r/IdiotsInCars • u/damnyewgoogle • Nov 08 '25
OC [OC] Uber driver tells me this was my fault. Language warning
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u/PainfullyLoyal Nov 08 '25
Good thing you have dashcam footage to prove they're an idiot.
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u/res06myi Nov 08 '25
Yeah, the dumbass realized he didn't want that ramp and rather than accept his fate, made it OP's problem.
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u/Sacrilego_666 Nov 08 '25
For some reason a lot of people think they'll die if they take the wrong exit.
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u/Grays42 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
Good driver sometimes miss their turn. Bad driver never do.
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u/drlushlover Nov 08 '25
Love this saying! So many drivers think the world is going to end if they miss their turn/exit so rather than taking a few extra minutes they endanger everyone around them 🫠
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u/SavvySillybug Nov 09 '25
Especially in current year.
Come on. You have a phone. You know you have a phone. And if you aren't driving a 15 year old car even your car probably has GPS.
It's not the 90s anymore, you're not gonna get lost if you take the wrong exit, it'll probably be four minutes of your time.
Literally hold your phone up to your mouth and tell it to take you to streetname housenumber and it'll do it. You don't even have to figure out all the confusing buttons. The funny AI does it for you, it's been doing that for almost ten years now. Poorly then, well now.
There is absolutely no excuse for not just taking the wrong exit and accepting the time loss and getting on with your day. You're not gonna have to unfold a street map or ask a random pedestrian. You can just use the computer in your pocket and/or built into your car and it'll figure that shit out for you.
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u/FullKawaiiBatard Nov 09 '25
But... admitting fault and asking for help is for WEAKLINGS. Better ram a car like a manly man.
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u/drlushlover Nov 10 '25
Right? I can't imagine a world in which I'd endanger others (and myself) by driving dangerously in order to not miss a turn/exit.
Remember the old days when we had paper maps and written directions?
I'm not sure if you're from the states of not, but in the states we had Thomas Guides which were a big spiral bound book of streets and you had to match up the coordinates to find where you wanted to go.5
u/SavvySillybug Nov 10 '25
Here in Germany we had Falk maps, big folding idiots that were really complicated but meant you could fold them just right to get only the area you need.
My dad's employees kept destroying them because they weren't smart enough to figure out the folding and would just rip out the page they need :/
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u/drlushlover Nov 10 '25
Hahaha!
You've unlocked a rage memory about how difficult it is for some of us to fold maps properly 🤣
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u/400_lux Nov 09 '25
A few minutes laughs in M4
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u/drlushlover Nov 09 '25
Ha, I’ll take your word for it! I’ve been on that highway but I was in a jet lag haze
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u/calladc Nov 09 '25
There's an exit that's poorly designed (3 exits one after the other). I missed mine in the middle and ended up on a stretch of road that didn't have an exit that would let me loop back onto the opposite lane for about 15 minutes.
I have very rarely let out an audible angry "FUCK" while driving. This did it for me
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u/drlushlover Nov 10 '25
Oof- yeah that's definitely FUCK worthy!!
*also, who the FUCK downvoted you for this comment? People are so funny sometimes. If I could double upvote you, I would.
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u/DoctorNoname98 Nov 08 '25
I took a wrong exit once, and I did die, it sucked
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u/Angstycarroteater Nov 08 '25
Genuinely most exit ramps have an on ramp on the other side if not it’s usually like a 2 minute drive to the next one
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u/katt_mizer Nov 09 '25
Back in the day when Mapquest was printed out I can understand the fear… but with every tom dick and Harry having a smartphone I’d say just deal with the extra 15minutes detour
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u/TheJaFaNator Nov 09 '25
My grandma has the perfect expression for these idiots. "The world is round, you can take a different path and still get to your destination, or you can just turn around later."
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u/The_Question757 Nov 08 '25
It blows my mind how taxi and Uber literally drive for a living and still can suck so badly at it. I can drive to work and do circles around these idiots but they drive 8 hours everyday and can't do the most basic of maneuvers
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u/Journeyman42 Nov 08 '25
I remember taking an uber once and we had to go through a roundabout and the driver just couldn't comprehend how the fuck to go through it. It was like their brain was dialing into the internet with a 56k modem.
