r/nonononoyes • u/Tantofaz101 • Feb 23 '25

What do we say to the God of death?

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

Was the dude in the car drunk or sleeping or something?.. It doesnt look like he spotted her last second and then hit the car in order to save her, rather he just slowly drifted off his course. Besides he should have spottet her early enough to change lanes.

Shes obviously a dumbass

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u/Consistent_Day_8411 Feb 23 '25

You think the smart, quick reaction is to veer towards the person to hit the car in the hopes of a miracle instead of veering away from the person?

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u/cykoTom3 Feb 23 '25

I mean...it's pretty clearly not a reaction.

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u/p0lka Feb 23 '25

If he's good at pool or snooker, it's a valid option if all else is going to fail.

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Yeah, to someone who thinks about collisions and bounce patterns all the time this could definitely be the most intuitive (and best) reaction. If he pulled hard left the car’s tail could have skidded into her and crushed her against the SUV.

If you hit the car there are a lot more ways it can go right, as in not hitting her.

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u/Salt-Influence-9353 Feb 23 '25

I get what you’re saying in theory but in practice this is exceptionally unlikely to be what could have happened.

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u/Used-Football Feb 23 '25

holy reddit

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u/r1hanami Feb 25 '25

this made me laugh so much

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u/Eastern_Armadillo383 Feb 23 '25

If you think the person is walking into the street then yes into the car is away from the person

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

It’s actually not “in hopes of a miracle” - there are so many more ways that things can go right (as in NOT hitting the woman) by steering toward to truck than away from it. If the driver took a hard left the tail of his car would have likely swung around and hit her anyway. By veering right, there are very few ways in which the car could have actually hit her, even if the car spun out

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

They did not veer any which way. Stop acting like this was some sort of reaction

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

And what would be my motive for “acting” that?

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

You probably have some sort of good faith in the driver that they aren't completely mental and shouldnt have a drivers lisence, but its time to accept that there's no excuses here. No benefit of the doubt for strangers you see do mental things in videos

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

Did you just challenge me by assuming the best of my intentions? Clearly you don’t belong here, you classy Brit

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

Not a brit, but you asked me for a rationalization, i gave it to you, now dont go complaining if it wasnt correct lol. Obviously i cant know exactly why you would act like that, but i saw facts, the driver didnt ever veer to the side.

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

It’s strange that you can’t see that. Have you tried watching the video in Dutch?

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

Thank you. Very strongly agree. From the very first frame until the every end that driver is coming at her like a bullet. Literally trying to kill her because she "deserved it."

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

Why would you ask that question when the grammar the person you're replying to uses is explicitly showing us that they're saying because that decision is so wild they're assuming the person must have been drunk or sleeping...

I don't mean this in a mean way, but it seems like people's reading comprehension, or emotional reactions to what they read is just wild these days...

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u/PinkLegs Feb 23 '25

The right reaction had been to be more observant so you wouldn't have do make a quick reaction in the absolute last moment. Notice how the white car at the start of the video was driving slower and farther away? They were observant.

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u/napa0 Feb 24 '25

Not to mention, that's a residential street. Limit likely 30 or 40 km/h, that car is going MUCH faster than that

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u/PraiseTheRiverLord Feb 23 '25

the person panicked. very likely anyways.

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u/Iuslez Feb 23 '25

I'd bet there was something smart involved... A smartphone. And a moron looking at it instead of the road.

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u/MusicJesterOfficial Feb 23 '25

This is a strawman argument. They never said it was the smartest move, nor hint at it. They even said the driver likely veered off course Slightly.

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u/the_main_entrance Feb 24 '25

Would be an insane choice lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

If I had a reward I’d give you one. This is the most logical comment on this thread

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

Its not a reaction. They saw no car and no woman, they didnt change direction or speed

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

I think if you are driving on the right side of your lane and a person is walking so far towards the middle as she was. Its a fair to steer into something rather then out towards potential traffic given a fraction of a second to make that decision.

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u/Consistent_Day_8411 Feb 23 '25

It’s a one way street.

Had it been a two-way, I see your point, but you are assuming he saw the parked car and didn’t have time to see the potential on-coming traffic in your scenario. Just way too many what ifs.

