• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6 days 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.

        • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          6 days ago

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

          • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            5 days 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?

      • Owl@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

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

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    951·
    7 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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    52·
    7 days ago

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

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days ago

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

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      7·
      6 days 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.

  • kaidezee@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    6 days ago

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

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    261·
    7 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.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    6 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.

  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    5 days 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.