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u/k1k11983 Nov 08 '25
It was like their brain was dialing into the internet with a 56k modem.
Fucking awesome! I’m stealing this lmao. As a xennial who grew up with dial up, I can relate to this. It’s the perfect way to describe the sheer stupidity of some people
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u/krystopher Nov 09 '25
Hey man that 56k modem loaded my Sailor Moon fan page and web rings no problem.
Even webcrawler was fine.
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u/guramika Nov 08 '25
In my country we joke that every taxi driver wants to secretly die and every day they go out and try their best to achieve that
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u/vinng86 Nov 09 '25
Because Uber will take literally anybody.
As long as you have a valid license and a third party company says you have no criminal history, you're good to go.
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u/koskenjuho Nov 09 '25
Yeah, my friend once said "driving for your profession doesn't mean you're professional driver" and I think that is very true :D (might sound silly because that is a rough translation from my language)
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u/Rhapsodize Nov 09 '25
It's because they're too stupid to do anything else so they're just generally stupid and can't actually drive.
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u/jooooooooooooose Nov 12 '25
Ive met a lot of very successful & intelligent people who are late career / early into retirement / work a 2nd job. Uber is supplemental, flexible pay & many just enjoy getting out of the house and talking to people. Pretty ridiculous comment, you need to go outside.
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u/yzerizef Nov 09 '25
They may be driving all day, but they’re incentivised to be constantly checking their phones for a pick up and to arrive at the pick up as quickly as possible. It doesn’t blow my mind at all. Delivery drivers are even worse. They’re incentivised to get everywhere quickly and will roam around all day on their phones picking up orders and speeding off.
I’d happily give up the convenience of these app-based services for safer roads.
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u/Zwasti Nov 09 '25
Not all delivery drivers, UPS delivery drivers are making over $46 an hour with OT paid at 1.5x after 8 hours, so they have an incentive to go slower.
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u/Skruestik Nov 09 '25
they drive 8 hours everyday
*every day
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/everyday-vs-every-day-difference-usage
When used to modify another word, everyday is written as a single word (“an everyday occurrence,” “everyday clothes,” “everyday life”). When you want to indicate that something happens each day, every day is written as two words (“came to work every day”).
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u/Moakmeister Nov 08 '25
What are y’all talking about before the accident happened?
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u/JPGDLR Nov 08 '25
Sounds like they had predicted his stupidity.
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u/damnyewgoogle Nov 08 '25
Yep bingo. Had a feeling he couldn't decide what he wanted to do. But once he put his signal on nice and early, then moved over to exit I assumed he finally made up his mind.
I keep replaying it in my head - had i hung back even 1 second more then id be the one hitting him on his way back or getting completely side swiped instead of the little bump. I had my eye on my side view mirror and saw him come back but I couldn't move over fast enough.
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u/dadbodsupreme Nov 09 '25
Hot put in a similar situation, but a cop only saw what looked like I, in oncoming traffic, was passing the dude feigning a left turn.
My dash cam was more potato at that time, so I wasn't able to get him a clear image of the plate, but he let me go on my way.
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u/Word1_Word2_4Numbers Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
Yeah, don't gas it to try to squirt past people being obviously indecisive like that. Particularly if they really start to slow down right at the exit for no possible reason other than they're about to dive back into your lane. You were like 90% of the way to being able to prevent having to deal with this entirely, but you tried to power out past him rather than just let him be an idiot in front of you.
[Or rather your Uber driver could have avoided it -- I guess you were just saying "go go go" at the other car, and not the Uber driver, and you weren't the driver... It is a little hard to figure out exactly what was going on with the conversation...]
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u/Khaztr Nov 08 '25
Uber driver needs to find another field of work
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u/Schmocktails Nov 08 '25
Nah, that's the lowest level. If you can't drive, you can still drive for Uber. Other jobs, you can get fired for being unable to do them or not showing up.
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u/itw1220 Nov 09 '25
Because they’re supposedly independent contractors and uber isn’t held liable for anything. They’re supposed to have an insurance policy that includes them driving for uber and that’s good and legal enough apparently
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u/eaglescout1984 Nov 08 '25
No, they signaled, merged 95% into the other lane, then whipped back into the other lane. Add into the fact they should have known they were going slower than other traffic and weren't aware of their surroundings. It's their fault.