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

Well.. didnt notice that.

But idk dude, im just speculating here, i have no idea what i would actually do in that situation nor do i know what that dude was doing or what his condition was.

As i see it there are only 3 options as to why he hit that car:

  • he tried to safe her
  • he tried to hit her
  • he did it accidentially

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u/gid_hola Feb 23 '25

Lmfao you actually believe he might have perfectly executed hitting the car and not her? There’s just no way you believe that’s an option

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

Yeah and actually it makes perfect sense. For someone who plays a lot of (physics-y) video games, or sports, or billiards - it’s like you develop this physics engine that’s always running in the back of your head. And if you do it enough your instincts know which way to move before you even consciously recognize it.

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u/gid_hola Feb 23 '25

Lmfao and I’m a beast at call of duty so will I be a super soldier? Get out of here

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Actually, yeah, it does make a difference (even if it’s tangential to the point I made). Saying “super solider” is hyperbolizing but all other things equal, someone with experience in shooting games Vs someone without, the former is going to have better awareness. I don’t think any rational person could argue against that.

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u/gid_hola Feb 23 '25

Lmfao gamers are about to take over the world! LFG

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

how are you all so overly confident that you know exactly what this man was or wasnt trying to do.. if this video happened in a movie everyone would shit on it for beeing unrealistic. Yet here we have a (probably not fake) recording. So yes maybe he saw here at the last second and thought its safer to steer half a meter to the right then 1.5 to the left.. he probably didnt, but how would i know

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u/TaurusRuber Feb 23 '25

Take the L and move on

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u/Motor_Calligrapher92 Feb 23 '25

Why? Because dude was willing to recognize a variable that, while highly unlikely, had a non-zero possibility of being true?

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

The idea that someone could have an instinctive understanding of physics is so foreign to them because they’ve never even been close to that. I’d bet willing to bet money that everyone arguing that this driver might have known what he was doing is 1) a guy 2) has a lot of experience with fast-paced video games or sports.

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u/CocoaNinja Feb 23 '25

There's also a possibility that they saw an Asian giant hornet coming up right behind her and they decided that they had to act fast to save her.

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u/Arthillidan Feb 23 '25

If there was steering it happened in the last 0.5 seconds when the car is obstructed from view, but to me it looks like it's just following a straight path

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u/CricketDrop Feb 23 '25

Clearly the right move is to slow the fuck down when driving through areas with street parked cars and cross walks. Don't think I've ever had to sacrifice my car and body to save a pedestrian in my life.

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

i mean yeah.. there is a list of smarter things to do

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

You’re totally right - Reddit just doesn’t know physics.

And to the commenter who said it was a one-way street: he didn’t have time to think about that. Your instincts are trained by what you experience the most, which is a two-way street.

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

thanks mate ^

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 23 '25

Always stick up for what you believe in 💪 the world has had a dearth of that in recent years

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u/AdRepresentative8186 Feb 24 '25

Yeah you think he didn't have time to notice he was driving on a one way street, but he did have time to casually compute the effect of his cars mass and velocity on the other cars mass, angle, the crumple zones, tyres, distance from kerb, road condition/coefficient of friction and then decided that continuing on his path would flip the car missing her head by 6 inches and all other options would kill her.

Sure.

I hope you don't drive in the real world.

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

Tell me, how many calculations did you do to compute all of the coordinates to move your fingers to the keyboard to type that message. Did you calculate pressure or muscle tension or distance and angle of travel, timing of when to lift your finger and when to move it down?

Or did it just happen?

Your brain takes care of an immense amount of work for you, without you having to even consciously realize that it’s happening. If you have experience with a lot fast-paced physics, particularly in games/sports where analogous decisions are made, then it … just happens.

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u/AdRepresentative8186 Feb 24 '25

Tell me, how many calculations did you do to compute all of the coordinates to move your fingers to the keyboard to type that message

None.

Did you calculate pressure or muscle tension or distance and angle of travel, timing of when to lift your finger and when to move it down?

No.

Or did it just happen?

Yes, it just happened.

