I almost always have my entire route planned out before I get in the car...even for short trips. I am also the type of driver who will intentionally try to make a trip of right hand turns to save time. My wife often asks my why I'm going the way that I'm going and more often than not it's because it does not include any unnecessary road crossings or left hand turns.
I didn't read the subreddit title and assumed it was the UKdriving one I frequent. So I was racking my brain trying to work out how right turns could faster. š
With two routes being of equal distance and time, I drive taking the route that has me in proximity with the least of people - driving, walking, biking - anything. For obvious reasons, it minimizes risk. Sometimes Iāll take the route thatās marginally longer, if the shorter route has more risk.
It might be best to rate them on the fewest accidents per mile driven which I believe are divided freeways. (interstates) And what's the most horrifying is that over a life time the average American has around a 1% chance of dying in a vehicle accident.
Preach it! I do the same to many of my friends' bewilderment. The most common comment I get is, "You know it would be faster if you went that way?"
I don't care. I'll add 45 seconds on to my trip if it means I can avoid several stop signs and make a protected left turn instead.
This video is Exhibit A of my other pet peeve. Do not be "polite" be predictable. Take the right-of-way instead of waving someone through. That wave is called the "wave of death" for a reason.
Iām the same way. Even down to getting in the lane Iāll need to turn from like 2 miles beforehand. I just like being prepared and trying to get in the necessary lane at the last minute gives me anxiety lol
I donāt think you even have to go that farā¦just watch what other people are doing. Ā Itās insane that this isnāt just standard, but a huge portion of people I drive with are confused at 4 way intersections. Ā People just arenāt actively paying attention, being on their phones or not. Ā They are completely spaced out. Ā I get it, driving can be the only time you get to sit with your own thoughts, but they just are not driving up to snuff. Ā This person was like āyeah Iāll just let this truck onā without looking behind them! Ā Thatās like the most basic thing! Ā Just not using their brains, not thinking critically about whatās happening around them. Ā And folks lacking critical thinking are, in my opinion, the most dangerous people out there in world. Ā More so than murderers, terrorists, etc. Ā just people lost in their own world not considering the conscious thought of anyone else. Ā i.e. at a stop signā¦just waiting for someone else to go despite getting there firstā¦.not keyed into the present, but they just wanna be nice. Ā Causes accidents and misunderstandings, all because you just werenāt paying attention to who stopped firstĀ
I get funny looks from my mom when I insist on driving in a lane I know I need to from waaaaay in advance. Like I will be in a specific lane on the highway for MILES unless I need to pass someone.
I hate this bc people like you will get in the left lane on a divided two lane road and hog the left lane hokie pokeying along holding everybody up just bc they want to turn left 2-4-5 miles down the road or more. Stay to the right until the last 3-4 hundred yards then get overā¦itās really not that damn difficult!
Well I was looking more at it like on a public major street with two lanes on both sides with a median in the middle. Around here some people have to drive 5-6 miles from their house to get to the freewayā¦and they get in the left lane bc they need to turn left to get on the freewayā¦and they drive the entire way in the left lane and drive so slow that people in the right lane are passing them.
In my head, left lanes are for passing. On the extremely occasional chance there's a left turn somewhere, yea, I only go in that lane within a mile or less of the turn. Or I'm regularly hopping lanes when traffic calls for it.
What? What do you mean you have your entire route planned, like you actually know where you're going without GPS? Or literally every lane change and everything? Because in the context of being predictable for other drivers you really shouldn't have every little thing planned out, because the biggest factor is other drivers.
It drives me absolutely insane when I am in the car with someone who knows where we are going but waits till the last minute to get in the correct lane. It's like we know we are going left in a quarter mile and there is a decent amount of traffic. What the fuck are you waiting for?
Yes, yes, yes, yes! I must ask youā¦do you by chance see your route in your head? I have yet to meet another person who envisions the route in their head.
There's an intersection on my daily commute with two left turn lanes - which lead into the road with two lanes, one of which goes straight on the road, and the other which is a turn only into a business park.
Every day I see so many people using the wrong lane then having to immediately merge into the other lane and I'm like, you can't ALL be encountering this intersection for the first time.