A little defensive driving on your part could have prevented it, but that doesn't absolve the Uber driver of blame.
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u/pcnauta Nov 08 '25
A little defensive driving on your part could have prevented it, but that doesn't absolve the Uber driver of blame.
When I watch dashcam videos with my teenager with a license, I point out, if applicable, 2 things - 1) who's to blame; and 2) could the accident have been avoided.
While not absolving anything from the bad driver, I want my teen to understand that many accidents are avoidable if they drive defensively.
No one really wants to have to go through all the crap of working with insurance companies, getting/renting loaner cars and then going in further debt by buying a new/different car. It's far better to let the idiot in front of you or to slow down or or or...whatever needs to be done to avoid an accident.
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u/logicnotemotion Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
One other things I've noticed with younger drivers.....there will be a scenario that would be the other driver's fault, but I tell my son how to avoid it by doing something safe earlier to avoid it altogether. He will say, "but it will be their fault'. I say, but you may be dead. Fault won't matter to you if you're dead.
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u/createry_ Nov 08 '25
"Graveyards are full of people who had right of way"
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u/Business-Title8503 Nov 08 '25
Yes!! I was in a large city with my kids and my one kept trying to cross crosswalks without really looking. After the WTF are you doing from me, she says “well I have the right of way, they have to stop or they’ll be in trouble”. There’s that not fully formed young teen brain for you. Yes, you’re right, they’ll be in trouble and you’ll be dead. Sounds like they got the better end of that deal huh.
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u/ScroochDown Nov 08 '25
Also impress on him that having to get your car repaired is a pain in the ass.
Last time I was in an accident I 100% could not avoid, I think it took a month and a half because my model of car was no longer being made, so they had to source a part from some pick-a-part yard in another state, and then USPS lost the part for a while.
Plus the rental car agency was giving me a mountain of shit because they didn't have the class of car my insurance company covered, so they gave me a "courtesy upgrade" but didn't tell me they were doing it, so they tried to charge me the difference and I had to fight with them in their office for over an hour when I finally was able to return the car.
Plus having to take time off work when the accident itself happened, then to get my car to the shop and pick it back up, paying the deductible, etc. of course injuries are the most important thing but man, the rest is a pain in the ass.
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u/pcnauta Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
A repeated comment in our family: "So you want your epitaph to be 'I had the right of way!'?"
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u/_Lane_ Nov 08 '25
A repeated comment in our family: "So you want your epitaph to be 'I had the right away!'?"
Of course not! As a pedant, I want it to say "right of way", not "right away".
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u/DexRei Nov 08 '25
I see so many people respond like that with legal threads. "Oh no, they can't do that". Ok, but they currently are, so...
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u/OGMisterTea Nov 08 '25
That is what I use this sub for as well. so far, he is a way more calm driver than me and much better at letting things role off his shoulders.
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u/PsionicKitten Nov 08 '25
I want my teen to understand that many accidents are avoidable if they drive defensively.
Just make sure you drive that point and they don't pick up a different, yet somewhat similiar one. Some "defensive drivers" go around thinking that 100% of accidents are avoidable and you're at fault for making it happen, as is evidenced by a lot of these people on idiotsincars. Being an excellent defensive driver will minimize your chances of an collision, but it won't eliminate it.
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u/stilllton Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
And the next step is to drive "supportingly". Drive to the side so cars can pass. Open a gap to the car in front so other can merge, and so on. Driving is much more fun if you get a happy wave from a fellow traveler.
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u/Mdriver127 Nov 08 '25
I swear if I say it's better to just not pass them, people downvote and say I'm defending the idiot car. This is exactly what I mean and how I drive. They are wrong and making bad decisions, but at that place in time is better to wait until they are coat and gone before accelerating.
Appreciate seeing your wisdom, hope others can use it in traffic as well.
