORE Fence!
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u/XChrisUnknownX 8d ago
I would also like more fence plz.
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u/Basicly-Inevitable 8d ago
More Fence!!
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u/XChrisUnknownX 8d ago
Then, atop that fence, another fence.
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u/SeemedReasonableThen 8d ago
so you get the two-level effect with a little path running down the middle?
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u/Basicly-Inevitable 8d ago
Links please!
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u/mawesome4ever 8d ago
I don’t know how I feel about this, I’m on the fence
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u/cat_boss1549 8d ago
Oh no I'm not falling for that again
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u/TheMountain11 8d ago
I think what we saw was great but fellas.. we can make something special here but I’m gonna need more fence!
I got a fever and the only prescription is MORE FENCE!
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 8d ago
But was an offence committed ? Works better in English-English spelling.
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u/BalognaSandwiches 8d ago
My iPhone 17 is incapable of focusing beyond chain link fences, even with aggressive taps
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u/Reditor18472 8d ago
Autofocus makes me feel crazy, and the camera rarely focuses where I want it to
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u/astralchanterelle 8d ago
I've had iPhones for 10 years now and I still cant figure out the focus
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u/Reditor18472 8d ago
With my iphone7 I didn’t have a ridiculous number of fancy camera features so usually tapping on where I wanted the camera to focus once was enough. But when I was still having issues, I would tap and hold on the area out to the camera to focus and that would turn off auto focus temporarily. It sort of works for my iPhone 16.
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 8d ago
I know. I on;y have so many hands and I’m supposed to keep two fingers on the screen AND hold the camera horizontally? Are you insane, Tim Apple?
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u/bolanrox 8d ago
makes me so happy i grew up shooting manual focus. My Nikomat had a built in light meter so i could set the apature / shutter speed correctly with no guess work. and that was fancy shit,
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u/Reditor18472 8d ago
My father has a friend who was a wedding photographer, so he taught me all the works when it comes to using cameras, and I wish I had that level of control when it comes to taking photos on my phone.
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u/Sea_Log_9769 8d ago
True, autofocus is annoying, even on my actual camera, but it's sorta my only option
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u/Known-Exam-9820 8d ago
This happens to me when trying to shoot through a window with a screen in it. iPhone used to be so good, not the functional mess that it is now
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u/MastWanted 8d ago
I have a Pixel, not an iPhone, but I assume you can manually adjust focus on an iPhone?
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u/OuttHouseMouse 8d ago
I have more confidence that its not ai with details that make it shitty like that
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u/not_so_subtle_now 8d ago
Almost got through a thread without someone bringing up AI
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u/Environmental-Tap255 8d ago
Yeah but what are people supposed to do, when like 90% of stuff posted is AI these days, like this video. Ain't our fault. Tell these fuckers to stop flooding the Internet with fake bullshit and we'll stop talking about it.
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u/FighterFly3 8d ago
Nah, it’s hard to figure out how to focus a phone camera through a chain fence when you’re actively seeing potentially deadly event. She did nothing wrong, if anything she did great as far as I’m concerned. Anyone saying she should’ve done better has never been I a situation like this, so leave your ego in your mom’s basement.
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 8d ago
I suppose the person filming could just climb the fence to take a better shot for you next time?
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u/pantsoffancy 7d ago
I'm sure the person recording will try harder next time now that you told them how upset you are
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u/Real_FishyXY 8d ago
Can we stop judging the fence thing? Some of you just want to complain about everything, it's a good WCGW post.
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u/Mountain_Band_2732 8d ago
Reddit gets mad about any video that slightly changes angle when an accident happens while somehow, at the same time, also being mad about how people keep filming as something horrible happens.
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u/PlanktonInternal5948 8d ago
You could’ve just ended it at ‘reddit gets mad about any video’
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u/Mountain_Band_2732 8d ago
You're right. Every video is either staged or filled with the most incompetent/reprehensible human beings.
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u/LeftHandAnomaly 8d ago
No but you don't understand, if it were me, redditor, I would have been immaculate in my filming/reaction time/whatever the fuck
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u/VegetableRound2819 8d ago
But probably not as good as mine as I would’ve just simply Judo-chopped the attacking polar bear, poked it in the eye, and accepted my Victoria Cross.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8d ago
Or it's AI because humans apparently don't take videos anymore
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 8d ago
I’m so sick of people claiming everything is AI. Same people who used to claim everything was Photoshopped or CGI.
