Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

This happened in Norway, near Hallingdal.

Why you think this is a reason to hate Euro technology is a complete mystery to me. If that trucker had killed the child, he wouldn't have been at fault. But you can be sure it would have had an enormous impact on him for the rest of his life. Even the driver who recorded the incident was trembling afterwards.

I previously mentioned something that happened just a few days ago. A car pulled up just in front of a Dutch truck on the autobahn, the Dutch trucker warned him by flashing his lights, and the idiot in the car reacted by hitting the brakes. That caused the truck to perform an automatic emergency braking, and unfortunately a trucker behind him didn't react fast enough, or was to close and he crashed in to the first truck.



The display on the dashboard shows the truck activated the emergency brake.

 

You assume the driver wouldn't have been able to stop from hitting the kid , I don't assume that .
And the second truck that rammed the first truck , his life looks like it might have changed a bit also . Maybe without this faulty panic stop he wouldn't have rear ended the first truck .
I think euro trucks can work the bugs out of this tech before we adopt it .

 

I know he couldn't have stopped in time. Look at that kid, he had to run away from the truck, and even then it was a matter of a few feet. The trucker would have reacted tenths of seconds later, and that would have been fatal.

The second truck didn't keep enough distance., and it didn't have automatic brakes either.

There are no bugs, the driver of the first truck was very happy with the way his truck reacted. Rear ending a traffic jam is a very common horrible accident, modern EU trucks can avoid that by braking automatically if the trucker doesn't react on time.

 

If only you could buy a DAF with wonderful ventilated seats ...........

 

You don't know if the driver would have hit the kid , you don't even know if he was already on the brakes shortening reaction time , I know I wouldn't have been going so fast around a blind corner passing a bus .
And as for the second example , if the first truck didn't have auto panic brakes maybe driver 2 wouldn't have hit him , but auto brake can't decide how hard to brake , and full panic brake isn't always smart or necessary

 

If you were a real professional driver you would understand , you would think back on all your experience, realizing how these auto panic brakes could cause more problems then they cure.
I'll trust a professional driver to make the right decision , you can count on uncertain tech

 

Well, I've seen more then enough horrific tailgate accidents to know that professional drivers can make horrible mistakes. Like I wrote before, this technology is being implemented on all cars and trucks over here. There's nothing uncertain about this technology, it works and has been proven.

 

When it works that's great , when a truck rearends another truck because of this faulty system it's the drivers fault .
The tech can never be at fault

 

The only thing with traction/stability control I've spent any amount of time in was my pickup and I hated it. Normally if I hit a strip of slush on the road I'll just take my foot off the throttle a bit and gradually steer out of it. That pickup would hammer the brakes hard enough to throw me into the steering wheel. How am I supposed to react to a situation when the vehicle does whatever it wants? I got annoyed to the point I'd just shut it off completely during winter.

 

you've seen wrecks is a bs response , I've driven almost 4 million miles in semi trucks and have never been in an accident , NOT ONE , not my fault or anyone else's fault .
Your I've seen many wrecks experience means nothing to me