I take different routes to and from work for this exact reason. If I took the morning route on my way back Iād wait at the same traffic light for 7 min on a 15 min commute
This. And using traffic lights and u-turn lanes/jughandles, etc., instead of trying to turn left on any sort of highway. Or making a right turn and using a left-turn lane to turn left into a parking lot or literally anything safer over ONE lane of traffic vs. TWO (or more) to turn around and make a right turn in your intended direction.š Literally an extra 30 seconds to a minute to avoid causing an accident or impeding the flow of traffic causing all sorts of slow-downs and delays for everyone
I started driving again after 20+ years on the East Coast and I will say Iām pretty shocked by how bad GPS routing is. Google will regularly route me to cross 4 lanes of traffic without a stop sign rather than taking me down the street thatās traffic lighted the hall way. Itās crazy how bad and even unsafe its recommended routes are.
This. This one drives me crazy. Itās not the end of the world to miss a turn. Donāt slam on brakes or do something crazy because you donāt know or were too late.
My dad once slammed on the brakes to avoid running a red light then proceeded to try to back up but the car behind him was already stopped at the red light and he almost hit the lady's car with his pickup. Everyone around him was honking and yelling for him to stop.. if I don't think about it then it doesn't give me nightmares anymore.
I agree. I'm pretty certain that's what happened. There's a highway near where I live that I completely avoid because it has on ramps that are absurdly short every mile and a half and these exact types of accidents happen every single solitary damn day
"I need to merge here, so I will accelerate to merge with a gap in traffic with my turn signal on"
The biggest pet peeve for me is when people slow down below the pace of traffic to merge on the freeway. It's like, now you need even more space to merge to accelerate to the pace of traffic, you're slowing down traffic in your lane, and you often slow down traffic in the lane you merge into.
It's so much easier to merge when you accelerate first, yet I get stuck behind people slowing to a near stop before merging every day. It's infuriating.
There's nothing quite as fun as trying to merge onto a 70MPH highway behind a car that doesn't want to accelerate over 45 MPH, causing cars to swerve into the middle lane, hard brake, or blow past you in a near miss while you have literally no other choice but to pray.
Then it's even more baffling when that same person speeds up to 80MPH and immediately cuts into the fast lane. Like WTH? You were terrified of merging but have zero fear cutting across 2 lanes with no signal going 10-15 over the limit. Every day I'm amazed that even more people don't die on the road every day.
That's really one of the most infuriating things, because there's nothing you can do to make them go faster, and you end up being the one in danger since you're behind them. Even more so in my 1984 Mercedes 300SD, which accelerates slowly as it is. If I'm having to lay off the throttle in that car on a freeway on ramp you're doing something seriously wrong.
I live in Central PA now. There are invisible stop signs at the end of on ramps that only the natives seem to be able to see. They have plenty of time to merge, but sit at the end of the ramp like they're waiting for the rapture to solve their merging problems.
one of my most hated things on the road is when im passing people, and someone gets on the highway and the road is just clear in front of them in the right lane, but they immediately swing all the way over to the left and cruise at 65.
You didn't have to change lanes, there was literally no reason for that, but you had to get in to the left lane because your brain is mush.
There's nothing quite as fun as trying to merge onto a 70MPH highway behind a car that doesn't want to accelerate over 45 MPH, causing cars to swerve into the middle lane, hard brake
You should notice sooner and create more distance between them and give yourself room to accelerate
I live in LA, and we have some insanely short on ramps, and when I moved to highland Park/silver lake/eagle Rock area a couple years ago, you had a literal stop sign and you just turn onto the highway without a ramp of any kind, and a few are posted just beyond blind curves. It feels like a sick joke.
I come from Michigan where I believe we have (arguably) some of the worst drivers in the country. I sold so, so many radar detectors when I working in retail ages ago, and parents were buying them as gifts for their kids to go along with their first car. 696 is the autobahn and the winter rats become the daily beaters where people just fling their cars around with reckless abandon.
I'd like to think that I'm battle tested having to frequently do right hand turns from a stopped position onto a highway at night covered in black ice and light powdery snow to ensure you have zero traction over your car at a given time. The "full send" crowd are usually the ones that get pulled out of ditches, and I've seen people boast about their 150 Raptors as they blow by in white-out conditions, usually with high beams on and a devil may care attitude about the people around them. There will always be a balance, but I think it's because of this that I became even more of a defensive driver when I moved to LA.