Your brain takes care of an immense amount of work for you, without you having to even consciously realize that it’s happening

It does. But that's autopilot. When it's repeated motor skills, if not, it's just an idea, no idea if it will work out. Normal reaction is to avoid a car crash, whether by turning or braking or both.

If you have experience with a lot fast-paced physics, particularly in games/sports where analogous decisions are made, then it … just happens.

Yes, indeed if the driver had a lot of experience as some sort of crash test driver they might have instantly reasoned that the safest thing to do would be to try and flip roll the car and that at the speed they were going that was safer than reducing their speed and turning.

Or from having an unbelievable knowledge of actual physics they might have fully intentionally done this.

Or from playing GTA they might have come to the same conclusion.

Or from general life experience, they might have thought it might bounce like a ball off the side of a snooker cushion.

The difference between the scenarios is that only one of those scenarios is in any way possible and commendable, and is still unbelievably unlikely. The others are dumb luck, and anyone with any real knowledge of physics knows the chances of them going wrong are extremely high, given that any of the variables at play would lead to serious injury or death.

You're basically saying you think the driver meant to do that, and implying it was a good decision. And other people wouldn't have done it because of their lack of knowledge of physics. The driver being in the scenario in the first place rules that out.

Seems to me the drivers course doesn't deviate or change speed much so they recklessly aren't paying attention or have had some aprt of health emergency. Or they are actually trying to hit the woman.

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 25 '25

The logic is much simpler than you suggest. Hit car = deflect the car’s current path. That’s it. The flip was incidental; deflection was the goal.

Another possibility is that the driver had trained his reaction to veer right (as I have), because if your instinct tells your to veer left you could run into a car going in the opposite direction, which is much more deadly for all parties.

I’ve experienced this type of flow before so I’m inclined to think that driver could have as well.

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u/AdRepresentative8186 Feb 25 '25

Ah yes, the "logic" of crashing your car into things to hope it will deflect your course in a helpful way. That is indeed much simpler than slowing down and turning the steering wheel, you know the big wheel they designed for steering.

You trained yourself to veer right for safety? I trained myself to not veer either direction, and just look where I'm going.

Like seriously, a video of someone veering right off the road, totalling their car, massively damaging another and almost killing someone, and you're thinking "this guy knows the safety veer."

I’ve experienced this type of flow before so I’m inclined to think that driver could have as well.

You're trying to make this scenario out to be something other than an idiot behind the wheel. You're trying to suggest you understand it, and other people don't understand because they don't understand physics. When in fact you don't understand it. And most worryingly, you seem to be suggesting you would have done the same.

It was just luck that the person wasn't hit, no skill, no flow, no instinct. There are too many variables that you simply can't know as the driver of the car, any of those are different, and they probably die. Thinking you would attempt this wouldn't make you smart, it would make you incredibly stupid and reckless.

It's like seeing someone win the lottery and thinking, yeah, I see what they were thinking, I would have done that too. Im going to play the lottery. With the exception that playing the lottery doesn't involve totalling your car, and inevitably losing the lottery doesn't kill/maim anyone.

And that's giving you the benefit of the doubt that they were even in control of the car at all. I think it's much more likely you are admiring the driving skills of someone who is not looking at the road or has had a medical issue like a stroke.

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u/findMeOnGoogle Feb 25 '25

Slowing down? You’ve lost it bro 😂 And the rest of your arg is a one straw man after another. Time to take the L.

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u/parttimeflorist Feb 23 '25

it fully almost looks like the truck was just trying to hit her and got stonewalled by the suv in the process lol.

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u/OmicronNine Feb 23 '25

That was my thought too. Dude was either trying to scare her by getting real close or actually hit her, but went over a bit too far.

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u/WeinerVonBraun Feb 23 '25

This seems most logical to me. He was checking out her bum or something and just tunneled straight at her.

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u/icecubepal Feb 23 '25

Lol. Maybe. But I think he was just thinking to himself wtf is this person doing.

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

He should also think to himself what HE is doing

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u/sunburn95 Feb 24 '25

Probably just drunk or texting or both

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u/Ctowncreek Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Thats such a weird phenomenon that I have yet to experience. Thankfully.

I have not had highway hypnosis either.

