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This sounds nice but you should NOT stop on a highway. This could've killed both + whoever slams into them. People die all the time even when stopped on the em

• jsight 5y ago
  Sometimes it can still be the safest thing to do. It sounds like that was one of those times.
• eloff 5y ago
  So you suggest doing nothing? Letting the car continue until it leaves the road at the first corner? Potentially causing a head on if there is no dividing barrier? Tesla driver did the right thing, and is a hero in my books.
  • Griffinsauce 5y ago
    Call the police, stay nearby with warning lights perhaps? You could even take the middle option and slow them down to a safe speed. It's an extraordinary situation, there are no well-proven answers here. It is however well proven that stopping on a highway kills people, if they had caused a pile-up this would be a very different story. Its baffling to me that you and others (downvoting) are so convinced that this was a safe action because the outcome was good this time.
    • eloff 5y ago
      It's not a safe action. But it's also not safe to do nothing. I think the driver made the right call (and with the benefit of hindsight it was in this case.) Doing nothing would have resulted in a high speed accident with certainty of 1. This could have involved a head on or left wreckage on the highway. The driver took a chance on a risky intervention and it paid off.