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IdiotsInCars

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This ~~subreddit~~ community is devoted to the lovable idiots who do hilarious, idiot things in their idiot cars (or trucks, motorcycles, tractors, or other vehicle). We honor them with gifs, videos, images, and laughter.

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The guy behind Trucker Dashcam // Sweden is one of the nicest truckers I've ever heard of. He mainly does dashcam compilations nowadays, and includes videos from friends and subscibers as well.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do people feel the need to breakcheck anyone? And trucks at that, like they couldn't just keep going or just be unable to slow down enough and hit these idiots...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And why check for breaks? I mean, brake checking, sure, gotta make sure your brakes work, but taking breaks involves getting off the road and pulling over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I break check people when they're on my ass and I will be breaking soon. Because if I start actually breaking I will definitely be in a wreck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't brake check people, but I do flash my brake lights a few times if someone is tailgating me. That generally makes people realise "oops, sorry, I was too close". If they ignore that I slowly turn the cruise control down until they'd rather switch lanes and zip off. Funny how I'm only tailgated when there is plenty of space in the passing lane to the left of me.

The brake checks that the assholes do are when they actually brake to have near-collision vicinity to trigger collision warnings/autobrakes on trucks and busses, or to really rile another car driver up/collect insurance. But they forget that many people nowadays have dashcams (thank you Russian insurance companies!).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Don't brake check, just glide. Brake checking is more likely to cause an accident. Just naturally slowing down won't.

Plus it really pisses them off.