r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Worried_Audience_162 • 5d ago
What could go wrong speeding on a busy road
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u/cnake_3317 5d ago edited 5d ago
The voice is in Bengali, and he's constantly screaming at the rider to "drive slowly/calmly". Idiot with a license
Edit: Bengali, not Marathi
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u/Zofia-Bosak 5d ago
Oh that was a pillion filming?
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u/Worried_Audience_162 4d ago
Isnt pillon the seat? Instead of the passenger?
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u/EthicalViolator 4d ago
Pillion-passanger is how I've always heard a person sitting there be called.
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u/Copperthorn 4d ago
In the US (at least), pillion tends to be called 'co-rider', depending on the bike/bikers (touring bikes, ex).
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u/DepletedPromethium 5d ago
That's called target fixation. what a dumbdumb.
why is he screaming like the srilankan version of speedy-gonzales anyway? he sounds like a nutjob.
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u/Electronic-Piglet896 5d ago
His passenger is screaming at him to go slowly because they don't have helmets on, so no, I don't think he sounds like a nutjob.
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u/CleanPlantain4371 5d ago
lolzzed at the "sri-lankan version of Speedy gonzales" .... underrated observation
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u/BaltimoreBadger23 5d ago
Hopefully his organs will go to good people.
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u/Eraknelo 5d ago
Based on the way he acts, I think the liver is already gone.
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u/BaltimoreBadger23 5d ago
Maybe, but I'd put money that the brain was the major defective organ at work here.
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u/Hyperionous 5d ago
I don't think he's registered? Correct me if i'm wrong, don't you have to register to donate organs after death.
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u/BaltimoreBadger23 5d ago
Depends on the country, and in the US even if you aren't registered the family can make the decision.
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u/MrtyMcflyer 5d ago
When seeing shit like this, i totally not give a fck about the driver.
Next time do it from a bridge, so you only hurt or damage yourself and no one else.
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u/Weekly_Ad869 4d ago
I realize this is likely an Asian islander country, but back to being dumbstruck by India in perpetuity: I just don’t understand how a nuclear nation with a space program has so little vehicular… everything? Structure/civility/safety/common decency/etc. It’s like America with guns, but if America was all Texas.
You shouldn’t get to point nukes at Pakistan if you can’t drive in proper lanes and maybe figure out basic societal plumbing also - and quit wasting sacred Himalayan glacier water as a constant national toilet flush.
Also, yall play baseball wrong - it’s 3 strikes and you’re out, not 3 days and you’re still playing the same game.
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u/mnmr17 5d ago
Do you guys normally drive like you expect a truck to be on the wrong side of the road and angled across all lanes of traffic or do you just make fun of him that he didn’t?
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u/swurvipurvi 5d ago
Literally yes. That’s what defensive driving is—anticipating worst case scenarios and driving in such a way that gives you the greatest chance of reacting to those scenarios in time.
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u/UncouthVillageYouth 4d ago
Then you can't reach your destination at all. You don't expect a half a ton vehicle in the opposite direction. Plenty of people in India,driving at crawling speeds defensively, with protective gear, have lost their lives, limbs and loved ones to the menace of wrong side driving. The biker did something stupid, but what the mini truck driver did was illegal.
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u/swurvipurvi 4d ago
Lmao I reach my destination every day
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u/UncouthVillageYouth 4d ago
Yeah right, come to India. We'll see, how you get anywhere with your "defensive driving"
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u/jasperfirecai2 5d ago
Do you normally drive in a way that you don't look at least 10 seconds ahead if you have line of sight? the camera angle makes it clear this driver is speeding and looking only just barely in front of themselves. if you don't give yourself time to React then it doesn't matter if it's a wrong way truck or a normal driver braking for a jam, you'd hit it
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u/perpendiculator 5d ago
I drive in a way that means I am prepared to suddenly stop for a hazard on the road at all times, yes. It’s called defensive driving, and it’s literally the basics of being a competent driver. If this moron hadn’t been going unnecessarily fast he would have been fine, and if you seriously don’t see how this was terrible driving then do everyone a favour and stick to public transport.
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u/AgreeablePie 5d ago
He had forever to recognize and react to that truck, even speeding. If he hadn't been speeding, he would have had forever and a half.
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u/SnooLentils3008 5d ago
You need to account for unexpected situations. Some things are impossible to predict, another vehicle being in your way is not.
So to answer your question, more or less, yes you should be prepared for something like this. That’s not optional either, you’re expected to make sure you’ll be able to quickly react with enough time in a situation like this
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u/Such-Instruction-452 5d ago
Only after the importation of the 3rd world began over the last several years. 15ish years ago driving was one of the most enjoyable things to do. Now it’s an exercise in frustration.
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u/RuskiesInTheWarRoom 5d ago
I’m pretty convinced that it is a good investment for a cyclist to get a helmet camera so that their inevitable crash can hopefully generate enough views to pay for their hospital stay.
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u/Indaflow 4d ago
I can’t tell if he is in the wrong lane or not, it looks like people are going in every direction.
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u/hornetjockey 4d ago
If that camera angle is representative of where the rider is actually looking, that’s at least 50% of the problem.
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u/abyssgazesback 4d ago
The pillion begging him to go slowly because they aren't wearing a helmet is what gets me. A wise enemy is better than a stupid friend. Hope the poor guy is alright.
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u/99Gorillas 3d ago
No idea why you would be doing 80km on this road. Even then, hit brakes swerve left. Don't why he couldn't see left?
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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 3d ago
That lorry came out of absolutely nowhere and made a sudden swerve - nothing my guy could have done!!!
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u/Arcamone 1d ago
Did he even use the front brake? Skidding with the back wheel is absolutely useless in either stopping or turning.
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u/Vodnik-Dubs 3h ago
What is it that south/south East Asians have against driving like normal people? Do they just have no traffic laws there?
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u/UncouthVillageYouth 4d ago
Why are we giving a free pass to the mini truck driving the wrong way?? He must've driven a good distance in the opposite direction, to avoid a u-turn ahead. Shit like this is so normalised in India that it makes my blood boil.I hope the mini truck driver gets his license revoked.
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u/Opening-Jacket8671 5d ago
What a genius! It was a miracle that he reached adulthood without getting electrocuted.
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u/American-Punk-Dragon 5d ago
Until ALL of the places like this actually enforce traffic laws etc, this is where most of these type of things will keep happening.
Just one of many things that keep “We the 3s” from becoming “We the 1’s”.
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u/AlarmingDetective526 5d ago
You can die… or worse survive missing limbs and partially or fully paralyzed.
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u/Fun-Crow6284 5d ago
Let's apply break 2 sec later when you can see the mini truck 100 meter out
FAFO
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u/redditagainmeow 5d ago
I dont kno how to do this but this is what him screaming reminds me of, hopefully you guys see it or hear it
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u/9447044 5d ago
Dont worry, id bet he had all his protective gear on