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  • Baku
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    7 months ago

    Holy fuck there was a car accident right in front of my house. I’ve never seen a car crash in person before, it was louder than I thought

    Nobody seems to be hurt

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      7 months ago

      It started leaking oil so the fire brigade came out to sweep it up with sand. I’d already called 000 and the Ambos had already arrived before I write the above comment btw

      The cops are slow as usual, but they just called to get further info. The ambos arrived first and they’re still here, I overheard them saying they’re waiting for police

      The dude driving the car rear ended a van that’s parked across the road, nobody was in it luckily, and the driver seemed fine, just a bit dazed

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        7 months ago

        Had something similar happen outside my place a few days ago. The bloke over the road had his legally parked bmw flipped clean across the street into the street tree outside my house by a carful of idiots driving too fast through the roundabout in the rain. Horrible noise, the death throes of beautiful engineering. Again, thank goodness, no one was hurt.

        • Baku
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          7 months ago

          Jesus Christ that sounds horrific… This wasn’t that bad, seems to have been fairly low speed, but it was freaky to witness

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            7 months ago

            All is well that ends well. No one hurt - the only real damage was to the cars and the insurance companies. I agree it can be freaky to see what really happens when a small error of judgement is made on the road. Then you see bad behaviour on the freeway/main roads and wonder when they’ll fail to get lucky.

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              7 months ago

              Driving is one thing that I really look forward to AI taking over. I think my kids will be the last generation to learn how to drive. It’s weird, AI is being held to a much stronger standard than humans. It is already better than human drivers, but it seems it won’t take over until it’s near perfect.

              Humans can drive really well, until they get fatigued or distracted and then they suck. But if a robot vehicle has an accident, whose fault is it? The owner of the vehicle? Or the company who makes the AI? This, and whatever we will do with the thousands of people who make a living driving are among the burning questions we need to resolve.

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              7 months ago

              Sometimes you drive past the times when they weren’t lucky and it really sits with you…

    • PeelerSheila
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      7 months ago

      It’s an arresting sound for sure, especially out the front of your house. It happened years ago out front of a place I lived in a real quiet side street. Basically a situation where one car has to pull over and let the other car through because there wasn’t enough room and neither car did, so they had a really slow head-on collision. Myself and neighbours went out front to scratch our heads and ponder the 2 sheepish and embarrassed drivers!

      • Baku
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        7 months ago

        I’m not positive on the story, but it seems that the driver was distracted and didn’t see the van parked on the side of the road so rear ended it when he turned the corner right in front of it. Super happy nobody was injured