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>the fault of a single-lane rear end collision is always the fault of the following vehicle. You are just plain wrong. Tons of people who thought they were "r

>the fault of a single-lane rear end collision is always the fault of the following vehicle. You are just plain wrong. Tons of people who thought they were "right" like you have gotten rear ended by doing things like putting on a blinker, slowing for a turn and then at the last second getting back into the travel lane in time to get hit by whoever was behind them. Or they stopped in the travel lane on a blind for some dumb reason and some trucker traveling at/below the speed limit (and with the data logging to prove it, because that's how commercial trucks are these days) comes along and can't stop in time. Or they pulled out in front of other traffic and didn't accelerate appropriately (I hit someone that did this once, they paid). > Always. if they were following at a safe distance, they would necessarily have had time to stop. that is what it means to follow at a safe distance. The world doesn't run based on this circular logic. Insurers are quite reasonable about this sort of thing. They all know that they all win if the more deviant driver pays and winds up with the black mark on their record. Moreover, while you may very well dodge financial liability because the other guy can't prove it was your fault, the responding officer may very well read between the lines and issue you some sorts of moving violations that you can't dodge with court and will have the same effective net financial result. >“refrain from personal attacks” no. they earned what i said. Well since we're going there... It is really a shame that drivers of your bent don't more often cross paths with someone prone to violent road rage. Society as a whole will benefit if two bad actors wind up off the roads in a "papa loved mamma" sort of way.

naikrovek 4y ago
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- dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  >what THE HELL do you think "single-lane" means? your example is not a single-lane scenario, is it? Have you ever actually driven on two lane (one in each direction) roads? Whether you have or haven't I'll have you know the normal way things work is that someone slows for a turn (usually crowding to the right if their vehicle length and nature of the turn permits) the person behind them crowds toward the center line and passes them just as they're turning in. If the person turning aborted without warning at the last second and got into the middle of the lane it would necessitate some serious braking by the following person and maybe cause a rear ending depending on the speed of the road. Nobody is changing lanes during any of this. Please never drive. You don't understand how the roads actually work in practice.
  - dang 4y ago
    You broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. We've had to warn you about this more than once in the past. Moreover, you've been breaking them repeatedly in other contexts recently too. This is not cool, and if you keep it up we are going to have to ban you. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- dang 4y ago
  You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. We've had to warn you about this in the past. Moreover, you've been breaking them repeatedly in other contexts recently too. This is not cool, and if you keep it up we are going to have to ban you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977864 If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

naikrovek 4y ago

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dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>what THE HELL do you think "single-lane" means? your example is not a single-lane scenario, is it? Have you ever actually driven on two lane (one in each direction) roads? Whether you have or haven't I'll have you know the normal way things work is that someone slows for a turn (usually crowding to the right if their vehicle length and nature of the turn permits) the person behind them crowds toward the center line and passes them just as they're turning in. If the person turning aborted without warning at the last second and got into the middle of the lane it would necessitate some serious braking by the following person and maybe cause a rear ending depending on the speed of the road. Nobody is changing lanes during any of this. Please never drive. You don't understand how the roads actually work in practice.
- dang 4y ago
  You broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. We've had to warn you about this more than once in the past. Moreover, you've been breaking them repeatedly in other contexts recently too. This is not cool, and if you keep it up we are going to have to ban you. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
dang 4y ago
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. We've had to warn you about this in the past. Moreover, you've been breaking them repeatedly in other contexts recently too. This is not cool, and if you keep it up we are going to have to ban you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977864 If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.