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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.
Log that close? Same thing op would. Die.
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.
Press f9
Hard swerve to the right, and duck.
What good is a bird in this situation?
Hello. They can fly.
Oh, hey, it’s Pseudotsuga menziesii.
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.
Same here except one difference. I would immediately get impaled right as I start the calculations.
Realistically, I’d let it happen. No ragerts.
Realistically, there would be very little if any time remaining to experience regret.
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.
might have hit the ground and bounced
Sure, but it’s skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.
Terrifying is the video I saw of bricks falling off of an oncoming truck, coming through the windshield.
We’re you trying to re-traumatize everyone? Fuck that video. There’s maybe 3 videos ever online that can do that and that video is 2 of them, at least.
It’s the scream of realisation. Haunting.
I am still happy I never actually watched it and just saw the thumbnail. I do not want the horrors described by the comments.
The video doesn’t show anything. It’s just the brick coming through the windshield. The sound is what’s haunting.
I know. Does not change my stance.
No the log actually has a hidden rocket motor in the side not visible to us and is accelerating to escape velocity towards the car.
Having seen this movie, I have never and will never drive behind any kind of cylinder hauler, ever.
This movie did more for safe following distance than decades of drivers ed.
Alt+F4
This is what the “overdrive” button on the shifter column is for.
I’d Jim the camera and say “logs, amirite?”
Curse, turn my parking lights on, and park the truck to one side, hope no one was hurt behind me