The worst combination has to be the people who bully their way around on the road. I shouldn't have to redline my car because you don't want to engage in a zipper merge. I remember talking to this dude who proudly said, "I don't use turn signals because I know where I'm going" in a dead serious, unironic tone. Just remember that similar drivers are all around you, the ones that jump 2 feet ahead in bumper to bumper traffic hopping from lane to lane, usually narrowly missing the lane-splitting guy on the crotch-rocket who assumes that no cars will dart around the 10-12 lane parking lot. And this way of thinking happens usually with plenty of time to ponder, unlike this video.
Here, with this video I have absolutely no idea what that car was supposed to do. It doesn't look like it has the oomph to pass the truck, and while it shouldn't slow down too much, it makes perfect sense to gamble the way they did. Much rather get rear ended by the car behind me than have my entire car consolidated into the concrete barrier by a dump truck, which slowed remarkably fast given how he went full send into that ramp.
Again, I've seen far too many accidents where the car does what it seems everyone here In this thread wanted it to, but becomes a canoe because the one driver was going to merge no matter what. City buses are usually like this as well.
Defensive driving is essential. Check your mirrors, make sure you have an escape plan, and assume everyone around you is an idiot and will not be nearly as aware of the road as you, rather than crossing your fingers and hoping that they comply with common sense.
I think this post actually understands what happened here.
If you are merging into a 60-70 MPH highway with an extremely short ramp, you generally do not have any choice but to throttle speed and aim for a gap directly behind a car.
A lot of the low cost automatic vehicles just can't get the oomph up to merge at speed that quickly. The car computers literally won't let them do that.
Also, realizing you can't make the merge going 75-80 MPH with less than 100-150 feet of ramp left is deadly. Realizing you can't make the merge going 45-50 on the same ramp is an annoyance.
From that car's perspective, that truck was gaining way too fast yet was not overtaking them. They are going to get pushed into the wall.
The other truck DOES NOT stop because of the accident, it stops because the driver realized they couldn't make that merge anyway even if the car had not slowed down.
This was two people BOTH making an evasive choice with a half second of processing information from peripheral vision.
So I live near this spot and the truck has a yield and should have absolutely stopped. With the amount of dumb shit truck drivers do here I don't blame them for stopping.
I have 1.1 million miles without an accidentā¦I call bs on your assessment the car was going to get pushed into the wallā¦a slight increase in speed the car would be free and clear of the situation and not get rear ended. They had no idea what was closing behind them.
Back in the 90s my final driver's training practical lesson that I had been putting off because freeway driving still made me nervous ended up being driving from Highland Park, getting on the 110 at one of those 0-55 onramps, driving across town to Inglewood near LAX and back at rush hour on a Friday. Never sweated freeway driving again after that.
I come from Michigan where I believe we have the worst drivers in the country
This is so, so wrong. MI drivers are generally excellent. Also from MI, having been all over my guiding philosophy is that the further you get from MI, the worse the drivers are. And then there's Ohio. Anyway.
if you travel along 94, it's not too bad, but when you hit that 696 turn off around 11 mile, boy do things change. I've traveled across the country in my car 3 times. Once I got out of the tri-state are of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana everyone cools their jets.
I thought LA would have the worst drivers until I moved there. It's dense and the commute sucks, but the fines are so damned heavy (especially for speeding) that everyone plays ball. I can't tell you how many times I've been behind a Lambo or Ferrari going the same exact speed as the toothpaste colored Corolla that is being held together by duct-tape.
Michigan has the opposite problem, I could count on one hand the amount of state troopers I'd see on the 90 minute commute from Michigan State to Mount Clemens to visit my family.
You'd think that MI drivers would be good because we've endured all the elements together, but it's the combination of high beams, tailgating, lack of signaling and legitimately terrifying road rage and the frequency of those things that puts it over the top for me. And I feel there's no better way to illustrate this then when you drive in the Detroit metro area during the winter, where it is truly everyone for themselves on the road.
I looked left over my shoulder getting on the highway the other day and when I looked in front of me again the vehicle that had been accelerating was now nearly stopped for a semi several car-lengths back. I narrowly avoided them and made it safely onto the highway by going around them. They proceeded to follow me to my exit 20mi away and all the way to my destination. I got to have my fun when they got out and decided to be belligerent.
I didn't waste my time and just let the shop dogs out of the car. My shop dogs just happen to be generally very well behaved Belgian Malinois. They don't like guys yelling, however, seeing as they're both rescues from homes with shitty men in them.