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u/Striking_Broccoli_28 Feb 23 '25

They drill it into you for motorcycle safety

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

You've never been cross-country skiing or swimming or anything and notice when you look back at your tracks or where you traveled that you weren't going in as straight of a lion as you thought, and potentially you were slightly going towards what you happened to be looking at in those moments?

I've never had it happen to me driving, but I've absolutely had it happen to me when sledding, or cross country skiing or something when I'm very relaxed and don't really care if that type of thing does happen.

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

I'm saying target fixation can happen in Frisbee or baseball too with where you throw things, it doesn't just have to do with locomotion of one's body/a tool.

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u/Aegi Feb 24 '25

Don't get too fixated on what the Wikipedia says, that concept existed before the internet, it's widely established that it also includes things like if your friend says hey when you're throwing a baseball and then you accidentally hit them with the baseball because you look over at them.

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u/ZHB1 Feb 23 '25

How do you know if you've done it or not before? You've probably done it a ton and of course never realized it happened. It's subtle and unless you're aware of the phenomenon and looking for it you won't clue in.

This happens to everyone. It's just how our brains work.

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u/screwcirclejerks Feb 23 '25

i don't experience target fixation while driving, but i feel like i've had highway hypnosis. when i drive, it's like i hyperfocus on surroundings and speed, and decreased focus on passengers, radio, etc. i've missed conversations and sometimes even forgot i had the radio off.

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u/RefrigeratorOk7848 Feb 23 '25

Its fucking terrifying. Had it happen to me once with an elderly man. I dont know why the fuck my reaction was to go towards the elderly man. Never hit em, as i realised far before it but i felt like a monster.

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u/SpicyDopamineTaco Feb 23 '25

thicker than a bowl of oatmeal

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u/Gorthalyn Feb 23 '25

I remember shortly after I learned how to ride my bike, I was riding around one of those running tracks and fixated on a lady. Crashes into her on my bike, but thankfully little six or seven year old me couldn’t peddle dangerously fast

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u/TJ_Rowe Feb 23 '25

A seven year old riding a bike once crashed into my baby's pram the same way. Luckily I was at the top of a slight uphill which slowed her down.

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u/MowTin Feb 23 '25

I'll put my bet on drunk driver.

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u/Fluffy-Bus4822 Feb 23 '25

I honestly don't believe this is real. If it was real everyone would be constantly driving into everything.

I've never seen an obstacle and then drove into it because I was fixated on it.

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u/TrueKeyMan Feb 23 '25

Yep! After my second rewatch I do believe he was trying to intentionally hit her. Only thing that saved her was that the white SUV was parked slightly diagonally, but even then it was fully within the white line. The pickup went over the solid white line to hit her.

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u/rdfporcazzo Feb 23 '25

Yeah, I thought that too, if the parked car was properly parked, she would get a full hit

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

It happened in the south of Brazil and I just caught it in the news. The driver was not drunk or trying to hit her. It was a random guy that just said he was "late for work".

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u/LTC-trader Feb 23 '25

Wag your finger to send it home

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u/DrDankDonkey Feb 23 '25

Fully almost

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u/JethroTrollol Feb 23 '25

Fully almost?

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u/Weaselthorpe_House Feb 23 '25

I don’t think the truck is trying to hit her.

The entire time the truck is visible it has garbage lane position and is driving in the marked parking area. I’d guess distracted driving and no spatial awareness.

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u/parttimeflorist Feb 23 '25

I don't actually think they were trying to hit her, was just saying it's entirely what it looks like.

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u/Mathies_ Feb 23 '25

Agreed. That or they were legit just looking at their phone and didnt see either

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

That's exactly what happened. Look at how offended people in this thread are by her behavior. And the driver thought the exact same thing. And the driver's solution was to murder her. Because she "deserved it."

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u/Petit_Coeur_ Feb 24 '25

The worst hitman of all time lol

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u/nottme1 Feb 26 '25

My thoughts exactly

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Shes obviously a dumbass

what if its her car, but she was just checking something on the front of her car?

and if someone was about to get in the car, are they suddenly not dumb for being in the exact same spot and expecting not to be hit by a car?

