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Comment by mindslight

People often let their attention be corrupted by focusing on the wrong thing. The stopped line of cars looks pretty safe to turn through, right? I wouldn't even be surprised if the stopped driver was waving the turning driver on to "be nice".

Despite having set cruise control below the numeric speed limit, the Tesla is still (almost) speeding by driving too fast for the conditions (passing a line of stopped cars). I'm not a big fan of this reasoning, but there's justification for it. In this situation the turning driver should have obviously seen the oncoming car and yielded, but someone taking the same turn in the opposite direction would never have been able to see the Tesla.

parent mindslight 11 years ago

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