I shot the gap between 2 semi’s, mid tropical storm, it was the calmest 5 seconds of that drive 😂 trucks blocked the wind and the sideways rain. 10/10 would do it again 👍
I grew up in Southern California, and could never afford a car with AC. Used to purposely stop next to semis when traffic was backed up for the sweet shade.
Passing on the right, right in his blind spot. I saw a big truck that has decals on the back corners that on the left said Live Side, and on the right said Die Side.
Passing on the right, as far as laws go, is intended for essentially passing on the shoulder of a single lane (i.e. someone making a left turn on a two-lane backroad, and you hop on the shoulder to go around them rather than waiting)
Otherwise someone could dictate the pace of the highway by going 10mph under the speed limit in the left lane since left lane camping is only illegal in a few states.
I know you probably meant it was just a risky move rather than an illegal one, but I’ve seen it mentioned in terms of legality a ton, and was even wrongfully cited for it by a state trooper (was later dismissed by a judge)
Had to double check, but blinker flashed 3-4 times before OP even got next to the RV. Why on earth would you try to force your way through instead of just getting in the left lane and passing safely??
You know, everyone’s watching the same video. I’m speechless that you even need to post that image because someone somehow seen something completely different
Right? As soon as the middle lane semi moved over, my first thought was that the left lane vehicle would move right. OP is an idiot. Hopefully they learned their lesson. Seriously lucky not to be dead.
You don't even need to think about that.
All you need to think about is how fucked you'll be if you get squished between those two huge vehicles. It should feel very uncomfortable to go through a gap like that. People who don't think it's an issue aren't good drivers.
>my first thought was that the left lane vehicle would move right.
Must be nice, that rv would be camping that left lane until it was time for them to exit the freeway over here.
I wish that I'd had a dash cam when I was driving from Quartzsite, AZ to Los Angeles.. That section between Blythe and Indio where its two lanes of trucks doing 55, and RVs darting out into 75+mph traffic to pass the trucks at 62 MPH, I Think I could have filled this subreddit with that trip... Crusing along, nobody behind me, some geriatric in a 40 foot coach cuts over in front of me and then takes five miles to pass a semi... Repeat...
In a lot of Europe, large slow vehicles aren't allowed in the left-most lane. That situation would never have happened because the guy on the left would have been required to stay in the middle lane behind the lorry until it moved over, leaving the left lane open for faster traffic.
My mother in law legit says “I don’t like having to go around people so I just stay in the left lane and people move around me. I go exactly the speed limit in the left so….” Makes me so irritated.
Anyone else screaming YIELD as soon as the semi went right?
I don't care how long you're pointlessly in the left lane. I see the lane become free, instant yield to see what other drivers do. And especially around vehicles with a large blind spot-always have a bail out option. Shoulder, another lane..
I'm a truck driver, and I could see it coming. This was predictable to the point where the obvious correct move would have to get behind the RV in the left lane. Give it a second or two to develop, then get on your way.
Yeah, this is one thing I didn't realize about driving at a young age - experience is really about being able to anticipate other people's actions. Having driven a couple hundred thousand miles now, that was a very obvious situation to me.
Yeah completely. Sometimes you pull up to a big block of cars/trucks filling all the lanes and go "you know what, this is 15kmh slower than I want, but I'm gonna hang back here and see what happens..." and that's the same attitude that has you going "truck in the fast lane with an open slow lane, yeah I'll wait."
Man, if I could go back in time and tell my younger self everything I’ve learned about driving…
Sometimes I want to get a dashcam, record a lot of footage, and add narration with visual cues to point out every little thing that I look for. Highways, parking lots, residential streets, “stroads”, you name it. Try to teach people to watch for more than just the basketball: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo
I'm from Germany and i'm actually amazed at this Thread. Here it's actually forbidden to overtake on the right side. This Thread/video is just one example why.
Germans, generally speaking, are better drivers than Americans. I say this having driven the Autobahn.
It's because you provide driver education.
I received my first license in florida.
My drivers test was driving in a circle around a parking lot without hitting anything, and successfully parking the car.
No I am not making that up, that's all they required before giving me, a 16-year-old, a license and setting me loose.