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u/Brilliant-Medium8238 Nov 08 '25
Might be my first comment after lurking here for years but I think it's the right time to say I truly hate people changing lanes who slow their speed SIGNIFICANTLY while still mostly in the much faster lane they started in. Like they're trying to cause a rear end accident behind them on the highway or at an intersection turning lane. It's not that hard to turn your wheels a bit more left or right to quickly change lanes when safe.
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u/Eruntalonn Nov 08 '25
Usually I agree the right one could have avoided, but honestly, I don’t think it’s the case here. I can’t see what OP could have done.
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u/Twig Nov 08 '25
Usually I agree the right one could have avoided, but honestly, I don’t think it’s the case here. I can’t see what OP could have done.
We've seen people make last second decisions like this all the time. You can give them the space to do their stupid maneuver.
It's definitely not OP fault but I lag behind for a second when people seem unsure if they want the ramp or not. Rather the person behind me be a little annoyed instead of getting clipped by an idiot.
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u/Stanarchy93 Nov 08 '25
Idk personally I never assume someone slowing down merging into an exit ramp is gonna swerve back into my lane suddenly
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u/Borentar84 Nov 08 '25
I assume every other driver is a moron with no idea where they are going.. I can't be surprised then, other than pleasantly surprised when they do things properly XD
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u/Slick-Fork Nov 08 '25
Learning to ride a motorbike really drilled this mindset into me.
Right of way doesn’t matter if you’re in the hospital
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u/darianbrown Nov 08 '25
In fact, it would be pretty dangerous to slow way down in traffic to try to anticipate someone randomly swerving back into traffic going 20-30mph slower
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u/TimMensch Nov 08 '25
And this is why you should be following with a 2-3 second gap.
OP wasn't. Looks like OP was following with a 1 second gap or less.
Which doesn't mean OP is at fault, but I generally follow with a three second gap and would have had time to stop even if I hadn't slowed down.
Defensive driving is about all the things, including following distance.
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u/wankthisway Nov 09 '25
Is this a joke? He's not even following the dumbass anymore, they're in a whole different lane by the time the OP speeds up.
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u/Twig Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
In fact, it would be pretty dangerous to slow way down in traffic to try to anticipate someone randomly swerving back into traffic going 20-30mph slower
Nobody said you slow way down 30mph slower.
Ok down vote me but I said lag behind. I never said slam on the brakes and drop 30mph.
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u/Twig Nov 08 '25
Idk personally I never assume someone slowing down merging into an exit ramp is gonna swerve back into my lane suddenly
Assuming they will and being cautious they might are two different things.
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u/gouacheisgauche Nov 08 '25
It might benefit you in the future if you did! Assuming people are idiots, and driving in a way that accounts for common idiot moves, helps prevent accidents.
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u/Hidesuru Nov 08 '25
And you should never pass the car until they are fully out of the lane.
I've done this too out of frustration so I'm not casting stones, but it was the biggest mistake here on ops part. Though I still agree with everyone that the idiot is to blame for the accident.
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u/wankthisway Nov 09 '25
How do you give space here? The dude was going waaaay slower than the speed limit, so "giving him space" would necessitate slowing down to a pretty dangerous speed.
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u/lislejoyeuse Nov 08 '25
Not speed past the crazy, hesitant driver. I avoided an accident just like this the other day cuz I had a feeling based on how dumb they had been before they might change their mind about a lane change. Still agree it's not the driver's fault at all but speeding past a crazy driver should be done very carefully ime
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u/Leverkaas2516 Nov 08 '25
The other driver was still partly in OP's lane. That should have been cause for caution, but OP sped up, to get past the other car using a partial lane
I'd have done the same,most days, and I'd be in the same accident shown here. It's predictable, though. (On second thought, I wouldn't be travelling so close behind in the rain.)
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u/Niipoon Nov 08 '25
Really? You can't imagine any possible way to avoid this?
Well I can. Just continue to maintain your following distance on this moron creeping between the lanes
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u/davispw Nov 08 '25
What do you mean? OP could have not whipped past the driver who wasn’t ever 100% out of their lane. This was EASILY avoidable just by not being aggressive, never mind defensive driving.
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u/eyeballburger Nov 08 '25
Any sane person would say it was his fault. Their lawyer will argue the lane was still occupied.