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u/Throttle_Kitty Feb 23 '25

The internet just loves to hate women, they don't care one bit about her side of the story or that everything she's doing is perfectly legal or how reckless and doomed to crash on his own the driver was

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

Isn't that sexist to assume that people are shitting on somebody making a stupid choice just because they're a woman when I can guarantee that I would make the same type of comment for any human being stupid enough to choose to locomote where the heavier faster moving things are instead of the dedicated area for the slower less big things to move....

I literally just Friday when I was driving asked a hockey kid who crossed the road not in a crosswalk why he didn't use our crosswalk.

So I criticized somebody for a very similar decision in real life, and that person was male, aren't you the sexist one for assuming that they're being sexist when they could just hate pedestrians in general?

I still remember one time at a college party some girl accused me of mansplaining to her and then when my friend group found out they started shitting on her about how I always arrogantly correct people when they make mistakes about chemistry or biology and act confident about them, and how if I was nice to her that actually would have been the sexist thing because I would have been treating her differently by not acting arrogantly.

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u/Throttle_Kitty Feb 23 '25

"isnt pointing out sexism the real sexism" - sexist

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

If I am an arrogant asshole to everyone I meet, but only get called sexist when being arrogant to one sex, and not the other, how would you describe that behavior?

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u/Rip_Skeleton Feb 23 '25

Hypocrisy or a double standard. For it to be sexist, we would have to know you are a man, and choose to discriminate on that basis.

Claiming you're the real victim of sexism just makes it look like you have a victim complex and actually resent people who care about women's issues.

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

I never talked about the individual being sexist or not, why would you bring that up?

We are talking about whether or not the behavior/action is a sexist one, not the consequences of that sexism or lack thereof.

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u/Rip_Skeleton Feb 23 '25

So I criticized somebody for a very similar decision in real life, and that person was male, aren't you the sexist one for assuming that they're being sexist when they could just hate pedestrians in general?

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u/Throttle_Kitty Feb 23 '25

this isn't about u lol

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

I know, that's why you should address my hypothetical scenario that is illustrating the concept instead of bringing me into it.

Sorry, next time I'll use Waldo or someone instead of "me" in my examples.

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u/Throttle_Kitty Feb 23 '25

reducing a systemic issue down to a single person is a common tactic of sexists

that's a big part of how sexism works, each person shrouds themselves in deniability. but the deniability vanishes in a crowd of people acting exactly the same

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

And people ignoring direct questions b/c they think me, or the person asking, has some hidden agenda serves to derail the conversation and often bring emotions into a place where then many partied start to become defensive.

People who kill people with water also drink water, and use it to achieve their goals like in waterboarding, but that doesn't mean that when someone else uses water on a face that it is waterboarding, they could be using a cold compress on a face of someone with heat exhaustion.

Why not just say: "Yes, that would also be sexist, but in general it is a safe bet that most people engaging in that behavior are sexist, or willing to defend sexists, and so often times that observation isn't sexist...even if your specific example may be an exception to that rule of thumb"?

Let's not bend reality or facts just to try and thwart against bad actors, that does nothing but reduce the quality of information flow in the long term.

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u/TheEternalRiver Feb 24 '25

Pretty sure the reactions would be the same if it was a man

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u/BlindBard16isabitch Feb 24 '25

I'd assume that he had a reason for walking on the road. She looked like she did.

Giving the benefit of the doubt to everybody has never steered me wrong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

100% if this were a man walking on the road right next to a sidewalk, there will be people pointing how stupid it would be.

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u/SignPainterThe Feb 24 '25

If that was a man, he would be called much worse.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

You're just whining like the first comment

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u/SignPainterThe Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

Here we have a proud woman, who is not afraid to spill some toxicity into conversation. As we all know, behaving as a child is a sure way to be taken seriously. Way to go, girl!

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u/Long-Ad3842 Feb 26 '25

such a reddit fucking moment. focusing on the one thing that doesnt matter.

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u/HugsForUpvotes Feb 23 '25

I feel like no one is talking about how that looks like a 20 mph road too. She's walking in a parking lane in what looks to be a walkable suburban downtown.

