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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Then treestart.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Floor it in the hope my pulverized corpse takes the fucker with me

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Log that close? Same thing op would. Die.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The logs don’t actually tend to fly out and backwards, they fall off to the sides, usually just one side too, the best option is to give them plenty of space and be ready to steer to the side not dumping logs. If you’re unfortunate enough that one managed to catch air enough to be sent back but not enough to change it from horizontal to more vertical the universe has already decided what you’re doing, dying

We have a ton of these where I live I’ve never seen one in motion fail I don’t find them any scarier than a normal semi who has who knows what, possibly something way more deadly and way less stable hidden inside the container

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Swerve right with medium braking. Depending on the logs either swerve back in, or more likely crash into the guardrail as slow as possible, any oole/structure could take a lifesaving hit before you do.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Try to avoid the big logs.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Probably crash, my car is right hand drive so I don't think the log hits me, but I'm pretty sure I'm not prepared to control a car after that kind of impact.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Anyone who doesn't say die like a bitch is lying to themselves

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

have a vision on who dies next tell my friends they completely ignore it and die like me

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't have been anywhere near that close to a fckn logging truck of all things.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

assholes always swerve right

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Realistically, same, right after being crayoned by the log.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 day 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!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Never noticed that the logs fell off the side and bounced! The log would 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.

EDIT: The log is still going 65mph (for argument's sake). You're still going 65mph (for argument's sake). The log will slow on the bounce, a little, you'll jam the brakes and slow more, it will still look like a fucking torpedo.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

i'd argue a bouncing log takes a lot longer to slow down than your average car hitting the brakes

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Brakes can absolutely stop faster than a log falling off a truck. Your reaction time is the main concern.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Wouldn't you have about the same reaction time as if the truck was braking tho? I mean, the momentum will carry the log in the direction the truck was going until it dissipates, which is kinda the same as braking.

I mean, that situation would obviously be dangerous because you don't wanna stop on a freeway for obvious reasons, but still, if you adhered to common safety rules, you should be okay in that situation, no?

[-] [email protected] 121 points 2 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 168 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

If you had to think about it, you're dead.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Turn on the Improbability Drive. And certainly not improbably watch out for sperm whales falling from the sky.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Activate the Omega 13 device!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I thought there was a giant log rolling toward the lorry.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Having seen this movie, I have never and will never drive behind any kind of cylinder hauler, ever.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This movie did more for safe following distance than decades of drivers ed.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Get out the saw and start furiously making a table

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

Before this happened I would have given myself double the distance to the truck avoiding the situation completely

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Curse, turn my parking lights on, and park the truck to one side, hope no one was hurt behind me

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I'd Jim the camera and say "logs, amirite?"

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days 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.

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