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7:40. That’s how much of my life I want back.

Not one person here, including you - would have missed that lady walking in front of you with no reflectors in a black sweatshirt across 3 lanes of traffic in the middle of the night.

Every single person in this thread would have hit her, with their car. No rational person in the world would think, “If someone sees me…

Driver probably won’t do time. It’s a terrible thing to have happened, but it’s very likely that a huge number of people would have probably hit the pedestrian under those same circumstances. Highly doubt a jury of her peers would convict her of involuntary manslaughter or reckless/negligent homicide.

That’s neat and all, but where is one’s attention going to be, out through the window or on the night vision screen? Unless you’re a walking and driving Picasso drawing, you probably can’t do both simultaneously with any success. The problem in the video also seems to be that the headlights aren’t on (seriously, where…

How do you know ‘the car’ didn’t see her? I’m sure it did and probably applied the brakes, but at that point where it recognized the victim it would be to late to avoid the collision or substantially slow the vehicle.

According to the Stopping Distance calculator, to stop within 15 ft, the car would need to be going no faster than 17mph.

Ok, so the based on the video, it looks like the headlights didn’t illuminate her until about 3 nanoseconds before the time of impact. No chance any human could have brakes/swerved in time.

This is Cadillac’s night vision available on the CT6. I’ve personally experienced a demonstration of this where you are in very thick fog or almost pitch dark and the night vision picks up everything.

Well I suspect people are gonna crucify the driver, but I bet anybody would space out after riding around for an hour or two without touching the controls.

...How? She’s basically invisible until she’s within 20ft of a car on a 45MPH road. There’s no way in hell it’s stopping in time, and I’m not sure if it’s able to “panic swerve” around her in time.

Yeah. I consider myself a competent driver, but I know for a fact I wouldn’t have been able to stop in time there. Even swerving would’ve likely taken too long to process.

And I have to say, while she didn’t “dart out” into the road, she was wearing black with no lights or reflectors on a dark stretch of highway. I think that the driver (operator?) should have been paying more attention but I’m not sure it would have done much good. You can watch the video, and it’s almost impossible to…

We have to be offended by everything. That’s how we show we’re compassionate.

So making money on these books magically invalidates a legally binding contract? Interesting.

That makes you about 97% more serious than this running joke.

Pretty sure that’s Anthony Tolliver.

...uh, if my kinja name didn’t give it away, I’m a Boston sports fan, buddy

What an annoying little kissant.

I don’t know. I do this all the time. Sure some people think it’s weird but I guess not everyone is a dog person.