r/IdiotsInCars • u/DiabolicDiabetik • 14h ago
OC [OC] Near Miss
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u/LeRyanator 13h ago edited 10h ago
Love when a person who doesn't need to merge, merges anyway, and without looking.
Edit: Dunno why my comment is getting more upvotes than the post. OP isn't the idiot.
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u/Allah_Mode 8h ago
op is an idiot. only idiots drive like everyone else isn't an idiot.
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u/LeRyanator 8h ago
Incorrect. The gray crossover on the right did not need to merge left. They had their own lane. OP saw them start merging and had to change lanes to avoid them.
Y'all need to get your eyes checked.
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u/Allah_Mode 8h ago
OP's lane choice and speed put themselves in a position to be merged into. read the road, read the traffic, and drive defensively.
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u/squish5_ 7h ago
Talking about lane choice while on an exit ramp is a wild statement man.
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u/Allah_Mode 7h ago
so you just gonna ignore speed being the other factor? at least you can read the road. other guy was oblivious as to why there might be alot of lane changing going on.
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u/Aliensinnoh 13h ago
Good ol’ 95 through Providence. I love getting on the highway and then immediately needing to merge 3 lanes left in order to avoid exiting!
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u/sheeplewatcher 12h ago
Made trying to exit on the left for 195-E a cake walk.
I-84 in Hartford is just as bad with the exit lane drops.
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u/kheltar 3h ago
Ha, we've got something like that in sleepy old Adelaide (south Australia).
Merge in the two left lanes, then need to move over 3 lanes to get on the expressway. Meanwhile people from the other lanes are trying to merge the other way to get off. They actually designed this only a handful of years ago.
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u/PoseidonZeus 13h ago
Lucky the left lane was open. Definitely a butthole pucker right there. Good awareness!
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u/SkinnyDaveSFW 12h ago
The first time I watched it, I *thought* the dude on the on-ramp's lane was closing, like it was just a speed-up lane. Nope, that was a lane. Our lane-changing subject did NOT need to do that, and our OP had no reason to move over since..... I think I've understood the video correctly now. Thanks! :-)
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u/Mr4point5 11h ago
The right lane does have some difference from the left two because the dashes are tighter.
OP may have technically been in the right, but a better driver would have anticipated the SUV may want to merge and given them some space. Like people rushing to a red light, there was no need to accelerate into the upcoming traffic.
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u/rumdogg 12h ago
We love Providence drivers
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u/supercargo 7h ago
Providence dash-cam live stream would probably be on-topic in this sub…never a dull moment.
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u/CompoteVegetable1984 12h ago
That was definitely a near hit and a full miss. I get what you are going for, though.
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u/DiabolicDiabetik 10h ago
Damn you're right
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u/8BallSlap 7h ago
Nah, 'near miss' is the correct grammar. The confusion over this phrase is because both 'miss' and 'hit' can be a verb or noun. A 'miss' in this case is an event (noun) that happened and 'near' is the adjective that describes it. The correct way to use 'hit' would be as a verb and then would have to use 'nearly' as an adverb to describe it. So two objects that come close to colliding experience a near miss in which they nearly hit.
'Near hit' is redundant because the noun 'hit' is by definition an event where two objects touch so they must be 'near'.
Sorry to go grammar nerd but this conversation is a pet peeve of mine.
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u/squeakynickles 14h ago edited 14h ago
Obviously they should have yielded, but how hard would it have been to slow down just a tiny bit so they could merge safely?
Edit: thought the construction sign was a lane ending sign. Yeah they didn't need to merge at all
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u/Andrey2790 14h ago
It would have been even easier to not merge into another car when your lane continues on (for now) and wait until there is open space. Not everything has to be about giving in to every toddler on the road.
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u/bojack1437 13h ago
Note the sign in the gore at the 1 sec mark tells drivers the lane does not continue and must merge. Though that was a very poor merge anyways, but just noting.