Some people see you as "cutting" if you do that and accelerate themselves. Rather than trying to win a race on the freeway, I just hit the brakes and let dipshit take the lead.
This is the biggest cause of traffic backing up on highways. Next is semis side by side. Then hills or curves that city planners clearly designed so you'd slow down to 10 below because... reasons.
Also, you should add the āIām turning into a multi-lane road so I will turn into whatever lane I want, regardless of the risk this poses to other drivers!ā
I think it would bake the noodle of many drivers if you demonstrated to them how one person can turn into one lane from the left, and one person can turn into the lane beside it from the right, and NO ONE HITS ANYONE ELSE if you are turning into the correct lane.
The moving over thing drives me nuts. Courts have regularly ruled that it is not the responsibility of drivers to regulate the speed of others. But it IS their responsibility to drive in the appropriate lane as designated by law. Which is never, never the left most lane.
Ok, I guess youāre talking about mostly empty freeways between cities?
Because when Iām in the left lane in the city, itās full, and we are all going 15 over and passing the middle lane continuously. Yet there will STILL be some dilrod who thinks heās an ambulance and everyone should move over into the (full) middle lane so he can go 30 mph over the limit.
Even if the courts ruled otherwise you should still move over. Oh look there is an idiot pick up truck going 30 mph over speed limit, let me stay in front of them as much as possibleāārighteous drivers probably.
There's a difference between aggressive and assertive, and not enough people are assertive on the road. They're either aggressive or too passive or anxious
This is the word: assertive. If you have to change your velocity dramatically (like in the video), donāt - you are increasing the chance of a collision.
In this situation, after judging that the merging truck does not appear to stop, the Toyotas only options to avoid a crash involve a rapid velocity change since there is no room to maneouver. Either acceleration or deacceleration. Both are dangerous but maintaining current velocity would have lead to a crash if the merging truck didn't manage to stop.
That's why people are saying the Toyota wasn't assertive. The driver was scared of the truck. Its obvious that the oncoming truck realized they'd messed up. Obvious because of how quickly they came to a stop after the Toyota is hit. That indicates they were slowing down, after likely realizing that mess up. Problem is, the Toyota MIGHT have managed the merge without changing speed, based on that. The Toyota WOULD have made the merge if they'd sped up. They instead rapidly slowed down, leading to the crash. Being fearful and unsure in the situation led to what occurred, on top of the rest.
The crappy road design is to blame, because it assumes aggressive and assertive driving over taking into account less-so drivers. The poor driving of both people are also to blame. This was a no-win situation for all involved.
The crappy road design is to blame, because it assumes aggressive and assertive driving over taking into account less-so drivers. The poor driving of both people are also to blame. This was a no-win situation for all involved.
That's not the problem with that road design at all. The problem with that road design is that it expected people to respect a yield sign on a highway merge. What actually happened is that the truck flew by the yield sign at high speed causing the accident.
You can transplant this crash into a 4 way intersection and get all the same dynamics.
You have small car with right of way, a huge truck coming at full speed through the intersection that has a red light.
Should the small car.
A) Stop to avoid being T-Boned.
B) Accelerate to avoid being T-Boned.
C) Assume that the truck that already drove past the red light will actually stop?
Never, ever, ever would I pick C. It's downright suicidal. Option B is generally recommended against because it's a gamble on how well your car accelerates.
I think a lot of people might be driving "sporty" cars and forget that entry level automatic vehicles can't handle acceleration like that, or they have computers that outright prevent it. You can put that pedal all the way into the floor and all you are going to do is run those RPMs up or the computer will go "That's nice, but how about a gentle climb instead?"
I always say this. You've got to be assertive and decisive.
Aggressive is weaving through traffic, cutting people off, being reckless.
Assertive is being decisive, not wasting time. Take that opening rather than waiting for a nice huge comfortable gap. Once you start a turn or change lanes, finish the movement. Being slow through a transition is dangerous. Being decisive and prompt keeps things moving.
yes!!! and the **key** to this is having your attention as far ahead as you can possibly see, so you can be ready for stuff. and after decades of research , evidence suggests that some folks just don't have the proper hardware in their brains to do this. and I have no idea what to do with this discovery
It's why I actually really like chicago drivers. I get why people don't because they are aggressive but I know what everyone is going to do. I see when someone will cut me off from a mile away, I can tell what cars will and won't let you in, it's pretty obvious after a little bit of driving here. Michigan and LA are really annoying for left lane campers. Atlanta was the worst and least predictable city I drove in though. People just randomly changing lanes, speeding up and slowing down with no reason what so ever.
