I think they should have a man with a red flag walking in front of them no faster than 4 mph to warn other road users. Interested in a job?
Defensive driving, like every other physical protection, doesn’t always work. The “you” in your example could come back with a dented car despite defensive driving, or even from an accident which took place while the car was parked.
Last year defensive driving turned “Nava badly hurt or dead in accident where dude exiting roundabout from central lane didn’t see her car and rammed straight into the driver’s door” into “Nava’s car in body shop for a month because the frontal bumper needed to be replaced and had to be ordered - and made to order (long live zero-stock policies); the rest of the frontal left corner also needed to be replaced”. The looks in the faces of the cop who was berating me for not doing exactly everything I had, in fact, done, and of his partner would have been priceless if I hadn’t been kind of irritated at being accused of not doing it instead of asked if I had done it (also still coming down from the adrenaline high).
That is a technically true statement. Technically true statements are those which state a fact so wrenched out of context that it implies the opposite of the truth. Technically true statements should be avoided at all times if sense and understanding are the objects of communication.
This thread is hilarious. A human-operated truck crashes into an autonomous car, and somehow people think it proves autonomous cars are dangerous.
How easy it is to forget that >30,000 Americans are killed by human drivers each year…
On the contrary, reversing trucks should have a person walking behind them with a red flag to warn other road users – and the truck driver.
I agree! The driver of that semi truck should have been given a lot more training!