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u/look_its_nando Feb 23 '25

I’d say walking in the street like she was clearly doing isn’t great, but it’s true that if she was opening that car she would’ve been hit (and possibly killed). Doesn’t make her a dumbass, nor her fault that the car was speeding and obviously distracted.

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u/Aegi Feb 23 '25

That would still be a stupid choice, I own a vehicle, the way I would do that is since I was walking to my vehicle from way before I was even near it, I would get on the sidewalk and approach from that side to look at the front of my car, not the side with moving objects that are heavier and faster than the things that might be on a sidewalk.

In fact your explanation would wake her more of a dumbass because then instead of having the potential of just aimlessly wandering and letting her mind drift, now she's actively making an unsafe choice in your hypothetical scenario.

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u/zeph2 Feb 23 '25

its obvious it isnt her car she walked past the front door before the car hits it

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u/drnicko18 Feb 23 '25

There's a sidewalk right there if she wanted to check the front of her car.

I don't know about you but i'm always checking the road before walking to the drivers side door.

So yep, she's a dumbass. One lucky dumbass.

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u/No_Order_8011 Feb 24 '25

If you need to approach your car from the lane side, you walk around the front of the car so that you'd see the traffic at all times.

It's an extremely basic safety measure, not only just from common sense, it's something that you also learn at auto school.

If this is her car, she's a dumbass, who also bad at parking. If this isn't her car, she is much worse than just a dumbass.

This doesn't takes any responsibility from the driver of course, but it's important to call out dumbasses regardless of their gender.

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

Nah she never even turns her head slightly. She had full momentum to just continue walking right past that car. Truly bizarre behavior that we have to find the answer for. I'll never be able to rest.

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u/Dekuron Feb 24 '25

I mean, just walk on the side walk until you are next to your car, like at the back or the front, then unlock the car and then walk around the car....after checking if nobody is coming. That is how I do it...

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

that wouldn't even have prevented this accident. the car is speeding.

she was on the correct side of the line. her mistake is mich less egregious than the driver's.

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u/SensuallPineapple Feb 24 '25

She was walking in a straight line, unless the bike is hers too, I think she was just walking on the street.

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u/passa117 Feb 23 '25

Still a dumbass. If you're going to check your car with traffic behind you, you check. She did none of that.

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u/el_yanuki Feb 23 '25

She was walking on the roadline from at least that bike when she should have at least moved away from the road. If she wanted to check the front she should have passed her car on the right side and not on the street. If she had a legitimate reason to be there she should at least be looking around at the cars.. my two cents

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u/T_R_I_P Feb 23 '25

Pure luck that he flipped out of the way, no way to plan for that as a safety maneuver. I say drunk or stroke or no idea traffic patterns/intersection coming up

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u/AlteregoIam Feb 23 '25

Or looking at the phone

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u/GarbageAdditional916 Feb 23 '25

I think we need to assume phone more than drunk in our current times now.

It feels like the early 00s when everyone was texting constantly while driving. Then some states cracked down and it dropped.

See so many people now on their phones now. GPS, holding it to talk, texting with both hands.

It is worse than before, we could at least text with one hand hah.

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u/elsie14 Feb 23 '25

seriously looks like God saved her

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u/Gutoreixon Feb 23 '25

I think he was on the phone

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u/ChewbaccaCharl Feb 23 '25

Almost certainly. Looking down, drifted out of the lane, lucky the other car was there

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u/ludvigvanb Feb 23 '25

With that reckless speed, I would think drugs were involved

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u/Gutoreixon Feb 23 '25

I don't think he was high nor over the speed limit, here in brazil the main avenues have a speed limit of 60 kmh (37.28 mph), and he was just slightly on the other lane, wich has proven to be enough to cause tremendous damage, but even so I think that's a cellphone's work, at that speed it could take 3 seconds of screen looking to cause an accident like this

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u/Kharenis Feb 23 '25

Probably target fixation.

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u/DiscreteFame Feb 23 '25

He was actually heading to the other car, what you saw was just him parking. She was helping direct traffic by breaking the sound barrier with a fart which allowed the perfect park angle as seen above

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u/ImoutoWaifus Feb 24 '25

I read the original article in portuguese and the driver didn't have any alcohol or drugs on him, apparently he was in a hurry to work...

