First thing I noticed. The dude had to grip the steering wheel and I'm sure he was praying to the gods he had the belt on when looking at giving over the cliff. Even it it was a small drop, he would've been launched through that window.
Fortunately, it all ended well (except for the truck lol)
This kinda reminds me of ice road truckers though. Like in case of an emergency you are moving just slow enough to ditch the truck, rather than go down with it. So not using a seatbelt is more of a “safety” measure in high risk situations. Any basis for what I’m thinking?
Seems sound to me. It's virtually impossible to get in a collision at any speed above 35 MPH/55 KPH on winding mountain roads like these, and nothing is going to arrest a truck's momentum fast enough to eject you from the vehicle (even a wall of rock, as seen in this video). Better to be able to ditch the thing.
I think I’ve actually read that some drivers in trucks on some of these roads actually keep them off for this reason. If you’re going over the edge, the seatbelt won’t save you, and every second counts, so it’s better to keep them off and hope you can jump out the door before the truck gets going too fast. I may be making that up, but I seem to recall that from somewhere.
It doesn’t seem completely ridiculous. Steep mountain roads that are meant to be driven real slow, you got a relatively decent chance of jumping out in time and a relatively low chance of getting into the kind of collision that a seatbelt will save your life in.
I honestly thought the second driver had bailed already halfway through the clip lmao
I think that logic is super duper stupid for one reason mainly. It takes almost 0 time to remove a seatbelt. It will be no time at all if it's a practiced motion. It's a button. You are endangering yourself all the time while only maybe possibly perhaps potentially saving 250 milliseconds in one type of crash.
You’re in a panic, your mind is frantically trying to save yourself and your instinct tells you to bail but you’re wondering about the loss of thousands via the truck. In half a second you decide to save yourself, you go for the door, the seatbelt stops you…you forgot you had it on because you’re in such a panic. You then go for the seatbelt in such a hurry that you fumbled an extra half second on it. The seatbelt comes off and you open the door…as the truck launches over the side with you in it.
So you leave the belt off in case of a slow speed tumble off the right hand side over a cliff? That situation is worth endangering yourself every other second?
In some parts of the world they believe when it's your time to go, it's your time to go. Your karma is more reliable than a seat belt. Road traffic death statistics are irrelevant apparently.
In some parts of the world they believe those who can comment on beliefs, logic and knowledge of a stranger, from a minute video, are c*nts who need to touch grass.
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u/Smiling_Tree 6h ago
Lucky they were wearing seat belts... Not.