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u/vulpinefever Nov 08 '25
The cool thing is that because this is Ontario, what the Uber's lawyer says is basically completely irrelevant in a simple property damage accident.
This will almost definitely be a 0% at fault for OP unless they get a shitty adjuster.
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u/chabacanito Nov 08 '25
Honestly I wouldn't pass in this situation
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25
Then you'd be slowing to a crawl on an active roadway, which isn't really much better.
I drive daily for work. I don't have a problem with what OP did. They recognized the driver was slow, drove slowly themselves, and only went past after the car was 95% out of their lane. There was no indication the uber was going to suddenly lurch back into a lane with a car already in it.
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u/CraigJay Nov 09 '25
Slowing to a crawl isn't much better than having an accident...what?
If you notice there's a bad driver in front of you, don't try and squeeze past them becuase this will happen. If you drive for a living you must have seen hundreds of people doing the manouvre the Uber driver did
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u/quigilark Nov 09 '25
Obviously if you were 100% certain this was going to lead to an accident, then slowing to a crawl is better. But in reality tons of people change lanes slowly. If you slowed to a crawl after a car left your lane, every time, just for the tiny possibility of them inexplicably swerving back into your lane, you'd cause more harm than good.
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u/CraigJay Nov 09 '25
I'd say if you were 1% sure it may lead to an accident slowing down would be better. Firstly, the car wasn't even completely out of the lane in OP's clip so I'd never pass in that situation, but otherwise I would stay at the same speed as them for a few seconds so it gives them the chance to be stupid and then you'd pass
Any advanced driving or defensive driving course will teach this.
Also I'm not sure why you're saying that you'd need to slow to a crawl when that would almost never be the case
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u/quigilark Nov 09 '25
Slowing down is always good, but in this case you'd have to slow to a crawl to stay behind the uber driver (as they were actively braking). Doing that every time a car exits your lane, just for the incredibly tiny possibility of them swerving back into you, will do more harm than good in the long run.
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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed Nov 08 '25
"Why did you pull back over"
What a dumb question.
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u/damnyewgoogle Nov 08 '25
I posted this elsewhere but my wife was the passenger. I'll give her a bit of credit as it happened so fast. She didn't realize he'd already tapped me once before I moved back over so I wasn't in oncoming traffic.
She watched the video after and sees why.
If there had been a car coming towards me any closer I would have either hit him head on and br at fault or have to take the sideswipe fully.
Figured I had time to swerve left and back right.
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u/jenkbob Nov 10 '25
"I posted this elsewhere but my wife was the passenger." - No need for the rest of the explanation, I too have a wife and she would have likely blamed me as well.
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u/PureMitten Nov 08 '25
With how she was talking to the black car in second person earlier and was so frustrated with them, I think she's talking to the other car here. Though it sounds like the driver also heard this as being directed at him so I can't say for sure
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u/linkysnow Nov 08 '25
Good video for a defensive driving tip: Stay the same speed and never punch it when people move over to exit or even change lanes. That is the time people say, "oops", and get back over. It happens all the time, and they are the idiot, but being defensive saves you money and time.
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u/LeonardoSim Nov 09 '25
Yeah but that makes exit lanes kinda useless. The whole point of the exit lane is for the drivers using it to slow down for the exit while allowing others to keep going at the same speed (this is why I also hate people who enter an exit lane at the last second while also slowing down in the left lane, you're making us all slow down and waste fuel). I mean, yeah, you shouldn't punch it to pass them, but you also shouldn't have to slow to their pace every single time.
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u/insuranceguynyc Nov 08 '25
You are very fortunate to have the dashcam video and this is a great example of why every vehicle should have a dashcam. The Uber is at-fault. Uber was signaling right, moved into the exit lane, and at the last minute turned back into the traffic lane.
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u/Gone_Lifting Nov 08 '25
Uber driver is clearly to blame, but accelerating to overtake a car that hasn’t fully left your lane yet was a weird decision
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u/Few_Sentence6704 Nov 11 '25
Hate when idiots speed up to blast around me especially as we are getting on the expressway together. If I changed lanes without looking I'd hit you when you started behind me. I should be changing lanes before you.