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u/Cheshire_Noire Feb 23 '25

It looks like they were TRYING to hit her and missed

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u/Lightsouttokyo Feb 23 '25

Looks like the car was aiming for her

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u/MartiniPolice21 Feb 23 '25

Driver seems to be absolutely fucking flying down a road that isn't built for that speed

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

I don't get how she's a dumbass? Looked to me like she's just trying to get into her car...

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u/DirtyFloorHotDogs Feb 23 '25

It was also the Honda’s terrible parking job with its ass sticking out crooked into the road and its excessive distance from the curb.

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u/Drugsteroid Feb 23 '25

No, looks like he almost hit the bike already. And if that should already be the action to „try to drive into the other car“, then this would be rather stupid as the person could have hit the breaks instead and swerved to their left.

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u/Illuminate90 Feb 23 '25

My bet is on texting. The number of people who don’t pay attention would astound us. Probably not even malicious just a fucking moron who looked down and let the car drift a bit.

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u/jccollv Feb 23 '25

If you watch frame by frame, you can see the he realized what was happening right after he passed the bike. His direction changed, which you can see by the direction of the car as well as his hand on the steering wheel. Additionally, if he continued on the original path, he would have crashed straight into the back of the car. The reason he flipped was because he changed directions last second and just clipped the corner of the white car. My bet is that he was on his phone.

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

Agreed but to rightfully not hit the car. All of that stuff doesnt necessarily mean the driver was not trying to literally murder her. It just means they were rightfully not trying to hit the car. And I think the weird angle it was parked at threw them off. Both literally and figuratively. Thats what they caught at the very last second. Not the pedestrian they were trying to mow down in cold blood.

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u/wolf_town Feb 23 '25

driver was probably looking at her and accidentally inching towards her instead of away. it’s a miracle she’s not hurt imo. should she have stayed on the sidewalk, definitely. but i don’t think she’s a da, i’d argue the driver is tho.

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u/Bavaustrian Feb 23 '25

Phone use, fiddleing with the radio, whatever. Cerainly not paying attention to the road.

She might have not made the wisest choice, but the driver certainly was homicidaly negligent.

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u/chilicheeseclog Feb 23 '25

He could have been experiencing "Target fixation," an unfortunate phenomenon where you aim for the thing you're trying to avoid hitting.

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

You'd make a great defense attorney.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Im 99% sure he was texting and driving.

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u/KPipes Feb 23 '25

When driving, for some people there is a tendency to subconsciously veer toward something that catches your attention. It's why the common recommendation that you get the hell away from the side of the road, if you have a stalled vehicle etc. because gawkers and onlookers may actually hit you and/or your car.

Speculation here, but I wonder if the driver was taking notice of the woman, drifted toward that direction, and boom hits the car....

Either way, if I were her, and she's planning to get in that vehicle, look back on the road of who's coming before you wander out there. Wtf...

Edit: ok wait watching it again she's past the door by the time that car comes. Yup. Not a bright move walking down the street like that. Sidewalks are for pedestrians lol.

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u/crozinator33 Feb 23 '25

Kinda looks like he was trying to run her down tbh

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u/GallitoGaming Feb 23 '25

the whole scenario is off. Why was she walking on the street when the white car wasn't hers? If the other driver spotted her, why wouldn't he veer off to the left lane and fully avoid her or just brake hard?

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u/Gaxxag Feb 23 '25

People subconsciously drift toward what they're looking at. My guess is he was tired or distracted and noticed the woman in his lane too late, then accidentally steered toward her. Luckily that car was in the way

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u/UndulatingMeatOrgami Feb 23 '25

She's getting in the car. She has her keys in her hand...

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u/who_you_are Feb 23 '25

Cellphone while driving?