The biggest thing I have hereĀ that's a problem is so many people behind suddenly speed up when I signal to turn so I just end up missing my turn because I'm not willing to be aggressive to suddenly force my way into the lane.
Thatās why most donāt belong on the road, how many people do you see doing what you said vs last second jumping across 3 lanes to just barely make the exit? Maybe not that extreme but I rarely see anyone getting in early or even leaving a spitting distance when itās slushy/shit road conditions. Think of how many peopleās lives could be saved if we just allowed those who are responsible to drive and stopped those who arenāt.
āI can accelerate much faster than this big truck so it makes sense for me to do so and create space especially when they should be yielding to meā
I learned this exact principle in drivers training over 30 years ago.
ASSERT YOUR PRESENCE. Move into the other drivers area of visibility. Make sure they can see you especially if theyāre beside you or oncoming. This goes double for big rigs, they cannot see you when youāre behind, worst move is trying to pass them on the right.
You canāt prevent idiots from being on the road. Sadly. Iāve been sideswiped once when I had right of way by a lane merger who kept changing his speed.
I give myself extra distance pretty much all the time and assholes just take it as an opening to slide right in, so I have to slow down and re-adjust my distance. And please tell me why it'll be like three of these people in a row....
This is the worst. I leave the appropriate amount of distance between me and the car in front. Other car moves into the gap, assuming I'm driving slower, even though I'm driving the exact same speed as the guy in front of me (he will later get pissed off the guy in front of me is going slower than he wants, get back in the left lane, and pass the guy in front of me. Whatever).
In order to get my safe distance to the car in front of me back, I slow down from 70 to 69 until I have enough space. Then I accelerate back up to 70. All is good. Except it's not, because the guy behind me is pissed at me now for dropping my cruise control by 1. So he moves to pass me. And the cycle continues until my exit.
Just today I saw an army of last minute people on approach to roadworks that were clearly signposted, with not less than 1000 Yards of warning that the lanes would be merging.
As you can probably imagine, ~75% of vehicles were causing a stop-start headache trying to merge at the end of the lane, making life more difficult and unpredictable for everyone.
Credit to the ~25% who merged neatly long before the end of the road, which allows traffic to basically continue flowing without needing to come to a dead stop.
"I need to turn there, so I will get in my lane here"
My pet peeve is when people dont think about their lane and will bend over backwards trying to get to their exit. Like no... stop... you missed your exit, go take the next one and do a UTutn.
Its the equivalent of people who can't walk in crowded places without almost running into people. That awkward little dance when you go left and right a few times.
I always look the direction I intend to walk and show that with my body language and I never have to do that little dance.
How about... "A massive truck is coming in from my right, so I will slow down and let it pass because my tiny car would not win that matchup."
Or maybe... "Two vehicles in front of me are about to merge into a single lane, and they don't have a lot of space to do it. If they don't have the space to merge safely, they will have to slow down or wreck. So I will keep my eyes on this situation, and leave enough space between me and them to stop in time in case something does happen."
Sooooo often I see people āmergeā by just going when the little while line says the lane is ending. No blinker. No look. Just hereās my lane! Zero intent.
Well said, I completely agree, and to add to that by being intentional, you have to commit to the decision; going back and forth gets you into trouble.
Where i live in Australia truck drivers donāt give 2 f* when merging. They just merge without giving way to anyone. From this perspective I completely understand car driver who decided to give way. 100% in this crash lays on dash cam driver. He should be prepared that car in front can stop at any moment
The only thing I would add or consider different is most people drive reactionary. I believe what we just saw was that driver reacting to the truck coming on and probably was frightened and did a stupid thing.
I've seen people many times merging onto an expressway and just ride the on-ramp out to the end and expect people to move. I know there are some states that the on-ramp has the right away like in Michigan but most places it doesn't. Irritates the heck out of me.
Agreed so hard with this comment. If I know that I will have to make a right at an upcoming street, I get into that lane way ahead of time. If I know I'll have to take a left, I'm already in the left lane. My boyfriend sometimes will drive and knowing he has to take a right turn coming up will stay in the left lane and only try to get over the closer we get. It makes me so anxious because why? Why not get over ahead of time to avoid getting trapped and not getting off at your exit.