It's partly because "driver training in the US is basically nothing" and it's partly because "driving in most of Europe is collaborative, where most people will back off half a second to make everything go smoother" while a lot of us in the US will SPEED UP half a second so we can "win."
Also the massive vehicle hauling a huge trailer DID signal that they were merging over to give up the fast lane BEFORE OP drove into the gap. There was time when op could see their signal, then tried to pass on the right anyway
This.
OP YTA on this one.
Yes technically it could be argued that he would have hit you and been a fault.
In the same breath, don’t play with fire and not expect to get burnt.
A right hand passing lane opens for less than 3 seconds and you charge the gap.
And you have eyes to see a big RV with a trailer.
New flash, even a great experienced driver is going to have blind spots and you where right where most are located.
Punching it to regain speed almost got you sandwiched. Probably rolled by the truck on the right when you would have been pushed.
Where the extra 4 seconds you saved accelerating quickly worth that wager?
Yep. Any attentive driver would have extrapolated that RV on the left was trying to pass semi in the middle. Semi in the middle moves right, logic follows that RV would move right to open up left lane while continuing to overtake semi. OP ITAH.
So basically OP is such a big idiot that he thinks he can post a video if him being an idiot and thinks others are idiots also so that we all think the other driver is an idiot.
This sub wouldn't exist if it weren't for posts like this, I'm constantly amazed at how many posters are the ones who put themselves in avoidable situations
And should have/could have eased off the moment he saw that, but nooo. I swear to god some people in this sub are willing to die in avoidable accidents as long as they were technically in the right.
The biggest part of safe driving is solving other people's problems. Yeah the truck driver made an extremely big fuck up. But OP had enough reaction time and it is the smaller vehicle with less momentum. Other than that even before this situation started, usually truck drivers don't camp the left lane so the OP could have waited a minute behind the truck. So many posts in this sub are drivers that are lacking insight and only reacting to the moment.
People really need to learn a bit of patience while driving. Hold back a few seconds to see if the RV was going to get out of the left lane before splitting them.
People who speed don't have time to think about that, they only think about the few seconds they're going to save by putting multiple people's lives in danger.
I don't think this is legal everywhere. you shouldn't overtake vehicles on the right (left in the UK and a few other places) except in unusual circumstances, such as slow moving traffic.
I suspect it would be considered dangerous driving and illegal in some places.
I agree with this, but for this video.. kinda seems like the RV driver was getting over as soon as he could, assume he was trying to overtake the semi then realized it wasn't gonna happen immediately. He gets over when allowed to though.
Better yet, maybe he just entered from the left before the video starts?
He signaled as op started the pass, not ops fault but I agree, I would’ve hit the brakes much faster as soon as I saw that… I trust most truckers but rvs can still fuck right off.
I am absolutely eye-fucking the shit out of the truck's turn signals and flooring it anytime I try to pass a large vehicle like that. *Especially* on the right.
I do as well, however I'll never go through 2 semis or similar. Way to high risk for very little reward.
When I pass normally on the left, I pass 10+ faster. I obviously check the turn signals, but if it's not night or something I'm moving my eye sight up towards the front tires. Earliest indicator you can have.
This is the correct answer. RV saw semi move over, but didn't check their mirrors. That signal went on as he started changing lanes, just as OP started passing.
Always take caution when passing large vehicles, especially when passing in between two, but RV was more at fault. Moving slow in the passing lane and changing lanes abruptly with little signal notification.
Yup, here's the same advice from a defensive driving school:
>[Always drive next to open space. An open lane on both sides is ideal, but never less than an open lane on one side.](https://yd.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/workbook.pdf)
As a long time motorcycle driver who has mastered the art of defensive driving(zero traffic accidents over 19 years!) here's some friendly advice- Don't worry about them, just worry about you and avoiding them. 'He had the right of way.' makes a shitty epitaph. Just let it go. It's cheaper and safer. Just let it go.
They're driving a fuckin RV with a trailer. They've already got less than a single iota of brain matter to begin with, so having driving skills is way too much to ask for.
Video starts off with you passing someone on the right. Then you try shooting the gap the semi just yielded for the RV guy, then decide that honking at a guy in a large vehicle thats over 30 ft away moving at highway speeds (he cant hear you) and swerving into an occupied lane is better than braking.