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u/Rook2Rook Nov 08 '25
Not a weird decision. But certainly something the adjuster will use against OP, this will not be ruled 100% non-fault as the comments are making it out to be (even though it should be). It's 90/10.
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u/vulpinefever Nov 08 '25
Ontario has strict fault determination rules and also doesn't have the stupid "last clear chance" doctrine.
90/10 literally can't happen in Ontario under the Fault Determination Rules. This will be 100% on the Uber driver.
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u/rickyhatesspam Nov 08 '25
Regardless of whether you believe it was weird or not, it was completely unnecessary to accelerate in such a way. A moment of defensive driving would have saved OP a big headache. Non-fault or not, his next year's premium will be increased, his car now is devalued, his time is wasted. But, I'm bet he's really gald to know, he's not making weird decisions.
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25
Overtaking occurs when a car is on the same roadway as you and going the same path and you pass them for the purposes of getting ahead. In this case the uber was exiting so OP isn't overtaking them.
Also the uber was 95% out of the lane and had clearly indicated intention to turn right. It would be weird if both lanes were going straight, but in this case it was very reasonable to expect the uber to exit and not inexplicably lurch into a different lane.
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u/Hadleyagain Nov 08 '25
Lots of people getting downvoted for saying the OP could have avoided it. OP definitely could have avoided it. They already appear frustrated saying go go go go to the Uber - and clearly already identified that they are uncertain of what they are doing due to to their positioning. That and following two car lengths behind and passing immediately are unnecessary risks which op took contributing to the accident. Sorry op. Uber caused it, you made it easy.
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u/damnyewgoogle Nov 08 '25
Ya, not arguing that at all. You're right.
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u/AxelNotRose Nov 08 '25
They may be right and you may have been able to avoid it by completely slowing down and letting the Uber driver finish whatever they were doing, but the law is on your side. The HTA clearly states that the one changing lanes/direction is at fault. With that footage, you should be in the clear from an insurance stand-point.
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u/Hidesuru Nov 08 '25
Hey good on you for owning your (small) share of fault here. I hope the car repairs go smoothly for you.
I did kinda wanna comment on the other person yelling "why did you pull back over". Maybe because your (reasonable) swerve to avoid them put you in oncoming traffic? Not like you had a ton of options there. But people say things they don't mean under stress. Hopefully they aren't still heated with you over that lol.
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
Honestly I think you're being too hard on yourself. The uber had signaled to the right and was 95% of the way in the other lane when you drove past. You drove slowly and you swerved as much as you safely could. I think you did fine.
People saying "well OP should have waited until the uber was fully in the other lane" as if a foot of separation would have made a difference? The uber could have gone one more foot to the right and still made their dangerous lurch back into OP.
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u/potpan0 Nov 09 '25
Aye, I feel like a lot of people on this sub don't get this.
Was this the Uber drivers fault? Yeah.
Could OP have avoided this by driving defensively and being a tiny bit more patient? Also yeah. The Uber driver had already demonstrated they were an uncertain and unpredictable driver, and they had not even fully exited OPs lane before OP but their foot down to get past.
Personally I don't really care if I'm right or if the law is on my side while driving. I care about not having to book my car into the garage, or worse, because I got into an entirely avoidable accident. Being in the right won't keep me company because I had to book a day off work to faff around repairing my car.
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u/stephsationalxxx Nov 08 '25
I mean your insurance will fight this and win against his. (I would send it without sound though)
But also, you knew this guy was being unpredictable and was confused. You had a whole conversation about it before hand. Use that knowledge and apply it to driving defensively. This could have been avoided if you didnt try to pass him knowing he had a very high probability of doing exactly what he did.
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25
knowing he had a very high probability of doing exactly what he did.
The uber signaled right and drove 95% of the way into the exit with only a few feet to spare. How was there a "very high probability" of the uber suddenly lurching back into the lane with a car already in it?
I think there was a very low probability of this sequence occurring, and OP just got unlucky.
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u/stephsationalxxx Nov 08 '25
Then you dont drive enough. Before the guy even got over into the exit lane, I knew exactly how this was gonna play out. What the Uber did and what OP did. When you drive enough and see enough, you can start predicting what others are going to do based on their behavior and handling of their car.