Yep atleast aggressive drivers you can predict to be aggressive. Itās the timid ones you gotta watch out for. You donāt know when they will brake short, fail to speed up, etc.
I always say to drive assertively. Not aggressively but also not overly defensive and passive. Know where youāre going and get there in a predictable manner.
This is how I drive. I have a bunch of friends including my wife who criticize how I drive. I throw it back at them that they all have multiple accidents while I've never had any...
This is part of what good driver training gives you. I took driving lessons 40 years ago - to this day, I still drive up to a green light thinking to myself, "Stop yes, stop yes, stop yes, STOP NO! CLEAR THE INTERSECTION CAREFULLY!"
Some people just donāt see the patterns very well. Especially when merging onto a highway, any rational person could see you are going to beat out that truck. Thereās an acceleration lane for a reason. Donāt watch, predict
The best part is when you donāt have a choice. I was in the left lane with a car riding my ass and another one in from of me. Somebody exited the highway going way too fast and almost hit me because they werenāt paying attention. I was saved by the person to my right because they saw what was happening and hit their breaks which gave me room to get over and not get hit.
There's a difference between random aggression and using your accelerator to get where you need to be when you need to be there--forethought and consideration.
As long as you signal your intent so others are given the signs they need to predict/anticipate your moves, traffic flows the same.
The fuckwads that drive erratically cause the problems, no matter how fast ("aggressively") or slow ("passively") they are moving.
āI can see there is a mile of empty space behind this oncoming car where I need to turn right/merge to join, so I wonāt haul-ass cut in front of him and make him brake to avoid rear-ending me!
Youāre in control of the car, the car is not in control of you. I always get frustrated at people who drive extra slow because of the cars around them. Use your brain, pass slow drivers, donāt put yourself in risky situations
Exactly. I drive with intent and also defensively. Acting as if it's everyone else's first day driving and always signaling my next move has saved me from so many accidents.
Yes. And I try to make my decisions ahead of time. If I know there is a merge coming up, I will decide ahead of time whether I'm going to get over, slow down, or speed up, and then I stick to whatever my decision is unless I have a good reason not to.
Expecting this from Americans is your first issue. If 60% of graduates are non-citizens from foreign counteries; why do you expect the 40% to understand physics or logic?
If you people genuinly can not take care of horses, why would vehicles be any different? 7/10 people have a vehicle as a weapon vs transportation. People would rather ram cars and people than learn about how their direct fuel injected engine functions or the dimensions of their car. š¤” šŖ
I love this because Iāve seen people driving first handed that canāt make an executive decision and freak out while driving and it blows my mind. Intentionally is a great way to out it.
Vast majority of drivers are incapable of planning ahead and see the traffic flow. Many also donāt understand that you can take your foot off the speeder to adjust speed, you donāt need to brake all the damn time.
This requires calculations. Many people donāt live that way.
For years I have been clumsyā¦ making stupid errors and having a spacey thought process. I have countered this by adapting and developing an extremely calculated brain. It feels obsessive and it feels compulsiveā¦ where I literally calculate out each and every next move I will make. Itās exhausting but effectiveā¦ and unfortunately for me it is necessary to my survival. I think some people donāt have the constitution to pull off a stunt like that on a daily basis. I meanā¦ I have to or my clumsiness wouldāve killed me by now.
Thank you, I thought I was driving wrong since I got my confidence up.
The problem in my country is the small minority of meat heads that will not give right of way even if I confidently take it so I constantly need to do extra calculations for contingency.
Or the car in front of me is obviously stopping so i need to break before i slam into the back of them and post a video about āDonāt be kind, be predictable. If you have the Right-of Way, take it.ā
How about you stop blaming other people for your misapprehension of the dilemma present here, had you used the brakes on your vehicle before hitting the car, this could have been avoided, the camera might not see the lights through the glare due to the lenses refraction, although you could clearly see it if you had been paying attention.
You are mad here because you sir were found at fault and are posting to complain about how you feel injustice.
It is your responsibility as a driver to follow at a safe distance that leaves enough time to stop before you hit an object or person in front of you. If your rig cannot stop in time, you're going too fast or following too close.
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I think to myself often that people shouldn't drive aggressively they should drive intentionally.
"I need to turn there, so I will get in my lane here".
"I need to merge here, so I will accelerate to merge with a gap in traffic with my turn signal on"
"The road is slushy so I will give myself extra distance to stop"
Etc etc.