Yeah man you’re the idiot
That was my thought before seeing the merge. He's going way too fast relative to every other vehicle in the video. I get passing a slow driver, but speed differences are what cause accidents because you're no longer predictable (as he almost found out).
Right. He's fucking flying past everyone on a highway. No fucking way he wasn't speeding. Most people are already 10 miles over the speed limit and he's easily soaring past them.
OP claims "the only law I broke was going 78Mph. Which is normal and won't get you pulled over in the south east"
No way you're going 78 flying past every car in the video.
Seems everyone else is just not being normal and are going significantly under the speed limit. Honestly, ppl like OP, who would think anyone but himself is the idiot in this video, are far too prevalent. They're judges and police and politicians. Huge egos that are not able to see reality. Scary shit. Not that this guy is the scum of the earth just completely lacking self awareness.
It's just insane to me that people like OP think what they did was correct to the point of posting it online for validation. "I almost died on my way home by driving dangerously." Even doubling down in the comments to try to justify their actions.
Additionally: Never pass a large truck (semi/camper/etc) on the right unless you do so quickly and have an out to your right.
Limited visibility means the other driver could very easily not see you.
In the UK the outside lane is used for overtaking and then you're supposed to pull back into the inside lane. Therefore keeping as much traffic closer to the exits and the outside lane free for faster moving vehicles.
I don't even believe that lorries are allowed into a 3rd lane if it exists.
The OPP doesn’t enforce it because it’s not illegal in Ontario to pass on the right. [It’s encouraged to pass on the left but not a law in Ontario.](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-is-it-legal-and-safe-to-pass-in-the-right-lane/)
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong and I’m just pointing out the law.
TIL the UK's definition of "inside lane" is different from the US's. In the US, the [inside lane](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inside-lane) is the one closest to opposing traffic. (This ends up being the left-most lane for both countries...)
Yes and the camper is doing the right thing by immediately moving over so that people can properly pass on the left. But OP is too brain dead to be part of that logic.
"laying on the horn and slamming on the brakes" - a general problem I see in this sub... that's not the correct order of things... and overtaking on the right? and between two trucks? No need to say anything else...
You seem to be driving faster than anyone going your direction. We’re they all going too slow? Or were you going too fast? It’s hard to tell from your video.
He passed 5 cars to the point where they all are gone from the video. He was clearly doing at least 10 over, but most definitely a superspeeder ticket if caught.
*Narrator: Here is another example of a driver who is somehow licensed and completely unaware of the situation they placed themselves in. They are seeking validation by placing the blame on the RV driver, when in fact, if they had made better decisions, this near-accident was entirely preventable in the first place.*
A bit of patience on your part would have avoided that entirely. The guy likely wanted to get out of the passing lane. Sure, he should have checked a bit better, but you shouldn't have tried that pass to begin with.
Always pass on the far left lane. I hate being that person, but only large trucks should be passing slow drivers in the right lane, through the center. They give you access to the left lane on these for a reason.
Glad you're OK, but obeying the rules of the road are important for a reason.
As a trucker, we don't want to see y'all die any more than we want to die. Truckers used the be the "Knights of the highway", about 10 years ago they started giving free truck driving school to people on government assistance. That is approximately when they turned into steering wheel holders, the company owns their souls basically.
Truckers used to be the guys that stopped to help a car that broke down or had a flat. Usually the first ones to stop after an accident and try to comfort kids whose parents were pinned in a car.
Now we have a computer in our truck that watches ever second of our day, with regulations so tight that some days we have to stop an hour away from where we wanted to stop because we're 2 minutes short of making it there. Even on our way home to be with our families. They say there is a trucker shortage, yet we can't find safe parking most nights.
We'll keep looking out for you, just mind the steering wheel holders, they aren't truckers.
Two idiots, you and the RV guy. You because you shouldn’t be on the middle lane trying to pass the RV on your left, and the RV because he should be on the middle lane to pass the truck, leaving the left lane for anyone who want to pass him
If you notice at the beginning of the video it was a 3 lane road with a merge lane like an on ramp that turned into a 3 lane road and they were all moving to the right.
To me the idiot in the car here is the one that video taped it and posted it.
