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matsemann | 3 days ago

> Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate.

From the article. Then goes on to show exactly how they're inconsiderate with maths. How they're not seeing it is baffling.

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cbdevidal|3 days ago

Seems to me that the slower truck is really the inconsiderate one here. If you’re already slower, tap the brakes a little and let the other guy slide in.

JoachimS|3 days ago

Or just take the foot of the pedal for a while.

cucumber3732842|2 days ago

> How they're not seeing it is baffling.

It's like when a big co says "now we care greatly about the environment" before going on to detail their plan for something that's laughably bad for it.

They see it. They just phrased the article that way because they don't want to catch hand wringing and hate comments from every idiot who does the exact same thing in their car with slightly different values for the variables outlined and without any of the physics/economics excuses to justify it.

Edit: I hope. I can't read minds, you may very well be right and they don't see it.