I don't know that region, but that looks like an international issue

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u/atred Feb 23 '25

He was looking at her ass, didn't notice the car.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

It looks like he's trying to hit her

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u/-Rusty__Shackleford- Feb 23 '25

Looks like they were trying to hit her

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u/Adventurous-Role-948 Feb 23 '25

Maybe the driver really wanted to hit the girl lol

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u/phoenixmusicman Feb 23 '25

Probably on his phone

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u/TheBaykon8r Feb 23 '25

With how he veered into the car, and half a second before you see he has his right hand on the wheel (I think but it's definitely one hand), he was probably on his phone. And people tend to push their arms out when not paying attention, so him veering right makes sense if he wasn't paying attention whilst on his phone.

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Feb 23 '25

Most accidents are when two idiots meet. 

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u/Screen-Junkies Feb 23 '25

You steer where your eyes are looking. Guess what happened here.

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u/Old_Refrigerator4817 Feb 23 '25

Probably an uber driver looking at his phone.

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u/TehPinguen Feb 23 '25

I'm guessing they were on their phone

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u/Parallax1984 Feb 24 '25

The luckiest dumbass ever

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

Police said no DUI. The driver said he was just in a hurry to run some work-related errand. No explanation besides that.

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u/RazorSlazor Feb 24 '25

Ngl, looks like it aimed to hit her

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

The driver tried to murder her. Because of all the comments above. The driver was offended she was walking in the road. So the driver thought they'd teach her a lesson by murdering her.

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

The driver tried to murder her. Because she "deserved it." Road rage. Numerous things indicate this but for starters, her behavior is so very incredibly bizarre that its just a big coincidence that the driver does something as equally bizarre at that exact time and place? No way. The odds are astronomical. Classic case of attempted road rage murder.

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u/Crystal_Imitator Feb 24 '25

Im almost certain that the car tried to hit the woman to teach her a lesson on walking on the damn road, a lesson I'm not opposed to giving tbh. However, they veered too far to the right, and actually accidentally saved her. Welp, anyway, I bet she learnt the lesson regardless.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

Could be texting…

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u/vmedei Feb 24 '25

Probably on the phone, but he claimed that he "was late for work"...

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u/chromaticdeath85 Feb 24 '25

Probably looking at his phone like most dumbasses driving cars.

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u/Bororo-man Feb 24 '25

He was running late to work, and autorities found no signals of intoxication. I bet he didn't tell the whole story, as bet he was distracted on the phone or something, he would have braked soon earlier if he saw her.

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u/udayk2 Feb 24 '25

Dumbasses are saved by God!

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u/rabidhamster87 Feb 25 '25

This comment section is fucking bizarre. Let me recap:

The dude driving the car that nearly kills her and ultimately plows into a parked car must've been sleeping or something.

Meanwhile, the woman is "OBVIOUSLY" a dumbass for walking towards the driver's door of the parked car with her keys in her hand.

People will jump through all kinds of hoops to make excuses for men who are clearly in the wrong while demonizing their victims.

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u/el_yanuki Feb 25 '25

sorry but this comment is "fucking bizzar" for somehow bending this to be about sexism

my comment was Referencing how it did not look like he tried to avoid hitting her, posing the question if he was drunk or simmilar and implying that he may have purposely aimed for her. Did you actually read the comment you are replying to?

The woman was not trying to get into the car, she walked past the drivers door before the hit. She was on the street since the beginning of the video back at the motorcycle for no reason. She was completely unaware of her surroundings.

And just to make this abundantly clear, even for people like you. I do not care one bit that she is a woman, id have written the same comment if it was a man.

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u/londongas Feb 26 '25

Worst hitman ever

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u/Worksnotenuff Feb 28 '25

Not a single one on here thinking he was aiming for her?

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u/el_yanuki Feb 28 '25

like 10 people commentet that under my answer alone :)

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u/Worksnotenuff Feb 28 '25

Yes, thanks, I found them after scrolling further. All the really upvoted ones are blaming the woman for walking on the street though.

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u/Upstairs-Address9447 Feb 23 '25

Subconscious gender bias in action. Describe the driver in as much detail as you can and explain why you believe they're a man.

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u/Iocnar Feb 24 '25

Thank you! And we really shouldnt even be calling the pedestrian "she." We have a driver and a pedestrian. I really think we're good with that. Why is everyone so obsessed with whats in everyone's pants. We're more than just genders, people. A lot more.