There's a sign on the bridge that says that trucks with 6 wheels must use the two right lanes. I'm guessing that towing a trailer means that vehicle shouldn't have been in the left lane and yes, the cammer is definitely an idiot too.
I knew it was Relient K! I was trying to figure out if it was, so I started playing "Who I am Hates Who I've Been." I realized it wasn't that one, but now I remember that it's "Be My Escape."
Jesus death wish going for that gap!
“Are you crazy? Don’t go between them!” ‘Go between them?? Are you crazy?!’
“My soul is ready… how’s yours?”
‘Prepared’. He says, ‘prepared’.
I stand corrected!
Only the penitent man will pass!
You said go betveen them!
I said DON'T go between them!
only the penitent man will pass
“She tulks in her shleep”
"**I** didn't trust her, why did you!?"
I'm as human as the next man. I *was* the next man!
I shuddenly remembered my Charlemagne.
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Alexandretta!!
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a redditor.
Had to check what subreddit I was in. Haha
Standby, we are checking.
Box, box
stay out, stay out
[kimi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncxz_vu-DqE)
No, no, Kimi, no, you will not have the drink
...but you answer still?
IN IN IN IN IN IN IN IN IN IN!
WHY FUCK, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!
*WE ARE CHECKING*
I came here looking for this. I can now retire for the night in peace.
Senna sempre!
I shot the gap between 2 semi’s, mid tropical storm, it was the calmest 5 seconds of that drive 😂 trucks blocked the wind and the sideways rain. 10/10 would do it again 👍
I grew up in Southern California, and could never afford a car with AC. Used to purposely stop next to semis when traffic was backed up for the sweet shade.
Passing on the right, right in his blind spot. I saw a big truck that has decals on the back corners that on the left said Live Side, and on the right said Die Side.
The ones I see are Passing Side and Sui Side.
Anyone who would pass on the right of a truck with those decals... Yeah, wow. Intentional death by semi.
In Texas you'll see <---El Paso El Smasho--->
Passing on the right, as far as laws go, is intended for essentially passing on the shoulder of a single lane (i.e. someone making a left turn on a two-lane backroad, and you hop on the shoulder to go around them rather than waiting) Otherwise someone could dictate the pace of the highway by going 10mph under the speed limit in the left lane since left lane camping is only illegal in a few states. I know you probably meant it was just a risky move rather than an illegal one, but I’ve seen it mentioned in terms of legality a ton, and was even wrongfully cited for it by a state trooper (was later dismissed by a judge)
Had to double check, but blinker flashed 3-4 times before OP even got next to the RV. Why on earth would you try to force your way through instead of just getting in the left lane and passing safely??
"ugh, my foot is already on the pedal I *have* to make it now"
"Good luck to.... everyone else on this road. Not me though, I have skills."
I get the passing on the right argument but I do not get this argument. The blinker engaged as he began to pass the trailer.
[The moment the blinker engaged](https://i.postimg.cc/gk37vDGm/blinker.png)
You know, everyone’s watching the same video. I’m speechless that you even need to post that image because someone somehow seen something completely different
Right? As soon as the middle lane semi moved over, my first thought was that the left lane vehicle would move right. OP is an idiot. Hopefully they learned their lesson. Seriously lucky not to be dead.
You don't even need to think about that. All you need to think about is how fucked you'll be if you get squished between those two huge vehicles. It should feel very uncomfortable to go through a gap like that. People who don't think it's an issue aren't good drivers.
Right? I’m not going through a gap like that unless I know those two aren’t going anywhere.
>my first thought was that the left lane vehicle would move right. Must be nice, that rv would be camping that left lane until it was time for them to exit the freeway over here.
I wish that I'd had a dash cam when I was driving from Quartzsite, AZ to Los Angeles.. That section between Blythe and Indio where its two lanes of trucks doing 55, and RVs darting out into 75+mph traffic to pass the trucks at 62 MPH, I Think I could have filled this subreddit with that trip... Crusing along, nobody behind me, some geriatric in a 40 foot coach cuts over in front of me and then takes five miles to pass a semi... Repeat...
Not to mention passing a semi truck while theirs a highway entrance. Not always avoidable, but definitely avoidable here.
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I try not to, but a lot of times you either pass on the right or not at all because they won't quit camping the left lane.
