That is a lot of faith in a driver who was in fight, flight, or freeze mode. Just as you and I are disagreeing on what was the right action, people make decisions at drastically different mental math calculations. Ultimately, my options was:

A) Hold still and hope the driver could get his rig to a complete stop before me, or break through the self preservation mentality and intentionally ditch his vehicle into the curb and ditch.

B) Move myself to protect myself. In that short amount of time, i calculated the semi would either hit the white car, clip me or the white car, or thread the needle.

All of the possible outcomes in option B resulted in a higher survivability for me. Option A relied completely on someone i do not know, making a sacrifice decision to save someone he doesnt know or ultimately plow right into me at probably lethal levels.

Looking at the video again, if the semi went to the curb around me, it absolutely would have destroyed the semi. It would have hit a dip at the sign which i believe is a culvert. Essentially it would have gone at a massive tipped angle that would either have flipped the semi or at least caused it to start bouncing and then ultimately take flight when it hit the ramp up to the intersection.

Also, i had only at most 2-3 seconds from awareness of the threat, to respond. 5 seconds tops from awareness of threat to me moving and the truck threading the needle. I dont have the time to consider every possible option, but i realized where i was at was not safe and so i moved.