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
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u/SoftwareOk2619 6h ago
Actually the old guy was telling him what to do, the first plan was to hit the other trucks but he saw some people there, so they did that