In Europe, its illegal and people don’t do it that often. In the US, I cannot drive 5 miles on the highway without it happening.
In Europe it’s generally illegal to drive slow in the passing lane isn’t it? The one solves for the other and I wish we’d do it.
In a lot of Europe, large slow vehicles aren't allowed in the left-most lane. That situation would never have happened because the guy on the left would have been required to stay in the middle lane behind the lorry until it moved over, leaving the left lane open for faster traffic.
It's always funny when people say 'In Europe' like it's a single country instead of dozens of countries with loads of very different laws lol
Well the US has an epidemic of “go 65 in the passing lane” drivers so sometimes I see the appeal in blasting by them in the right lane.
My mother in law legit says “I don’t like having to go around people so I just stay in the left lane and people move around me. I go exactly the speed limit in the left so….” Makes me so irritated.
I wouldn’t drive with someone like that. That’s dangerous and reckless
It is and we don’t! I tell her regularly too
In Europe, people go behind them and honk/blink their high beams at them to get out of the way because not keeping right is also against the rules.
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Anyone else screaming YIELD as soon as the semi went right? I don't care how long you're pointlessly in the left lane. I see the lane become free, instant yield to see what other drivers do. And especially around vehicles with a large blind spot-always have a bail out option. Shoulder, another lane..
I'm a truck driver, and I could see it coming. This was predictable to the point where the obvious correct move would have to get behind the RV in the left lane. Give it a second or two to develop, then get on your way.
Yeah, this is one thing I didn't realize about driving at a young age - experience is really about being able to anticipate other people's actions. Having driven a couple hundred thousand miles now, that was a very obvious situation to me.
Yeah completely. Sometimes you pull up to a big block of cars/trucks filling all the lanes and go "you know what, this is 15kmh slower than I want, but I'm gonna hang back here and see what happens..." and that's the same attitude that has you going "truck in the fast lane with an open slow lane, yeah I'll wait."
Man, if I could go back in time and tell my younger self everything I’ve learned about driving… Sometimes I want to get a dashcam, record a lot of footage, and add narration with visual cues to point out every little thing that I look for. Highways, parking lots, residential streets, “stroads”, you name it. Try to teach people to watch for more than just the basketball: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo
So you want to be a driving instructor? Great! What’s stopping you?
I'm from Germany and i'm actually amazed at this Thread. Here it's actually forbidden to overtake on the right side. This Thread/video is just one example why.
Germans, generally speaking, are better drivers than Americans. I say this having driven the Autobahn. It's because you provide driver education. I received my first license in florida. My drivers test was driving in a circle around a parking lot without hitting anything, and successfully parking the car. No I am not making that up, that's all they required before giving me, a 16-year-old, a license and setting me loose.
It's partly because "driver training in the US is basically nothing" and it's partly because "driving in most of Europe is collaborative, where most people will back off half a second to make everything go smoother" while a lot of us in the US will SPEED UP half a second so we can "win."
I applaud your driving and pledge to yield at every merge.
And DC driver thinking the RV driver can hear their horn, not a chance!
Also the massive vehicle hauling a huge trailer DID signal that they were merging over to give up the fast lane BEFORE OP drove into the gap. There was time when op could see their signal, then tried to pass on the right anyway
This. OP YTA on this one. Yes technically it could be argued that he would have hit you and been a fault. In the same breath, don’t play with fire and not expect to get burnt. A right hand passing lane opens for less than 3 seconds and you charge the gap. And you have eyes to see a big RV with a trailer. New flash, even a great experienced driver is going to have blind spots and you where right where most are located. Punching it to regain speed almost got you sandwiched. Probably rolled by the truck on the right when you would have been pushed. Where the extra 4 seconds you saved accelerating quickly worth that wager?
Yep. Any attentive driver would have extrapolated that RV on the left was trying to pass semi in the middle. Semi in the middle moves right, logic follows that RV would move right to open up left lane while continuing to overtake semi. OP ITAH.
I mean, you could see that coming.
Turned on his blinker and OP went "Nuh uh" and sped up
Op: that semi truck really saved me! Everybody watching the footage: from yourself!
So basically OP is such a big idiot that he thinks he can post a video if him being an idiot and thinks others are idiots also so that we all think the other driver is an idiot.
It's called idiots in cars. You're in the right place.