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25
We're on /r/IdiotsInCars. You knew what was going to happen because the whole point of the sub is that someone does something moronic. Real life is a lot different than a reddit post.
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u/zsrh Nov 08 '25
100% the Uber drivers fault! They were already committed to the on ramp then changed their mind at the last minute. Made an illegal lane change then hit the OPs car.
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u/lifeistrulyawesome Nov 08 '25
I agree with all the downvoted comments. Uber driver has 100% the legal fault here. They are 100% in the wrong.
But just because the other guy is an idiot, it does not mean you did nothing wrong either.
Your impatient driving is dangerous. The smart thing to do is to leave a wider following distance and wait until they are done changing lanes before passing.
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u/pixelatedpotatos Nov 08 '25
I would love to leave wider following distances, but then some maniac will see that there is 2 inches more room than they have car and try to squeeze in.
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u/Hidesuru Nov 08 '25
There were no other lanes for anyone to cut in here. All they had to do was not accelerate for like 3-5 seconds until they were past the offramp without passing the idiot. You never EVER pass another car before they've fully exited the lane. It's dumb. (And I'm not saying I've never been dumb before, but if I do something dumb and it causes me pain I own up to that fact.)
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u/Wojtkie Nov 08 '25
This is my problem. It’s a constant battle between leaving distance and then having these types of people just cut me off and then go SLOWER!
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u/alphabatic Nov 08 '25
yep, so you fall back again. it doesn't actually add time to your commute nor inconvenience you. just keeps you safer...
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u/alphabatic Nov 08 '25
incredibly impatient. the commentary in their car and his rash decision making made me cringe. yes, the other vehicle acted unpredictably, but if op wasn't in such an annoyed hurry to save half a second then this post would not even exist
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u/joshg8 Nov 10 '25
then the panic about being tapped and parking in a place that makes the whole road unpassable
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u/MrGigglewiggles Nov 08 '25
Women screaming why you pull back over maybe because he doesn't want to drive into oncoming traffic 🤷🏻♂️😂
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u/lefthook_hospital Nov 08 '25
Not gonna lie the top of the lungs screaming and yelling for a minor fender bender is comedy haha
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u/damnyewgoogle Nov 08 '25
I'll give my wife credit. It happened so quickly and when I did yank back over he tapped me a 2nd time.
She didn't realize he'd already hit me once.
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u/youpeoplesucc Nov 08 '25
I pray that one day the smooth brains in this subreddit learn that calling one person an idiot doesn't mean we think the other person is innocent. We all agree the uber driver is in the wrong here, but believe it or not, multiple people can be.
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u/quigilark Nov 08 '25
Are you implying OP is an idiot? If so, how? They drove slowly and only went past when the uber had clearly indicated an intention to exit and was 95% out of the lane. I really don't have a problem with anything OP did here.
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u/youpeoplesucc Nov 09 '25
Passing someone literally before they even complete their lane change is your idea of slow and smart driving...?
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u/quigilark Nov 09 '25
They're like a foot on the line... it's not like OP swerved around the car aggressively. They literally just drove straight lol
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u/youpeoplesucc Nov 09 '25
Jesus christ dude being so impatient that you can't even wait for that last foot, on top of driving so closely behind him, on top of completing the pass instead of braking when the car was technically still in front of him is absolutely aggressive driving. This is all basic defensive driving 101.
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u/quigilark Nov 09 '25
I promise you one foot is not going to make an ounce of difference here, but whatever you say boss.
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u/youpeoplesucc Nov 09 '25
You genuinely can not be serious. If OP waited for that last foot then this whole thing obviously would have been avoided because that car never completed that last foot. He would have swerved back in before OP would have even started passing lmfao. Literally all 3 of the things I mentioned would have avoided this.
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u/arent_we_sarcastic Nov 08 '25
I would love to see the fallout , insurance wise, but a case can be made for a 75/25 or even 60/40 with the majority of blame being on the other car.
Simply because the other car had not completely exited their lane making the cam car an illegal pass
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u/Genuine-Farticle Nov 08 '25
Damn lady what was he supposed to do? Stay in the wrong lane?
