When you start to think about the physics and hard math involved in moving a big rig down the road and the energy it has when moving as speed, you’ll either be terrified or respectful when you see them on the road. Remember, there’s a human being in there and human beings do not have the best track record of keeping their cool at all times in stressful situations. This video shows what can happen when what looks to be an angry truck driver decides to teach someone a lesson. In this case the person being “learned” was driving a small passenger car and they made the mistake of cutting in front of the wrong guy on the wrong day. There is an element of this that is at first humorous, but that gives way to what can only be described as horror.
How could part of this video possibly be funny? Because when the car tries to cut off the truck and ends up crossways in front of the cab, it seems to be a pretty light impact and there is something just bizarre in seeing the car being loafed along down the wet road by the truck. Any semblance of Benny Hill like humor melts away seconds later when it becomes clear that this guy is not going to stop. He throws his hazard flashers on for a minute but after that he shuts them off and continues to drive like there is nothing wrong and the car begins to move across the front of the truck. The last thing we see is the car being sent off onto the wrong side of the road and we’re sincerely hoping the person was not done any harm at that point. Is it possible that the driver could not see the car? It doesn’t seem plausible to us but we’ve never spent a lot of time in a cab over rig, so you be the judge.
Charles Wickam tipped us off to this one.
Notice …the truck is marked “Hydrogen Gas”. 🙁 🙂
The question should be does the car driver have any brain wave activity at all? Not what’s wrong with the truck driver.
Ditto!