Father's Advice To His Young Daughter (dashcam)

Accidents happen.
CreamKsays...

I think he was the only one following speed limits, it's just customary to take everything out of the car in Russia.. You know, that used to be the only way to get around up to 90s, take your Lada 1100 and bolt the pedal to the metal, go as fast as it can and you might just go over speed limit. Now that there are better cars, the attitude really hasn't changed.

A10anissaid:

"Oh, and don't forget sweetie; Hogging the middle lane makes cars weave around you, and that, too, can cause an accident."

RFlaggsays...

I was expecting a far worse outcome, like him crashing with her as he tells her to save herself...

As for the middle lane, that is the travel lane. The outer lane is the merge/exit lane and shouldn't be used by slower traffic when there are 3 or more lanes in order to allow safer merging and exiting, especially when there are 4 or more lanes. Passing traffic shouldn't use the merge/exit lane, that is for the passing and inner lanes. He was in the rightmost of the middle lanes, which at least on right side drive countries like the US and Russia, would be for the slower through traffic. Nothing more irritating (well there are, but you know what I mean) than driving down the exit lane to get to an exit and deciding not to pass the slow car in front of you as you can't be sure to get around them before the exit, and then find they are just going straight anyhow.

It doesn't look like there was an exit there, just the driver of the car the motorcycle tried to avoid was making a dash to the breakdown lane across two lanes, and the motorcycle was going way too fast. I'm guessing the father here blocks two lanes to help protect the motorcyclist.

CelebrateApathysays...

First off, given the fact that he was going at least 10mph slower than everyone he was likely not even going the speed limit. Second, I'm tired of people thinking they are being safer by driving slowly. The safest speed one can drive at is the pace at which the rest of traffic is moving.

Too slow, or too fast, are both recipes for an accident. People need to stop driving like they are the only ones on the road and that they are somehow special enough fix what they see as wrongness.

If you want to be safe on the road pay attention to all the variables around you, which includes assholes that you will piss off and likely encourage to be even more stupid by driving slower than the rest of traffic in the middle of the highway..

That being said, no part of this accident was likely even related to this driver.

CreamKsaid:

I think he was the only one following speed limits, it's just customary to take everything out of the car in Russia.. You know, that used to be the only way to get around up to 90s, take your Lada 1100 and bolt the pedal to the metal, go as fast as it can and you might just go over speed limit. Now that there are better cars, the attitude really hasn't changed.

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