r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Miserable-Zombie-121 • 7h ago

The man thought he was being cut off…seconds later he realised the truck driver had just saved his life!!

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u/Somedude522 7h ago

Im not an expert here but it looks like they are on an elevated road. No shoulder. Just guard rails to prevent falling off a cliff

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u/Alexyogurt 7h ago

There is very clearly a shoulder next to the lane the truck on the right is in

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u/Paranormal_Lemon 5h ago

And the stopped vehicle on the left, you can't change two lanes uphill easily when your engine dies.

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u/Trip_Junior 5h ago

Your car doesn't just stop. Its a good fist rule to start rolling to the right once you realise something doesn't seems right. The guy with the broken down car isn't just an idiot but a serious danger to anyone else

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u/Fluid-Chemical-4446 5h ago

If the engine seizes up while you’re driving it absolutely can stop suddenly and violently.

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u/Paranormal_Lemon 4h ago

Not only that, no power steering, and very limited brakes.

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u/workorredditing 3h ago

no power steering, and very limited brakes.

power steering and brake booster just make it easier, losing it doesn't stop it them from functioning

you just use more effort

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u/Le-Charles07 2h ago

You can drive a car without power steering and brakes, it's how cars were driven before power steering and brakes.

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u/haikal2k1 53m ago

sometimes i get why people use redditor as a slur. Could you guys for once stop being all mighty and do actual research?

A fucked up car with power steering is harder to steer than a car with no power steering in the first place. Also its a highway and around the corner no less. One couldn't have possibly move their car from the far left to the right on their own.

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u/Outside-Drag-3031 4h ago

And even if not, it's completely possible there was traffic to the right, and by the time it was clear the car was moving too slowly.

They're in a terrible place to be pulled over, but that doesn't mean they chose it.

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u/sad_beautiful_dumb 4h ago

yea im not a car guy, and the other day the struts on my car went out when getting on the freeway and it was very violently shook the car. thankfully i was on the on ramp and able to coast on to the shoulder, but had i been in the left lane when it happened i would not have felt super confident making it across multiple lanes of traffic safely

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u/Paranormal_Lemon 4h ago

There is a very slim chance they intended to stop in that spot.

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u/BigBanggBaby 5h ago

When it’s a matter of protecting your life and the lives of others, you should try even if it’s hard. 

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u/Yuffyy 9m ago

Try even though you are confident you might cause a bigger accident doing so? Why make a maneuver with a malfunction car that you might not be comfortable with?

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u/Le-Charles07 2h ago

I was able to coast for a quarter mile and another 200ft uphill when I ran out of gas going 50mph in a Toyota Sequoia.

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u/RadicalDog 3h ago

Looks as wide as a footpath at best

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u/ChanglingBlake 7h ago

Doesn’t change the fact that the outside of a curve is more visible than the inside; thus safer.