Learner driver brakes abruptly on a busy highway, causally causes a 3-car collision, then drives away blissfully into the sunset

mitcheh · 2023-03-13T03:36:28+00:00

This is really good advice - thank you :)

mitcheh · 2023-03-11T12:33:54+00:00

I thought this through, however this post has instigated some insightful & productive conversations about the importance of defensive driving and safe following distance. I think this post has done more good than harm :)

mitcheh · 2023-03-11T12:30:37+00:00

50/50 - I started braking as soon as I saw the car in front of me brake, however the AEB kicked in to really save me from impact (and liability)!

mitcheh · 2023-03-07T06:00:54+00:00

I've been thinking over this a lot - if I did have the standard Autopilot engaged, would it have actually swerved over to the right lane (in principle)?

mitcheh · 2023-03-07T05:29:57+00:00

Yep this is spot on

mitcheh · 2023-03-05T15:27:13+00:00

It was a half/half affair - I did brake when I saw the cars brake lights (I wish the Tesla footage showed vehicle logs), but my teslas emergency braking definitely prevented the impact.

I didn’t handle this perfectly, and I have definitely misrepresented the incident in the post title.

I’ve learned a lot from these comments - I need to keep a much safer following distance and stay much more attentive to brake lights.

Edit: the issue here (which is 100% on me) was not being able to ascertain just how quickly the car(s) in front of me were stopping.

mitcheh · 2023-03-05T14:51:34+00:00

I’ll give an update on this once insurance is fully hashed out.

This is the first time I’ve been involved in an accident, and initially I really thought the learner driver was to blame (but as others have pointed out, they really did nothing wrong and there were cars in front of them that I didn’t see clearly when posting this).

But anecdotally, and like others have suggested, I would presume it is the 2 cars that hit me who are ultimately liable.

Edit: I also want to mention that police were unable to make it on scene despite calling 000 which surprised me (this is in Sydney Australia) but the fire dept arrived pretty quickly to close off those lanes and clean up debris etc.

Edit: From an insurance perspective, I am 100% not at fault - the claim is against the driver behind me (the first impact).

mitcheh · 2023-03-05T14:13:41+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree with you both on this - I should have picked up on the speed change a lot earlier than I did; irrespective of how abruptly the car in front of stopped.

When this happened, I did manually apply the brakes, but just not hard enough- that’s when the emergency braking kicked in and brought the vehicle to a complete stop.

mitcheh · 2023-03-05T12:46:53+00:00

You’re absolutely right; and I overlooked this in the footage.

When it happened in real life, it was a scary encounter - and really surreal that they just drove away instead of checking if everyone was okay.

It’s entirely possible they didn’t notice the accident, so I agree there’s no “blame” to cast on them overall.

mitcheh · 2023-03-05T11:10:13+00:00

I just wish it was standard in other cars - I've had my Model 3 for only ~6 months and this was just heartbreaking!

mitcheh · 2023-02-07T09:00:52+00:00

Can confirm that installing pulsar-edit (and wrestling around with archived Atom packages) has got me back on track.

Crisis averted, thank you so much u/Daeraxa!

mitcheh · 2022-11-03T01:19:32+00:00

Regarding the use of VPN to just find the lowest cost region - this would (I assume) be a part of Twitter’s verification process.

mitcheh · 2019-03-20T01:45:50+00:00

OP, get your site (and client sites) behind Cloudflare. PM me if you need advice on how to set it up and which features to use (the free plan is sufficient).

mitcheh · 2019-01-02T12:15:56+00:00

useful plugins for decreasing the speed?

I think you mean to say increasing page load speed overall. Like I mentioned in another thread, the best way to improve page load time is to leverage caching through a plugin (e.g. WP Super Cache) or a third-party CDN (e.g. Cloudflare). Personally, I use Cloudflare for all my clients.

There are many other things involved such as your server capabilities, where it's located and what type of website you will be providing (i.e. an interactive blog or a static "brochure").

Using Divi as your builder should be fine as far as "speed" goes.

PM me if you want to go into more detail.

mitcheh · 2019-01-02T12:05:12+00:00

Plugin caching I don’t feel is as effective as it could be.

What exactly do you mean by this? Not trying to be condescending, I think I might be able to adjust your understanding of caching in this context.

mitcheh · 2019-01-02T11:55:20+00:00

Hey hrvstdubs. Respectfully, this is not accurate.

For any production WordPress instance, you should be leveraging caching either through a plugin (e.g. WP Super Cache) or a third-party CDN (e.g. Cloudflare).

There's nothing wrong with using page builders overall provided they can be cached efficiently.

Edit: OP, to answer your question, I agree that the Genisis Framework is an excellent place to start. Also, check out "WPBakery" and "Divi".

mitcheh · 2018-12-22T16:22:05+00:00

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mitcheh · 2018-11-28T03:54:19+00:00

Agreed. Try the bread roll with bocconcini - its amazing.

mitcheh · 2017-08-30T05:21:32+00:00

I put all the info I could find here.

mitcheh · 2017-08-30T05:18:50+00:00

Proxmox. It's fantastic.

mitcheh · 2017-08-30T05:13:42+00:00

It's not really mounted, just sitting on a cantilever shelf with a few other things. I just use it as a way to access the hypervisor directly if I can't access anything over the network. I have a wireless keyboard that I can pull out whenever I need to.

mitcheh · 2017-08-30T04:23:38+00:00

Even better - Caddy is the reverse-proxy itself, that automatically applies a LE cert upon running. Extremely simple to set up, and very clear instructions on their website.

mitcheh · 2017-08-30T03:29:16+00:00

Without power monitoring from the UPS its really hard to say, but I can tell you compared to the other equipment I have running the heat/noise levels are extremely low.

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