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u/TheDarkGrayKnight 8d ago
Yeah but I do think each site has its own brand of insufferability. Reddit has the snarky pedantic market cornered plus a love of copypastas.
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u/floralfemmeforest 8d ago
Generally yes, but I've found that comment sections on Tiktok of all places tend to be more positive, maybe because the algorithm is so focused that people really only see what they want.
On Reddit everyone is determined to be miserable and trying to sound smart about it, on Instagram most people are also mean and miserable but are less smart. I can't speak to any other medium at this moment lol.
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u/WrestleSocietyXShill 8d ago
And god forbid if a woman dares to scream when something unexpected and alarming happens, then we get to read 500 comments saying "DAE WHY DOES WOMAN ALWAYS SCREAM!? IT WONT HELP ANYTHING!"
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u/HenriettaSyndrome 8d ago
Good luck with that. Redditors love to be vindictive unforgiving trolls who act like everything they do is perfect and can't let any mistakes go lol
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u/_Thermalflask 8d ago
What pisses me off is when they judge someone for not picking the 100% optimal thing to do in an insane unexpected situation, as if everybody totally does the perfect thing in stressful situations.
"He's an idiot for making a tourniqet from his shirt instead of his sweater which is a more optimal material, and he should have applied it an inch higher, what a dumbass"
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u/HenriettaSyndrome 8d ago
Ya apparently everyone has perfect control over their adrenaline and are experts in high stress situations
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u/RedditTechAnon 8d ago
I think there's a bonus WCGW in that clip of distracted driving. The car that struck the other didn't even try to dodge.
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u/Real_FishyXY 8d ago
I can't wait for the commentors from dashcams to argue that it's easily a 50/50 error 🤣
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u/mexicannormie 8d ago
This is Reddit, you're not allowed to just enjoy things
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u/yungsausages 8d ago
Sorry, I carry a professional camera (and a sound guy who follows me around) everywhere I go just in case I get some juicy Reddit content, if I can do it so can OP
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u/DonatedEyeballs 8d ago
Right? I’m not going to spend time dicking around with the settings on my phone camera when I see something like that.
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u/BackToSchoolMuff 8d ago
No fence links: "oh wow, suspicious how he just happened to be at the right place and the right time"
Fence links: "remove 3 generations of this cretin's bloodline from existence"
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u/AngelG21 8d ago
Well this happened in Argentina or at least I saw the news of this there.
The driver was a 40ish woman who miss her exit so goes reverse to make it...
The other car was a man ¿50 ish? in a VWvento (surprisingly securely crash car for the automobile industry here).
If I remember correctly both of them are okay.
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u/Fuka-Obligation666 8d ago
https://reddit.com/link/owaoin0/video/b364s4u1o0ch1/player
Here’s the aftermath
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u/Frosti11icus 8d ago
Dude in the white car is still just standing in the middle of the freeway lol. I don't think he understands the context of the freeway.
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u/volkz_z 8d ago edited 8d ago
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u/Ok-Many1108 8d ago
Cameraman discovered that autofocus and being close to a fence don't match up
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u/Bussin1648 8d ago
So many comments going on about the quality of the video. This is a real video, caught in real time in response to something wild happening. Nothing wrong with a camera man, the problem is too many people are getting used to created content that they think is real life. We complain about spontaneous actual footage of interesting things because we're comparing them to people who set up scenarios with a script, lighting, sound, makeup and any number of retakes and edits.
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u/Humble_Bumble_Me 8d ago
Seriously. The woman was clearly worried about what was going to happen. Capturing an accident in real time is not something you can practice.
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u/Illsquad 8d ago
This is so true, people watch funny kitchen Accidents accidentally captured from two different angles
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u/NoAdsDude 8d ago
You can be close to the fence, but you have to be SO CLOSE that your camera is looking through the fence...
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u/V7buster 8d ago
Camera man was busy watching with his eyes while the camera was just pointed in the direction.
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u/TheAsianSam 8d ago
The cameraman tried their best.
Its 2026 with AI everywhere yet the phone is not smart enough to focus on the thing that matter. 80% chance that auto focus always focused on the wrong thing at first, and manual tap is required but it also has 80% chance to fail.
