Soldato
Everybody should. They'd live longer.Yup, that was a terrible decision, but who expects to find a black car parked sideways in lane 3?
Everybody should. They'd live longer.Yup, that was a terrible decision, but who expects to find a black car parked sideways in lane 3?
One of them being a closer than was ideal situation with a cyclist in the dark where I had two vehicle coming up fast behind me one in the other lane and one right behind me who hadn't seen the situation and in the spur of the moment I couldn't not take into account, slightly delaying my reaction, that suddenly braking might have him going into the back of me even though it was a better option than splatting a cyclist (and if the cyclist had been wearing high vis I'd have had an extra ~1 second to make a better decision in).
Maybe the Welsh just don't know how to drive on anything with more than one lanei've done approx 60k motorway miles over the last 24-30 months, albeit most of that is during rush hour so cars are regularly braking because there are traffic build-ups etc ahead. But even when driving on nice emptier stretches of motorway, i can honestly say i rarely encounter drivers randomly braking for no apparent reason. I see an awful lot of other bad driving habits - i.e. middle lane hoggers etc.
Would automatic/radar braking have helped ? can't see what bmw model it was.
as commented, dashcam footage misleading, poor nightvision (one of the reasons I haven't invested) , but,
other cars had seen it, reacted and l2 steered around .. absence of any self recrimination in his comments
Given he had plenty of clues something was amiss he didn’t seem to slow nor was he driving to the conditions arguably.
Basically the other traffic was noticeably slowing for no apparent reason - but a flow of vehicles generally won’t all slow at once for no good reason - he wasn’t thinking about what could lie ahead, he just wanted to get ahead......
Shocking example of how quickly things can go wrong and the importance of driving to the conditions. I'm sure he thought he was driving within his limits and I can see how easily he misjudged things, but he had chances to make better decisions and unfortunately for him he didn't get a second chance once he'd read the situation wrongly.
He sees the break lights of the vehicle in front come on hard and even has time to flash them before moving over, but with the speed he's doing it's too late to do anything by the time he sees the abandoned vehicle.
Don't get me wrong, the scariest bit is how easy it would be to end up in a similar situation.
That’s how it looked to me as well, you could fairly clearly see the alloy wheels from at least 100y back when the video starts so I would imagine they would have been visible before that and the driver just wasn’t paying enough attention.Could see the stranded car a good 2 seconds before the impact and didn't seem to brake at all. I feel like their eyesight must be an unacceptable standard to be driving.
Wonder how well one of them self drive cars would have handled this
Guessing it would be no different to a self drive car coming up to a traffic jam
Here a video of a stranded car with it lights on
Here a video of a stranded car with it lights on
I was looking at that as it looks like it has the lightbar on the roofWow, whats weird is the video says cop car abandons stranded vehicle, but the car that pulls up behind has similar colours to a cop car but I can't see any police logos, so perhaps it wasn't.
Wonder how well one of them self drive cars would have handled this
Guessing it would be no different to a self drive car coming up to a traffic jam
Here a video of a stranded car with it lights on
It's not a traffic cop car for sure, and the lack of florescent identification on the back for me indicates it's not a police car full stop. I think it's just somebodies works car as there's definitely branding on the door.I was looking at that as it looks like it has the lightbar on the roof
EDIT, I just looked at it again: It got be a cop car with it being in them black & white colours and you can see what looks like a written logo on the door and the roof light bar
It's not a traffic cop car for sure, and the lack of florescent identification on the back for me indicates it's not a police car full stop. I think it's just somebodies works car as there's definitely branding on the door.
What am more interested in was if a self driving car would have just driven up to it and stopped due to thinking it was in a traffic jam or would it of slowed down changed lane and driven around it like the other cars didWell the fact it is raining and dark makes no difference to self driving cars as they use radar/lidar.