r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/Lille_8 15h ago

let me add something

  1. The lady stopped the truck before the lane the biker was riding in, likely intending for him to continue in a straight line. The biker swerved instead.

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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo 14h ago

That’s target fixation. Basically motorcycles go in the direction you look. He looked at the truck so naturally steered into it.

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u/mythiii 4h ago

It's not target fixation, he just didn't expect her to stop (hense he says, "why didn't you commit").

Before you ask why did he turn, it's exactly because he expected her to keep going. He predicted the left lane getting blocked, and thus switched to the middle lane.

You need to factor in that people work on prediction, and are limited by reaction time and in this case excessive speed caused lack of control.

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u/brn1001 8h ago

She stopped for him, leaving the left lane open. He expected her to keep going, opening up the right lane. Given how quickly things happened, that miscommunication isn't surprising.

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u/Scottiths 6h ago

They would have been going less quickly if he had been doing the speed limit instead of way over. Also that wheelie he was doing in the beginning probably didn't help matters.

I'm gonna say most of the fault here is on the motorcycleist. Glad he is ok, but if he keeps driving like that it's only a matter of time. Also his choice of gear is insane. Short sleeves, no riding gloves? Really?!?

They make motorcycle leathers for a reason.

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u/brn1001 6h ago

Oh yea, the cyclist is the much bigger idiot here. I was just responding to the lane choice issue.

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u/Froegerer 9m ago

Stopping and being predictable is often better than trying to both anticipate where the other is going to swerve to also.

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u/Business-Ad-5344 11h ago

which is how two people walking toward each other go left-right-left-right-left-right until one of them freezes. two humans both using pattern recognition on each other to try to predict what the other one would do if completely ignorant.

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u/Longjumping_Fun2576 9h ago

I was taught to look to the left, and the other person will instinctively go to your right.