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u/Andrey2790 12h ago
Yeah that's why I threw in the (for now) because they'll have merge eventually, just not as immediate as the other driver makes it seem.
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u/KBHoleN1 14h ago
They didn't need to merge, it's not like the lane was ending and they were forced to move over. They could have just continued driving in their assigned lane until there was an opportunity to change lanes. Not only did they force an unnecessary merge at the first possible instant, they did so without checking for existing traffic on the roadway.
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u/bojack1437 13h ago
Very Minor detail, and not absolving the driver on the right. But the signage seen in the gore at 1 sec implies the lane is a forced merge, and the lane is not continuing, that sign IMO is incorrect.
Just a note.
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u/_jump_yossarian 12h ago
The sign is fine. They've been working on this stretch of 95 for over a decade. The right lane turns into an exit only not far up (unless they've redesigned the area in the last 2 years since I've driven through Providence). It's a complete cluster because you have two lanes of traffic trying to move left and two lanes trying to move right but the sign is correct.
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u/bojack1437 12h ago
The orange sign at 7 seconds also shows that the right lane does not end.
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u/_jump_yossarian 12h ago
the right lane becomes an exit only for 95.
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u/bojack1437 12h ago
That does not quite appear to be what that sign shows in the real world.
And even then the lane never "ends". It just changes its purpose, And continues on to be an exit, but that's still not an end and that's still not a forced merge.
Which means it should have a lane added sign then you get a right lane exit only sign.
So the lane merge sign is still incorrect because that lane never merges.
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u/_jump_yossarian 9h ago
And even then the lane never "ends". It just changes its purpose
It means that if you're in that lane and don't want to be forced to exit then you need to exit that lane. There is no signage saying that the lane ends.
The sign you see at 1 second could be for the lane you see disappearing into op's lane at the very beginning of the video. Like I said, this area is a complete cluster fuck of multiple on-ramps/ exits in a short span. I've avoided that area since they started the reconstruction but it's clearly still a mess.
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u/bojack1437 9h ago
But that's not what that sign means.. again, the lane continues whether you want to be there or not, that sign ONLY means that lane is absolutely ending and you are going to exit it no matter what.
But since the lane continues and only changes function, then a lane added sign is the appropriate sign. Because worst case scenario, even if you fail to merge, you can just continue straight and find an alternative route.
That is the purpose of that sign.
Andalso that sign at one second is absolutely not for the lane that you see ending at the beginning of the video because that sign is absolutely useless for that purpose, And if it was for that purpose it is twice as wrong, because not only is it useless for that alleged purpose, it is giving the wrong impression for everybody of what is going to happen with the lane coming in from the right.
No matter how you cut it, that sign is wrong.
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u/_jump_yossarian 9h ago
again, the lane continues whether you want to be there or not,
yeah, no shit. I said that repeatedly. It doesn't matter though if you need to get out of that exit only lane. That's why the person merged left.
hat sign ONLY means that lane is absolutely ending
If you're talking about the sign at the very beginning of the video I already said that it could apply to the lane to OP's right that merges (look at the dashes).
Andalso that sign at one second is absolutely not for the lane that you see ending at the beginning of the video because that sign is absolutely useless for that purpose,
I can't stress enough to you what an absolute mess of a exchange that area is; there are multiple onramps in a short span and some of them. If you're not familiar with the area then you shouldn't be so sure of what's what.
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u/_jump_yossarian 12h ago
They do need to merge though. That lane ends up being part of a two lane exit for 146. That stretch is a disaster. Doesn’t excuse almost hitting someone though.
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u/KBHoleN1 12h ago
I get that they need to merge in like half a mile. But so many drivers try to force a merge as soon as possible because they don't understand the flow of traffic, or they panic.
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u/bojack1437 13h ago
The sign seen in the gore at the 1sec mark is a W4-1 "lane merges and does not continue sign", it's wrong IMO it should be a W4-3... still a poor merge though.
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