Car driver pays the price for ignoring oncoming semi

How about pull the heck over and rest!! When a person is tired, they're not mentally in the game and make (or don't) good decisions.

When are we as a society going to realize that this stuff isn't making things better?? Personal responsibility, common sense and some old fashioned courtesy... can we get a vehicle with all of that included??

 

That's flat BS. Go behind the wheel while sleepy is worse than being drunk.

IF Anyone was too stupid to drive all those miles sleepy, thats me. A thousand miles to make delivery by sunrise after working all day to load the #### thing. Logs? HA we fix them later.

 

Only if the car was built before 2007 I guess,when they started mandating a bunch of stuff.

 

On the other hand, his insurance and workman's comp is probably gold plated. He could probably take the rest of the year off at full salary as long as he has some sort of pain.

I don't know if I could anticipate THAT much stupid. For idiots, they sure are good at inventing new ways to be dumb.

On the other hand, I could think of a dozen reasons why leaving the house in the morning every day is a BAD idea, sadly I don't get paid for that no matter how much safer it is.

The problem is 90% of traffic accidents are never analyzed, and blame is rarely assigned, let alone prosecuted. Even with all this evidence, I'd wager the driver only gets a ticket, maybe a suspension.

One of my favorite TV shows right now is Air Disasters, where the NTSB shows up at a crash and reconstructs the entire aircraft to find the cause of the accident. Most traffic accidents are put on the shoulders of whoever was driving fastest or scored worst on the breathalyzer.

Okay, I had this on a sub truck and I was curious, wanted to try it out and my conclusion? It was the scariest thing I'd ever done.

Within a DAY I was relying on the system more than my own judgement. I used cruise control at sub highway speeds on a rural road and just let it lock onto the vehicle in front of me. I used the lane departure system to "steer by ear", (wander left, the left speaker beeps, wander right, the right speaker.)

All my experience and training melted away into laziness within 8 hours of getting "comfortable" with the systems. All that came to a white knuckled halt when I blew through a red light without stopping! (Thank god it was a rural road with no cross traffic!) the truck in front of me had plenty of time to go through the green but it was yellow before the trailer cleared and here I am 200' behind and not watching the light!

I immediately turned off every "aid" I was "allowed to" and spent the rest of my shift driving "normally". I am terrified of how people will drive when they become overly accustomed to these systems or can't really drive in the first place.

 

Always driving like there's nobody on Earth but them.

 

Internet friend of mine sent me this gem a few days ago. Guy claims his (name brand accident avoidance tech) didn't work because rain.

A parking lot sign bisected the hood up to the windshield!!! How do you not see it? Because he was probably going in a random direction in an empty lot at speed.

 

Waste of a perfectly good Subaru Forester!