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u/smthomaspatel 8d ago
Manual tap with a chain link or some kind of net in the foreground is a fools errand.
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u/HTPC4Life 8d ago
Yes, manual tap so it focuses RIGHT on the fence. Been there, done that.
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u/xenobit_pendragon 8d ago
My favorite is when I’m trying to take a picture of something and one of my kids wanders by in the background and my phone decides that obviously the human is the subject. No amount of tapping on the actual thing matters at all.
Phone is like YOU WILL TAKE A PHOTO OF THE HUMAN SO HELP ME GOD.
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u/unicodemonkey 8d ago
My Sony camera has a setting to recognize and focus either people's faces or animals (or just do regular auto/manual focus, that's still an option, of course), and I've ruined quite a number of shots by forgetting to switch off the cat mode.
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u/Bagafeet 8d ago
They needed to push the lens closer to the whole in the fens or use tap to focus it something. I get in the moment you're paying more attention to the homicidal driver going the wrong way
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u/EAGLeyes09 8d ago
That still doesn’t work with iphone. It’ll just switch to Macro. You’ll need to get the physical camera lenses inside the little diamond gaps to completely miss the fence. I hate iphone camera in that regard.
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u/zmileshigh 8d ago
What? The camera and sensors on an iPhone are small enough that they could fit entirely in one of the holes in the chain link. That’s what the camera person needed to do here
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u/EAGLeyes09 8d ago
Yes, that’s what I’m saying as well.
Unfortunately that’s not going to happen in a fast, fluid situation like this. Camera man probably tried tapping the screen first to focus.
iphone doesn’t make it easy to tap on a certain object in motion and have the focus shift to it. I miss my Android phone in that regard.
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u/idiosyncratic190 7d ago
Rare instance that I don’t blame the cameraman. More like r/killthecamera. My phone sometimes refuses to focus on the right thing even when trying to manually focus.
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u/keraut 8d ago
And of course someone driving without paying attention to the road to brake, pull off or go around them. Just collides like they were drawn in like a UFO picking up cattle from a field.
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u/Silencer306 8d ago
Yea its like they weren’t even watching
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u/IntergalacticPodcast 8d ago edited 8d ago
They don't even apply their brakes. The highway was wide open and this should have been easy to avoid (at least with the same intensity)
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u/Electromotivation 8d ago
I feel like you don’t really know how fast something comes up on you at highway speed. They probably had a second to a second and half to correct
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u/Rainebowraine123 8d ago
The person driving the correct way could've seen them for well over 10 seconds. It's not like this guy just teleported onto the highway. You should always be looking well ahead of where you are when driving so nothing like this surprises you.
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u/IntergalacticPodcast 8d ago
And they did not even attempt to correct with that second.
and I count 3 seconds.
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u/ManKilledToDeath 8d ago
I'll never understand defending awful driving. Sunny day, wide open highway, minimal traffic, but there was nothing they could have done lol
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u/DazB1ane 8d ago
While driving, you should be looking further ahead in the road than just one or two cars ahead
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u/Kharenis 8d ago
You realise you're supposed to be looking ahead right? And not just at the road immediately in front of your car?
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u/pickledpeterpiper 8d ago
This seems to be coming up on Reddit frequently lately, right? There's a car directly where you're planning on being in five seconds, you'd think you'd move over to the other side of the freeway...
Same deal with cars that have just come to a stop...someone is going to hit them at full speed....It'll be the collision itself that alerts the other driver that there was a car directly in their line of sight and I can't imagine how that's a thing.
It begs the question as to just how many of us are completely checked the fuck out while driving...I feel like my eyes are always up ahead, on the horizon and it'd be hard to miss, but apparently its more like a beacon to some people.
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u/LessRespects 8d ago
Redditors don’t drive. You’d know this if you read dashcam or roadrage subs comments. Never give any integrity to comments on car accident videos, just read it for a laugh lol
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u/1200____1200 8d ago
The reverser also drifts into their lane. While they look like they weren't paying attention, they didn't have a lot of time to process what they were seeing and plot an avoidance route
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u/AtmosphereMiddle1682 8d ago
You're acting like they're required to plan the invasion of Stalingrad. Slow down, and move right. They either didn't see them at all since they weren't paying attention, or they panicked and froze.
