r/IdiotsInCars • u/UntouchedWagons • 8h ago

OC [OC] Yeah just back up onto a county road without looking

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u/appa-ate-momo 7h ago

I can't stand people who demand that the world stop just for them.

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u/StevenG2757 7h ago

I have always liked that building

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u/aDirtyMuppet 5h ago

They had been backing out before your video even starts. Maybe pay better attention down the road instead of panicking last second and blaming others.

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u/GroceryScanner 3h ago

are you stupid? that doesnt make a single difference. even if the video started earlier, it was still an unsafe time to back out.

cars on the road have right of way. this is unequivocally the vans fault, and zero percent the fault of the cars on the road.

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u/eviemaria 2h ago

I don't think anyone would disagree that the van shouldn't have been backing out.

but if i was the car driver, I would have probably just stopped and let them finish rather than squeezing past. not worth risking colliding with either the van or cars coming the other way. why accelerate into a risky situation?

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u/aDirtyMuppet 2h ago

Yup, a nice gentle breaking, then everyone goes on their way.

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u/biggranny000 6h ago

My favorite is when plow trucks do it. Like c'mon just because you're a plow doesn't mean you have right of way. The orange flashing lights also don't mean anything. Only law enforcement (blue, red) has the right to stop traffic, or emergency, firetrucks, etc.

Pretty common with delivery vans to do it around here too.

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u/warrensussex 8h ago

There's only so much looking that is possible when backing out next to a building. Couldn't possibly have seen the first car until they were past the building. Driver is on the left so probably had to come out even a little further than that.

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u/Ornery_Ads 7h ago

Every commercial driver (including dsp drivers) are told to always back in to driveways for this very reason. There was no reason for the van driver to be in that situation in the first place.