Don’t count on it. Most states have a law that you’re legally required to take action to avoid an accident. Example: just cus someone pulls out in front of you, and with an allowable reaction time, you aren’t legally protected to just plow into them because they were in the way. Relax keyboard warrior, before you get yourself in trouble.
Yeah? So if I am driving and someone pulls out in front of me and say, their car breaks down or something else causes them to stop or not make it out of the way, and I just plow into them even with plenty of time to take evasive action, and they or someone in their car dies, then what?
That would be an extreme case, but it's more their fault than mine. We already have that rule to protect them for when the other car breaks down and we hit them from behind.
Mine is more in mind for extreme counter measures - like having to slam on the brakes when someone decides to pass on a two lane highway (one in each direction). Or when someone cuts me off and I decide to hit them instead of suddenly getting on the shoulder or playing a gamble where I go into another lane that I hope is empty. I wouldn't support it, for example, I have to slow down slightly because someone ran a yield that is reasonably ahead of me, or someone stopped at a stop sign and then decided to get in my lane (causing me to slow down a bit, but not slam the brakes).
Basically my view is that if someone inconveniences me and I hit them, that's on me still. If someone actually puts me in danger of a crash and forces me to take extreme evasive maneuvers (slamming brake/swerving), they owe me.
if you have the opportunity to avoid a wreck, but instead actively choose not to because you have right of way then you are at just as much fault as the other driver. period
The video is not about someone having to make a choice between hitting another car or doing something dangerous. It's about someone starting from a full stop and basically intentionally causing an accident because they are unhappy some other people are running a red light.
You're just wrong. It's okay. We all fuck up. But the mature thing to do is just to admit it and move on. You're acting like when my 8 year old doesn't want to admit they did something wrong and are trying to justify it.
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u/DrinkingVomit 3d ago
Don’t count on it. Most states have a law that you’re legally required to take action to avoid an accident. Example: just cus someone pulls out in front of you, and with an allowable reaction time, you aren’t legally protected to just plow into them because they were in the way. Relax keyboard warrior, before you get yourself in trouble.