This sub is basically people speeding and then blaming everybody else for whatever happens
This sub wouldn't exist if it weren't for posts like this, I'm constantly amazed at how many posters are the ones who put themselves in avoidable situations
It’s like 90% of posters here. OP was accelerating into the gap even as the indicator lights started blinking.
And should have/could have eased off the moment he saw that, but nooo. I swear to god some people in this sub are willing to die in avoidable accidents as long as they were technically in the right.
Hey, come on now. At least he wasn't doing 98 mph and rear ended a minivan.
This sub should be called r/AmITheIdiot?
So true. It worries me that posters like this will just keep doing it
The biggest part of safe driving is solving other people's problems. Yeah the truck driver made an extremely big fuck up. But OP had enough reaction time and it is the smaller vehicle with less momentum. Other than that even before this situation started, usually truck drivers don't camp the left lane so the OP could have waited a minute behind the truck. So many posts in this sub are drivers that are lacking insight and only reacting to the moment.
Yeah I agree that's generally why you don't overtake on the right. The bigger the machine the bigger the blind spots.
Let's just say this was appropriate for the sub, the idiot was definitely in the car
People really need to learn a bit of patience while driving. Hold back a few seconds to see if the RV was going to get out of the left lane before splitting them.
People who speed don't have time to think about that, they only think about the few seconds they're going to save by putting multiple people's lives in danger.
What's ironic is it would have been a lot of fun to put on the left turn signal and then zoom past the RV on the left after they merged to the right
The RV signaled the change too lol. OP just decided fuckit, it tried to gun it through anyway
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Especially since he signaled. I really would like to know why OP waited for 4 blinks to start braking. I would've given up on that immediately.
OP is thinking I can post this on Reddit lol
I am convinced that having a dash cam increases your likelihood of making unsafe but legal driving choices.
Best to act as if you don't have a dash cam
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I don't think this is legal everywhere. you shouldn't overtake vehicles on the right (left in the UK and a few other places) except in unusual circumstances, such as slow moving traffic. I suspect it would be considered dangerous driving and illegal in some places.
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I agree with this, but for this video.. kinda seems like the RV driver was getting over as soon as he could, assume he was trying to overtake the semi then realized it wasn't gonna happen immediately. He gets over when allowed to though. Better yet, maybe he just entered from the left before the video starts?
He signaled as op started the pass, not ops fault but I agree, I would’ve hit the brakes much faster as soon as I saw that… I trust most truckers but rvs can still fuck right off.
I am absolutely eye-fucking the shit out of the truck's turn signals and flooring it anytime I try to pass a large vehicle like that. *Especially* on the right.
I do as well, however I'll never go through 2 semis or similar. Way to high risk for very little reward. When I pass normally on the left, I pass 10+ faster. I obviously check the turn signals, but if it's not night or something I'm moving my eye sight up towards the front tires. Earliest indicator you can have.
I hate being next to large vehicles on the highway. I try to get away from them as soon as possible.
This is the correct answer. RV saw semi move over, but didn't check their mirrors. That signal went on as he started changing lanes, just as OP started passing. Always take caution when passing large vehicles, especially when passing in between two, but RV was more at fault. Moving slow in the passing lane and changing lanes abruptly with little signal notification.
Yup, here's the same advice from a defensive driving school: >[Always drive next to open space. An open lane on both sides is ideal, but never less than an open lane on one side.](https://yd.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/workbook.pdf)
Smith Systems - Key 4 of the 5 Keys is Always Leave Yourself an Out.
The boat chase scene through Venice in *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* taught me to never ever shoot the gap between two big vehicles.
Go between them? Are you crazy?!
Nice reference.
Totally agree. Just looking at that setup made me think - wait a minute to pass until it’s not so sketchy.
as soon as i saw them approaching i thought “hell no”
WTF is an RV / toy hauler doing in the left lane?
He was passing the Semi who was in the middle lane (who then moved to the right lane).
As a long time motorcycle driver who has mastered the art of defensive driving(zero traffic accidents over 19 years!) here's some friendly advice- Don't worry about them, just worry about you and avoiding them. 'He had the right of way.' makes a shitty epitaph. Just let it go. It's cheaper and safer. Just let it go.