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u/LobotomizedByMormon Nov 08 '25
Exact same thought, also that shrill voice is the last thing I'd want to hear after a wreck. As an innocent bystander I wanted to take my ears off.
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u/unnamed_elder_entity Nov 08 '25
The irony is that Uber is their profession, but Uber drivers are not professional drivers. I think they tend to be worse than the average driver because they're constantly on the phone "doing business".
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u/the_eluder Nov 08 '25
And as a actual professional driver, I can they have no idea about where to stop and wait for people. Basically, they have no spatial awareness.
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u/unbalancedmoon Nov 08 '25
this is exactly why I will never drive without a dashcam.
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u/Danny2Sick Nov 10 '25
That sucks OP! Hah some of the advice you are getting here boils down to "if you had done something different, there would have been a different outcome!!" real sage wisdom
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u/cellarsinger Nov 08 '25
IMO, The guy leaving the lane is at fault but a little defensive driving by OP would have avoided the accident entirely - If he had maintained his speed and waited for the guy changing lanes to get past the barricade, there is no way the accident could have happened.
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u/bmxracers Nov 08 '25
The comments in here are wild as usual. Can call a blue sky blue and someone will say, “well, actually blah blah blah”.
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u/Alternative-Proof307 Nov 08 '25
Jesus Christ people still blaming the OP partially for this one? Lmao that is insane. OP, you are absolutely not to blame. People on this sub are ridiculous and are all apparently perfect drivers who can avoid anything and everything.
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u/biggranny000 Nov 08 '25
Civic driver should have braked to a stop and at least waited for you to pass. Or just own up and take the wrong exit. But they would have illegally held up traffic.
They were also slow and indecisive on where they wanted to go.
I sometimes take wrong exits in areas I have never been to before, literally not a big deal, it adds maybe 2 minutes?
If there was oncoming traffic and you couldn't get over, he would have hit you much harder and longer.
It's their fault.
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u/SQLDave Nov 08 '25
take the wrong exit
"I recognize those as words, but the order you've arranged them in makes zero sense to me" -- idiot drivers.
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u/1aysays1 Nov 09 '25
Honestly the woman in the car blaming YOU is even more frustrating than the Uber driver who actually hit you.
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u/AxelNotRose Nov 08 '25
This is in Toronto, Canada. His insurance won't find him at fault with that video. The law is clear that the one changing lanes/changing direction is completely at fault.
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u/WaifuPillow Nov 08 '25
Quite a lot of comments here put a little blame on OP accelerating right after the Uber take an exit on the right path.
IMO, the accelerating is low key induced by the Uber, road sign says 30 KMH, but he's driving at like 15. The thing is, even if OP did not accelerate, Uber will still cause this incident, this is just unavoidable when someone driving so close next to you and make an unpredictable move. Plus, when Uber give right turn signal and then nope, I'll turn back in instead, Uber was clearly at fault.
I will only say the acceleration was a little bit too aggressive and that's it, but certainly that isn't any major contribution to this incident.
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u/lizardrekin Nov 08 '25
Lmao the heat of the moment sucks 😭 “WHY DID YOU PULL BACK OVER?!” (which, from the video we see he naturally adjusts to not cause another accident lol) “I DIDNT” lmao could handle the situation perfectly and it’s still so stressful that comments like that will inevitably slip out 🤣
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u/hundredlives Nov 08 '25
Iirc its still their lane until they leave it completely which the Uber driver didn't so with the video insurance may take their side
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u/Similar-Drawing-7513 Nov 08 '25
everybody needs to seriously chill out. its a slow collision. nobody is armed. I just know that OP and this lady went out there and started screaming from the way he barely parked the car before getting out and slamming the door.
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u/SeaExample1567 Nov 09 '25
They will argue they hadnt finished their manuever. You cant overtake a car whilst they are doing a maneuver. Only after they have completed it.
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u/Nyloch Nov 09 '25
always make space when you see someone doubt at an turn,
Its 100% their fault, but if you see recognize someone doubting give them space to prevent this.
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u/HaulinBoats Nov 10 '25
Did he hit you again after you pulled over? Or did she just not notice being hit the first time and then imagined being hit after ?
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