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that was nearly a miss
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Jesus, well done to that truck driver. Hopefully that scared the shit out of that kid and he learned a lesson.
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How about those brakes?! That truck is impressive!
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those brakes have been standard for 2+ decades now on european trucks and buses. the problem now is tire traction, not braking power. we need goverment regulations to force trucks to have higher end tires. many cars have trouble to out-brake a modern truck or bus that is rolling on premium tires. this is truly a situation where the “ye olden tymes” thinking (of trucks have bad brakes) actually is dead wrong and has been for a long ass time.
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Unless you live in the states. then “ye olden times” of trucks having bad brakes is more true now than it has ever been.
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The 200 foot skidmarks all over the highway are proof enough of that
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If the tires left skids, then the brakes werent the issue
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Not necessarily true. Old braking systems lock the wheels. Then the driver jack knifes and you get those nice diagonal marks stretching half a mile into a barrier or off the shoulder. I don’t care what kind of premium rubber you have under there, if you lock them under that much weight, you’re getting pretty much identical results
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untrue. The problem here is that the trailer isn’t fitted with (functional) ABS, so when the driver stomps the brakes, the semi/tractor does ABS, but the trailer wheels lock.
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Every trailer I’ve ever carried is fitted with ABS. Most warehouses and loading companies wont accept trailers that are older than 10 years.
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Trailers do have ABS it’s actually the law and has been for awhile
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I don’t understand then why they always lock. What’s happening here? blown air line?
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Brakes get too hot and cheap/old tires
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that kid left a skid mark in his pants.
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The problem with the US is, that most Truck drivers are basically thier own logistic company. Which sounds great if the profits are good, but with low profit margins and high competition, there is very little room for investment. Imagine a plumber would have to invest $500.000k or more to even start working. In field were you need decades to earn that kind of money. Plus they get exploited like hell, by big companies offering transport jobs, since then hold so little bargaining power
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new US trucks don’t have that BAS system (emergency braking, with or without radar)? damn. i remember old volvo videos from probably 2010 or so (basically if it detects that it might be an emergency braking situation, it applies brakes 100%).
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I mean, this truck was also probably going like maybe 30mph? Trucks on highways in the US are routinely going 70+
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This. I drive a truck. My truck stops on a freaking dime. Except in the rain or snow. In which case, watch out.
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In the US – One of my first “real adult” purchases was a dedicated set of summer and winter tires, where the summer tires are a high performance / semi-slick type. I drive a pretty basic car, but it’s nice having absolute confidence in my ability to stop on a dime if needed. The stock tires would easily spin out in rain when accelerating.
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semi slick (like michelin cup or whatever) are way worse in the wet than normal tires. probably even cheap chinese tires are better. michelin pilot sport 4/ 5 are the best for summer tires imo.
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Continental SportContact 7 outperforms pretty much everything in tests. Went from 20 inch wheels with old SC 5 tires to 18 inch with SC 7. The grip on the new ones is fantastic, although I did get some wheel spin at 80kmh on wet road today.
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Sport Cup 2 are absolutely amazing in the rain, all up until the very moment they are not. Michelin PS4/5/etc are very very good, but tend to be more cost than value, IMO. I would usually go for something like a 320-400TW from Continental, Hankook, etc for half the price, or go for a Michelin AS3/4/etc if you’re going anywhere a bit more chilly. But we can talk tires all day long haha
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Damn i heard otherwise for cup 2, but i believe you.
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There is no way stock tires are worse in rainy conditions than semi slicks. Just no way.
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no one said that
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I can’t tell you how many 18 wheelers I’ve passed by that their tires are completely fucking bald.
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Volvo. This clip has been immensely good PR for them.
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Volvo truck. Best brakes in class.
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I was driving home from work once and this kid on a skateboard came zooming off the sidewalk right in front of me. I think he was trying to jump it off the curb and more focused on that than checking if the road was clear. I wasn’t going that fast in the first place (neighborhood roads) and was slowing down because I saw him, but still. A decently abrupt stop that end with you 8 feet from a car you didn’t even try to see coming is still a pants shitter. He and I made eye contact and I could tell with the look on his face that nothing further needed to be done, because that lesson got burned in.
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Humbled I hope, he won’t do that again! If he does, well…
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/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid That is legit terrifying. Those kids look old enough that you’d expect getting off the bus and crossing the street is something they have done *many* times before. I would have thought “look both ways before you cross the street” would have been pretty well drilled into them by that point, especially on a road like that with a decent amount of traffic. I’ve heard several times that a big part of raising a kid is simply trying to keep someone alive that acts like a drunken idiot hell-bent on suicide. I guess I always figured those tendencies would have diminished by the time they’re school aged, but I guess that’s not always the case.
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Sometimes kids just get distracted and do something like this when every other day they’d look both ways 5 times before thinking about crossing.
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Iirc from the articles a few years back its the truck automatic sensoring and braking doing the work. But the truck driver sure is happy it stopped in time.
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And I heard the truck manufacturer confirmed it was the driver and even commended then for their reflexes, as their systems couldn’t have detected the kid and braked on time. That’s just what I read online tho, I’ve never bothered to confirm.
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From [Norwegian news](https://www.nrk.no/buskerud/ingen-nodbrems-slo-inn-_-sjaforen-hindret-pakjorselen-1.13779646) about the video: >Volvo Norway clarified that their emergency braking system is not activated in such situations: >“It was not the Volvo Emergency Brake system that was triggered,” wrote communications manager Torstein Magelssen in an email to NRK. According to Volvo Norway, this system is not designed to activate, nor can it activate, when encountering a pedestrian. >“We have engaged on Facebook pages because some people there commented that the Volvo Emergency Brake had prevented a fatal accident. But that is not correct. **The Volvo Emergency Brake does not work on pedestrians**. We have said that thanks to two alert drivers and a modern truck with first-class brakes, the catastrophe was prevented,” Magelssen wrote.
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Honestly impressive they even made a truck that can stop that quickly and the honesty is always commendable.
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Volvo does not mess around when it comes to safety, and props to the maintenance and drivers of that truck.
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European Trucks in general are more efficient and save due to competition. Always crazy, when you hear, that american Trucks, with thier low gas prices, costs more per Km and Kilo than european Trucks.
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It isn’t due to competition. It’s regulation.
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regulation says they need to use less fuel, but competition is what makes them have more horse power than american big fat trucks.
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boxy, but good. EDIT This was an ad campaign by Volvo in the 80s. They dropped a car nose first from a crane and then started it up.
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Has to do with regulations. Trucks have a maximum length in the EU so they maximise the cargo space by making boxy trucks. Unlike the US where regulations are more like guidelines and they can waste some space on a long nose for the trucks since no one cares about the total length.
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And then you have the extended frame sleeper cabs that have the rear axles a good 30ft behind the steers. Trucks are so fuckin long its ridiculous.
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Sometimes they get even more ridiculous than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsZ6YPsPpj0
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It is extremely important that they make sure everyone – especially drivers – know that their breaks do not detect humans this way. The last thing you want is someone thinking it will work that way, – when it doesn’t. And just generally, you don’t rumors, mistaken info, or misinformation getting passed around about your very expensive product, especially when it’s something easily proved incorrect (and likely would be given the industry).
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Compare it to the rubbish outdated trucks that the US insists on using. If they let European manufacturers sell in the US they would make a killing
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Volvo braking is next level in trucks. Edit: that e came out of nowhere…
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Seems intact to me. What are you on about?
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How can you see it spelled correctly 100 times in this thread and still fuck it up? *BRAKING
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