I made it clear in my initial post that the law would state that the truck driver is at fault. However, that's not the end of the story. You can be legally not at fault for an accident and still be found at least partly to blame.

Have you seriously never had to slow down or stop entirely to let a truck finish pulling out in front of you? Hell, this happens almost daily to me in Chicago.

*le sigh* Okay. You’re right.

I also never said that the truck driver in this instance wasn’t at fault. My original statement was a general comment simply stating that sometimes trucks have to force their way into traffic.

Things you also fail for when taking your CDL exam: Going through a yellow light.

Things that are perfectly legal to do in reality: Going through a yellow light.

I never said anything about a truck cutting anyone off. There is a very big difference between cutting someone off, and pulling out way ahead of them where they have plenty of time to slow down.

If you can’t understand what I am saying, then there is no point in continuing to try to explain it to you. I assume you’re one of those people who leans on their horn if a giant truck causes you to come off the gas for a few moments because he’s trying to make a left turn in busy traffic.

Yes, this is what I was thinking. The same technology that emergency vehicles use to get through intersections.

Yeah, I mean the truck driver might totally be at fault here, but it’s not automatically “his fault” just because he was turning across the road with other cars coming.

Exactly, lol. There was this one two-to-one-lane merge on my bus route where cars would try to be aggressive with you. I’m in a 20 ton bus. You think I’m going to lose this fight? Lol.

Agreed. We need to know more about the details. I’m just pointing out that it’s not as black and white as some people are making it seem (aka, the truck is not automatically 100% at fault just because he was turning in front of the Tesla.)

Ehhhhh, there is a BIT of a gray area there. Technically, you are correct, but in practice there are expectations of everyone involved. If a semi is trying to turn onto a busy street, sometimes waiting for a big enough gap will literally have you sitting at the intersection for 15 minutes. There is supposed to be…

Maybe we need to start approaching this differently. I was thinking the other day about VR systems, which use markers like dots, or round balls, to denote the location of the headset, or of a drone, to tracking cameras. Same goes for hollywood motion capture.

I’m not saying that all of our cars should be covered in…

Agreed. Trucks sometime shave to be dicks. Not necessarily cutting cars off, but sometimes you need to just force your way out when there is enough room for traffic to safely stop or you will literally NEVER be able to move.

Source: I don’t drive trucks, but I drove transit buses for many years, and the same thing…

Exactly!

Hahaha, very true. I used to race in leagues with 32 people at once, and I very quickly learned that the fastest way through Turn 1 was to let everyone else pass, and then carefully pick my way through the carnage, lol.

Who knows what kind of logistics they had time for? Maybe they were in tire warmers but then they had to line up for the start, one at a time, and it took a while to get to the line? Many possible reasons.

If you've ever tried to drive a formula car in a racing Sim on cold tires, you'd understand. Basically they have no grip. This guy was probably trying to get some heat in the tires at the start, but it's easy to go sideways doing that. Once you do, the still cold tires don't really want to hook up again, which…

Holy fuck nuts does that look comfortable. These pictures alone are making me sleepy and I only just woke up.

Except the whole point of carrying a gun is to keep you from dying. So if it statistically makes you less likely to survive then... how the fuck does the math work out in your favor?