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Originally Posted by Traum
Is losing his job all the retribution this sucker would get?
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At the same time the vigilant/mob justice mentality costing someone their job and harassing them after they've been acquitted is pretty fucked. I say that because of the cases where someone who are totally innocent gets their life ruined because of idiots who do not have all the facts (as they weren't in the courtroom) and refuse to believe in their innocence.
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Originally Posted by jasonturbo
I would suggest that a reasonable person cannot gauge the speed of an oncoming vehicle nearly as accurately as they can gauge the distance of the oncoming vehicle.
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Agreed, and especially not in the amount of time you can spend during a scan of an intersection. To gauge the speed you'd likely have to be looking one way so long that what you observed the other way is no longer valid. You either have to be relying mostly on distance or you'd never end up going anywhere.
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Originally Posted by jasonturbo
If Dr. Hui gauged the speed and distance of the Aveo (The vehicle nearest to the intersection at that time) at the 10 seconds mark of the video and initiated his turn, he may have, under normal circumstances, cleared the intersection before the approaching vehicles arrived. The Aveo arrived at the intersection at 14 seconds, suggesting the maximum time period Dr. Hui had to initiate his turn and clear the intersection was 3-4 seconds... which seems to be enough.
Perhaps this doesn't get the point across, but I would suggest that we can assume Dr. Hui's car and the Aveo were being driven by reasonable people and we can use that as a means of determining whether or not the accident would have occurred if not for the excessive speeding of Mr. Chung.
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I would also think that the presence of the Aveo traveling at a normal speed decreased the odds of him even noticing the Audi, let alone the speed it was going. Again it comes down to time, when you scan an intersection you're going to notice the closest vehicles and make a judgment based on that, you can't look at every vehicle within the next 3 blocks. Especially if they may have been blocked from sight and only covered the "clear" area the other driver may have seen so quickly because of their speed.
edit: I just watched the video, I had thought it happened at night with hardly anyone around. Driving like that in the middle of the day is just insanity.