In my view if you do either, you shouldn't hold a license.
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u/sora_mui 8d ago
If you see something weird going on, you slow down to assess whether your path is safe or not. How hard is it to understand?
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u/Happiest-Soul 6d ago
Perspective is a bitch and I never want to be put into a situation where I have to try my luck in this situation, especially as an older person.
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u/Pistolfist 8d ago
I feel like the car they collided with could have done a little bit more to avoid the collision. Not trying to take blame off the person who is very obviously at fault here but like, the white car made zero attempt to avoid this.
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u/Opening-Ant3477 8d ago
When a car is going backwards on the highway like that it is almost impossible to correctly judge the distance. Most of the time you don't even notice that they are going backwards until it is too late.
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u/N0rthWind 8d ago
This. I don't think most people are as ready as they claim for the car in front of them to DECREASE distance while still being the right-way-forward. It would definitely take you a few moments to even realize what's going on.
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u/Technical_Stand9939 8d ago
100%- how many times have you narrowly avoided hitting a car that was legit stopped due to traffic. Never had that accident myself, but it feels like once per year i have to slam the breaks to avoid that happening (likely a lot less, but not that rare of a thing).
If any of those near misses were going backwards even slightly, I am not stopping in time.
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u/liccman 8d ago
I’ve personally narrowly avoided hitting a car like that only to be hit by the guy behind me lol
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u/DazB1ane 8d ago
Exactly what happened to me last year. There was a building fire on the side of the road and people stopped to rubberneck. I managed to brake in time because I had plenty of space, but the car behind me didn’t. Found out while making sure everyone was okay that they were on their way to a funeral. Felt a little bad for them
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u/quanate 8d ago
I have (somehow) known two different people who this has happened to, running into someone reversing on the freeway. Going 60+ mph on a wide open freeway, you just aren't consciously looking for someone who is stopped or reversing because we can't be prepared for every single individual thing that can go wrong. Both have life long injuries.
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u/Kimpak 8d ago
At the worst it would have looked like the reversing car was stopped. I don't know about you but that would trip all sorts of red flags for me when I'm driving and would have slowed down and kept my eyes open to avoid.
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u/jd1323 8d ago
Yes "looks stopped" but is actually accelerating backwards making it very hard to accurately judge the distance and safely stop.
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u/moldiewart 8d ago
oh yeah the difference between a car that looks stopped and is moving backwards at like 5mph huge difference
bruh if I see some shit wrong on the freeway I am braking immediately and moving to the furthest lane I can
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u/Kharenis 8d ago
Right? Them moving backwards at 10mph is virtually the same perspective-wise as you going an extra 10mph with them being stationary. Either way it should be abundantly obvious that there is a significant speed difference between you and them and you should slow the fuck down.
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u/lonelynightm 8d ago
I'm losing my mind at the Monday Morning Quarterbacks shitting on the person who if we are being generous would have had 3 seconds max to react.
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u/dmigowski 8d ago
Did you notice the backwards going car even changed lanes? How the fuck should the white car anticipate this? Did you ever drive a highway in non-US, were each lane isn't 3m wide?
When breaking a car at those speeds you easily have 150 meters distance to come to a full halt. Or did you expect him to change 2 lanes at once and risk even more lives of others.
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u/Pistolfist 8d ago
Literally never driven on a US road in my life, weird assumption to make that everyone on the internet is an American.
The white car didn't even panic swerve at the last minute, they absolutely were not paying attention.
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u/linlovesthenight 8d ago
Yes it’s blurry, but it shows the entire incident. I am neutral on cameraman’s abilities.
Also what was the driver even trying to do???
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u/Star_Petal_Arts 8d ago
Missed the exit, so went in reverse to go back one exit.
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u/M1ck3yB1u 8d ago
Redditors have found footage brain rot, expecting the same production values from actual found footage.
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u/KinNortheast 8d ago
Argentina shirts and an Argentina flag? My guess is that the car wanted to reverse and get a picture of the Argentina display on the over-pass. And that’s probably why they’re filming
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u/flyguy60000 8d ago
DUI? Suicide attempt? Why would you possibly do this. I don’t even see a missed exit. Just insane.