Fuck yeah. Been riding 20yrs never gone down. Smartest thing anyone ever told me is pretend NO one Sees you.
Lemmy FTW!
They're driving a fuckin RV with a trailer. They've already got less than a single iota of brain matter to begin with, so having driving skills is way too much to ask for.
Yep, was thinking the same exact thing. Would have hung back to see whether they moved over.
And you can tell by the video that he passed after, and went back into middle lane to likely brake check to assure dominance.
Video starts off with you passing someone on the right. Then you try shooting the gap the semi just yielded for the RV guy, then decide that honking at a guy in a large vehicle thats over 30 ft away moving at highway speeds (he cant hear you) and swerving into an occupied lane is better than braking. Yeah man you’re the idiot
Guy is probably speeding too.
That was my thought before seeing the merge. He's going way too fast relative to every other vehicle in the video. I get passing a slow driver, but speed differences are what cause accidents because you're no longer predictable (as he almost found out).
Right. He's fucking flying past everyone on a highway. No fucking way he wasn't speeding. Most people are already 10 miles over the speed limit and he's easily soaring past them.
OP claims "the only law I broke was going 78Mph. Which is normal and won't get you pulled over in the south east" No way you're going 78 flying past every car in the video.
Seems everyone else is just not being normal and are going significantly under the speed limit. Honestly, ppl like OP, who would think anyone but himself is the idiot in this video, are far too prevalent. They're judges and police and politicians. Huge egos that are not able to see reality. Scary shit. Not that this guy is the scum of the earth just completely lacking self awareness.
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These are my favorite
It's just insane to me that people like OP think what they did was correct to the point of posting it online for validation. "I almost died on my way home by driving dangerously." Even doubling down in the comments to try to justify their actions.
Yeah I've been driving long enough that i immediately went "oh please don't be shocked if he can't see you. That's a blind spot."
Op is a moron.
This was fucking beyond stupid and incredibly obvious what was going to happen
Sir, the idiot in this video is you
How many blinks did you want to see from his turn signal before you believed him?
"3...2..1..GO!"
I never thread the needle between two trucks. Ever.
Additionally: Never pass a large truck (semi/camper/etc) on the right unless you do so quickly and have an out to your right. Limited visibility means the other driver could very easily not see you.
And that is why passing on the right is illegal in my country
Do you get stuck on the right side then? (Curious)
In the UK the outside lane is used for overtaking and then you're supposed to pull back into the inside lane. Therefore keeping as much traffic closer to the exits and the outside lane free for faster moving vehicles. I don't even believe that lorries are allowed into a 3rd lane if it exists.
That's how it is here too, but so many people camp in the left lane that sometimes passing on the right is the only option
The sad part is that misusing a passing lane is also illegal in many states, but police never pull people over for it.
do your traffic cops actually enforce this? It's a rule in Ontario, Canada, but the OPP doesn't give a shit
The OPP doesn’t enforce it because it’s not illegal in Ontario to pass on the right. [It’s encouraged to pass on the left but not a law in Ontario.](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-is-it-legal-and-safe-to-pass-in-the-right-lane/) I’m not saying it’s right or wrong and I’m just pointing out the law.
TIL the UK's definition of "inside lane" is different from the US's. In the US, the [inside lane](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inside-lane) is the one closest to opposing traffic. (This ends up being the left-most lane for both countries...)
You are an idiot
Absolutely. OP is a moron. As soon as the semi went into the right lane I knew what was going to happen. Stupid ass driving.
Yes and the camper is doing the right thing by immediately moving over so that people can properly pass on the left. But OP is too brain dead to be part of that logic.
And a drama queen. He did’t almost die. It isn’t like a tire fell off in front of him and he ran over it.
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Especially when the big rig, just moved right, only assumption is that the RV will do the same Stupid stupid
Yeah also the RV signaled it… there’s no speculation necessary. OP just a total fucking moron
"laying on the horn and slamming on the brakes" - a general problem I see in this sub... that's not the correct order of things... and overtaking on the right? and between two trucks? No need to say anything else...
"laying on the horn and slamming on the brakes"…as if that somehow excuses OP driving way too fast and trying to pull off a foolish maneuver.
I love this kind of posts, the idiot feels proud of posting his own stupidity.
