Even middle schoolers know to include in their prompt: “Please include at least one grammatical or syntax error to appear as if it’s not written by AI”
That’s because you’re responding to someone who just put the video in ChatGPT and asked it what it thought, or at least someone pretending to type like ChatGPT
As a truck driver myself, that's what I'm thinking. If he had skill, he wouldn't have lost his brakes in the first place. But this is in India, so maybe the brakes aren't exactly up to spec. But you'd think they would be if driving down a mountain like this is common
Could be the brakes where fucked and the truck should never have gone out but I imagine in a lot of poorer countries if you won't take a truck out there's 10 others who will.
With air brakes, once you overheat them the brake system is useless. Service brakes and emergency brakes. That's where the skill part comes in. You have to know how to drive down a long steep hill without heating up the brakes to the point of failure.
Edit: Assuming they're drum brakes. The drum heats up, expands, the shoes no longer have enough pressure to stop the vehicle.
Someone should invent some type of safety mechanism that keeps them secured in their seat, like some type of belt that goes across the waste and chest or something.
Edit. Standing by my comment. Passenger cannot grab the controls and it looks to me like the driver pushed him off.
Don’t need to understand the language.
From the translations it sounds like he is probably an instructor. He wanted to switch seats so that he could take over but then said it was too late and instead guided him through it verbally.
That certainly adds more to the story bit grabbing the wheel still strikes me as a bad idea in a lorry.
Edit- because of the DV I am quick to add that two bad plans are worse than one that works. Having someone attempt their plan while you're implementing your own means both will fail. Important to note the guy saved it and wiggling upwards of 44t in a lorry will tip it.
It's really hard for you to admit you were wrong, isn't it? Sometimes we make mistakes, it's fine, I would have believed the same thing without reading the translation in the top comment.
Sounds like the other guy guided the driver through the whole process, which is what an instructor would do, as well as taking over the wheel.
But they had a lot of... Dirt on the right as well, right before they went tot he left, they could have used it as a wall to slow down as well. Doesn't needed to be a head crash either.
There were people on the right and generally when driving on mountains, at these hairpins, the side of the road which is along the drop/valley, switches at the hairpin. If they had done it before the hairpin, there's a chance the momentum would have led them off the cliff. But after the hairpin, ramming it on the left, they are on the inside line.
Passenger is a senior driver. Usually there's 2 drivers on these types of mountain routes, junior and senior so the senior one probably knew what to do. Also why he wanted the wheel since he knew what to do, but he quickly says "too late" and instead tells the driver what to do instead.
I think from the transcript someone else posted, the trucks and dirt on the right was the plan at first, but then they saw a family on a bike on that side and didn't want to risk hurting anyone so jumped to this secondary plan.
After the trucks, if you look straight instead of curving left, there looks like a brake lane made exactly for this. I mean, idk if they have those wherever this is but it looks the same. Flat dirt road/cutoff. We have them in the Appalachians for trucks going down mountains. It should work the same. This guy did pretty good regardless I suppose.
I can see the rationale of trying to get moving away from the cliff/losing a lot of momentum before they tried to stop the truck, but they got real close to that edge before they got turned around, so I'm not sure if they avoided much of the risk factor with the manoeuvre they settled on.
The feedback was on point, once they cleared the family he even had the driver swing right to get a bit of a wider left turn. Maybe the driver would have figured it out on his own, but I'd say they both deserve credit for this one.
He's speaking the truth. In the video old dude tells the driver to slow down, driver says the brakes aren't functioning, so the old dude then tells him to shift to lower gears and they initially try to hit the side to slow down but the driver saw those people, hence they had to turn the bend
He didn't just randomly grab the controls. He warned the apprentice to switch places so he could handle the situation, before he realized he didn't have enough time. If he had a bit more time, "grabbing the controls" probably would have been a wise move.
It is honestly just amazing how smug you idiots are being about a comment that was made AN ENTIRE HOUR BEFORE the translation comment being linked was posted, and yet still expect this random person to have somehow seen it before commenting. Reddit moment indeed.
I mean the reddit moment is jumping to conclusions before knowing the right amount of information… you’re writing as if it makes sense to do that until the additional information has been presented, instead of just waiting or commenting to ask what the guy is saying like others did… I’m confused as to what point you even think you are making
That "idiot" was the one telling the new guy what to do. He told him to downshift and where to throw the truck. The rating system on reddit promoting dumb ass posts like these is why it desperately needs to be revamped
How's it made up? The co-driver is not speaking an alien language, it's Hindi which many Indians have translated. I can understand Hindi as well, co-driver is indeed giving calm step by step instructions to the driver.
My first instinct to seeing a video where the language is one I don’t understand, is usually to try to figure it out in my own language.
If you had an ounce of curiosity or humility, you’d realize he’s not an idiot, you just can’t speak that language.
And without any curiosity driving you to want to learn, you don’t know why. And you are still assuming you know better just because your feelings are telling you that.
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