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ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
[deleted]ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There are medicines for that… 😳
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Inertia says that the log is moving roughly the same speed as the truck, so I’ll apply the brakes and move to the right.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
might have hit the ground and bounced
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Sure, but it’s skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.
mrslt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stop, lol. The momentum from the truck is carrying the log forward. Realistically, it isn’t being shot directly into the windshield like a cruise missile.
Physics!
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never noticed that the logs fell off the side and bounced! The log would quickly slow and the car would still be hauling ass, right?
And for those of you scared of log trucks, nothing can make a log slide off the top while driving down the road. They are jammed on there with friction.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I have enough trust towards brake technology that I assume your car can stop faster than a log. I ass-pulled that assumption tho.
Owlboi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
i’d argue a bouncing log takes a lot longer to slow down than your average car hitting the brakes
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Before this happened I would have given myself double the distance to the truck avoiding the situation completely
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Enter a Sherlock Holmes-esque state of hyper awareness. Calculate the distance to the log based on parallax and distance between my eyes. Calculate time to impact given relative speeds (this calculation costs precious microseconds but is indispensable). Note the positions of every car around and the age and apparent gender of every driver. Adjust the steering wheel so that the log impacts right between myself and my passenger. Upon impact, adjust steering based on road position and positions and probable reactions of other drivers to bring my car safely to a stop without causing further damage.
Pyro@programming.dev 2 months ago
Same here except one difference. I would immediately get impaled right as I start the calculations.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
kaidezee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Turn on the Improbability Drive. And certainly not improbably watch out for sperm whales.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Activate the Omega 13 device!
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In every universe, Alan Rickman is just tired of this shit.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Underrated roles for both Allens
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not again
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Passenger’s seat perspective. So from that angle there is nothing to do. It is always best to relax. There is a reason drunks often survive the crashes they cause that kill others. It is kinda hard to do in the moment without practice. In the crash that broke my neck and back, there are only a few moments of very hazy dream like memories that I’ve recalled over the years since. One of those was that I somehow tried to put up my hands or some way I tried to catch myself as I hit the jeep on a bike at 29 MPH. I only really remember thinking for a moment, “fucking never do that again” next moment I’m with some paramedics talking about getting me stable enough to transport and trying to get someone to call that could show up at hospital. I was only able to remember phone numbers and my address from when I was in highschool 10 years before and 2k miles away. I felt super stressed because I knew I was doing it but couldn’t figure it out. I finally remembered my sister’s number and relaxed, staying unconscious for 3 hours after.
That is what it is really like with severe head and neck trauma. Your conscious mind is quite disconnected from your limbic system. If you die, you likely won’t even know. I had no idea how close I had come to dying until many things that came out of the personal injury case that followed and stuff since then…
For me, I wouldn’t follow that kind of truck closely or casually at all. I’m aware of how it is loaded and the disconnect between the loader operator and low pay driver, on a truck likely held together with JB Weld and duct tape. But yeah, just relax. If you die, you die. No big deal. You won’t even know it happened, so why stress.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have nothing to add except, fuck drunk drivers, I hope they all crash safely into a ditch.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Hope you have recovered from or, are recovering from the injuries.
rosco385@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Shit myself.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Realistically, same, right after being crayoned by the log.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hard swerve to the right, and duck.
GargleBlaster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What good is a bird in this situation?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hello. They can fly.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wouldn’t have been anywhere near that close to a fckn logging truck of all things.
jimmux@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m surrounded by forestry operations where I live. I can’t go anywhere without getting stuck behind a logging truck on winding and often slippery broads. It’s amazing how complacent I’ve become with these things.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you had to think about it, you’re dead.
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I would let myself die because this scene is so far removed from the laws of physics that I spent my life studying and my entire career would now be completely worthless.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 months ago
What would realistically happen when the logs fall off the truck? They still have their forward speed, so braking should be enough to avoid them, right?
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They would probably never fall off in the first place, which is why you’ve never heard of anything remotely like this ever happening. Usually, there’s two supports, one in the front and one in the back. Even if one of these large steel posts somehow fails, the other one will hold the logs long enough for the driver to stop the car. They’ve almost certainly tested stuff like this from a standstill while designing those beds. Same principle holds for ratchet straps, although there will be far more than 2 straps, making catastrophic failure even rarer, and those would be routinely inspected for damage.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They’re not going to go very far forward due to friction, and stopping distance will be longer on the wet road, so I think steering to the right would be the better bet. Don’t brake or you’ll lose traction, just swerve a bit and aim for the grass on the edge of the roadway, hopefully it’ll slow you down while getting away from the logs.
manicdave@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s sad that mythbusters isn’t running anymore. It’d be interesting to see them trying to recreate this scene with a remotely controlled car.
If there’s any inexplicably wealthy science adjacent YouTubers reading this, hire a disused runway and steal this idea. Once you’ve proven tyres have more grip than wood, try it on the grass next to the runway or headon for your viral money shot.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Logout.
Oggyb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then treestart.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Ragequit
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dodge right and hope for the best trying to control the car in the weeds. Wrecking in dirt seems somewhat better odds than being speared by a thousand pound log.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Having seen this movie, I have never and will never drive behind any kind of cylinder hauler, ever.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This movie did more for safe following distance than decades of drivers ed.
nuko147@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Alt+F4
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Curse, turn my parking lights on, and park the truck to one side, hope no one was hurt behind me
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Realistically, I’d let it happen. No ragerts.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Realistically, there would be very little if any time remaining to experience regret.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Get out the saw and start furiously making a table
__ghost__@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Speed up
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The NASCAR theory…
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh, hey, it’s Pseudotsuga menziesii.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, it’s Enrico Pallazzo!
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Log that close? Same thing op would. Die.
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Try to avoid the big logs.
theblips@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’d Jim the camera and say “logs, amirite?”
Pnut@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is what the “overdrive” button on the shifter column is for.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 2 months ago
swerve right asshole
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 2 months ago
assholes always swerve right
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s the (then-) new highway near where I grew up, right before they put up the signage. I’d slow down because my dad knew all the cops.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Simple. Seen this a thousand times.
Freeze frame - cue narrator
“I bet you’re wondering how I ended up here…”
Then I fuckin bail before the freeze frame is over.
Roll credits.
It’s obvious you all haven’t taken American media seriously, and it’s sad. The great story tellers of our time have spent countless hours and mountains of money to teach you lessons from the annals of history and it consistently falls on deaf ears to the inevitable demise of civilization.
One day people will tell tales of the great visionaries such as James Wong, true prophets of times long past who spent their lives and vast borrowed fortunes attempting to warn the masses of future catastrophes as foretold by the wise and all knowing producers, the forgotten gods of our times, who sacrificed their own lives and hard earned connections, in a fruitless attempt to spare future generations from the predicted inevitable rise of death itself, using math to systematically destroy us one by one.
If only we had paid attention and not been distracted by the irresistible whores of Hollywood who tempted us with dreams of superheroes and anthropomorphic stones assuming the the roles of so called “actors”, posing as “action heroes” we might leave a better legacy for the future generations of content consumers who will surely mock us for our ignorance as they smash that like button.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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