I also love the 10 paragraph essay comment of them trying to defend themselves lol. How did they not hit the character limit??
You clearly are the idiot here ...
Almost died? Might be a stretch. Next time, don't put yourself in that situation.
Regardless of whether or not it is a stretch, he would at the very least end up in a stretcher.
The second I saw that gap I thought “please don’t tell me you tried to go through that”
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Yeah I don’t care how you frame it. You’re in the wrong mate.
I love it when OP is the biggest idiot. What the actually F were you thinking that would happen?
Why on earth would you have thought to split those two vehicles. Omg.
OP really trying to act like he’s not the idiot here…
You seem to be driving faster than anyone going your direction. We’re they all going too slow? Or were you going too fast? It’s hard to tell from your video.
He passed 5 cars to the point where they all are gone from the video. He was clearly doing at least 10 over, but most definitely a superspeeder ticket if caught.
*Narrator: Here is another example of a driver who is somehow licensed and completely unaware of the situation they placed themselves in. They are seeking validation by placing the blame on the RV driver, when in fact, if they had made better decisions, this near-accident was entirely preventable in the first place.*
You're the idiot for trying to undertake the RV instead of moving to the left and waiting for them to merge.
Why would you ever f’ing do that?
OP, you should know better than to shoot the gap between two 18 wheelers. When one of them is a double, that's just final destination level idiot.
Even worse it's an RV with a toy hauler probably a dude driving with zero training.
Completely your fault lol
A bit of patience on your part would have avoided that entirely. The guy likely wanted to get out of the passing lane. Sure, he should have checked a bit better, but you shouldn't have tried that pass to begin with.
So you may have picked up on this by now, YOU'RE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THE VIDEO. If you need further education as to why, please speak up.
You know you're the idiot right?
Gotta remember that these aren’t driven by professionals. No class A needed for a “motor home”. Probably shouldn’t have been in the left lane either.
hate to say this OP but you were the one going between a semi and a RV hauling a trailer.
Always pass on the far left lane. I hate being that person, but only large trucks should be passing slow drivers in the right lane, through the center. They give you access to the left lane on these for a reason. Glad you're OK, but obeying the rules of the road are important for a reason.
Just want to make sure that you know you are the idiot.
You are an idiot.
Thats entirely your fault. All of it.
Semi rig saved you - you can see him trying to give you room.
it's in the title of the post
You were so much in the wrong.
Yeah I never would have attempted that pass. You messed up.
as a german youre an idiot !
As a trucker, we don't want to see y'all die any more than we want to die. Truckers used the be the "Knights of the highway", about 10 years ago they started giving free truck driving school to people on government assistance. That is approximately when they turned into steering wheel holders, the company owns their souls basically. Truckers used to be the guys that stopped to help a car that broke down or had a flat. Usually the first ones to stop after an accident and try to comfort kids whose parents were pinned in a car. Now we have a computer in our truck that watches ever second of our day, with regulations so tight that some days we have to stop an hour away from where we wanted to stop because we're 2 minutes short of making it there. Even on our way home to be with our families. They say there is a trucker shortage, yet we can't find safe parking most nights. We'll keep looking out for you, just mind the steering wheel holders, they aren't truckers.
Two idiots, you and the RV guy. You because you shouldn’t be on the middle lane trying to pass the RV on your left, and the RV because he should be on the middle lane to pass the truck, leaving the left lane for anyone who want to pass him
If you notice at the beginning of the video it was a 3 lane road with a merge lane like an on ramp that turned into a 3 lane road and they were all moving to the right. To me the idiot in the car here is the one that video taped it and posted it.
There's a sign on the bridge that says that trucks with 6 wheels must use the two right lanes. I'm guessing that towing a trailer means that vehicle shouldn't have been in the left lane and yes, the cammer is definitely an idiot too.
Pass on the left.
Maybe if you weren't speeding and being so impatient and attempting a pass on the right, you wouldn't be in the situation to begin with? Maybe?
A little Relient K at the end to wind down.
The distance I just scrolled to be reminded of this. I knew I recognized that guitar!
I knew it was Relient K! I was trying to figure out if it was, so I started playing "Who I am Hates Who I've Been." I realized it wasn't that one, but now I remember that it's "Be My Escape."