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[–] Big@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 6 hours ago

Moses said the driver, a 34-year-old, was in custody. He did not say whether authorities believe it was intentional.

"We are still working to determine how this happened and why this happened," he said.

People need to leave the fucking kids alone holy shit. At the very least it wasn't a spontaneously dead driver. So what the fuck happened???

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

Damn. Final destination shit. Driver had 2 kids in the truck as well. I really hope it wasn't intentional and just a tragic medical condition.

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[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

Regardless of the cause of the acceleration, this is an excellent example of why vehicles should be regulated so that they must stop, or at least not exceed some extremely low speed, after an impact is detected. We may not be able to prevent all incidents, but we can at least reduce their severity.

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[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

Then a vehicle on the highway gets hit by some pebbles in the wrong way and emergency brakes, leading to a huge mass accident.

Idk, maybe it could help if done properly (haha), but maybe a better start would be to reduce the size of most street monstertrucks nowadays?

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[–] Nimux2@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

If drivers actually kept safe distances with the vehicles in front of them, sudden deceleration like mentioned above wouldn't be an issue.

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[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes, if..? Big if..

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[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I believe we are fully capable of programming a sensor that can tell the difference between a 1g pebble and a 50kg body.

Of course we should also mandate maximum vehicle sizes, maximum vehicle speeds, maximum vehicle weights, and reduce road widths, create modal filters and mazes of one-way streets, create car-free streets, etc, but I never said anything to the contrary. Even if you were to do all of those things, cars could still be used as weapons by those who wish to do so. It's part of a holistic set of interventions to reduce harm.

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[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago

If thats the sole function, sure. But i heavily doubt that cramming more and more and more "safety" features helps all that much. I don't per se disagree with you but it irks me, a lot, if a car moves the steering wheel for me, so i am generally rather against more of that crap. (For the record: i'd rather not drive at all and we would, imo, be in a better world, if much less people would (need to) drive around so much)

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 5 hours ago

it's actually really dangerous a lot of the time to pull over immediately after e.g. a deer strike. lots of rural roads with no shoulder and an unexpected slow or stopped car is a hazard to anyone else, and to you if you get out of your car to look at the damage.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 4 hours ago

My thought was of hitting a deer or minor accident. You want to be able to move to the shoulder or drive to a safe place to stop.

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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

That is definitely a possibility, but if it was one of those they probably wouldn't have the driver in custody and instead have them in the hospital (seizure, stroke, etc.).

It's also very possible that they just have a large fast truck and they put it in drive instead of reverse, then panicked and kept accelerating instead of hitting the brake.

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

I'd wager a guess this was taking meds that include "do not operate heavy machinery" and then operating heavy machinery