Video: "Good Thai driving" makes up for bad motorcycle riding

[webfact]

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Netizens were praising the driving ability of a pick-up driver after a motorcyclist came out of a gas station into their path.

 

A TikTok video under the name spn_._._ showed a middle aged lady on a motorcycle come out into the right lane.

 

 

Though she looks she is going far too slowly to pull off this move.

 

This causes the pick-up to brake and veer sharply narrowly avoiding another person on a motorcycle.

 

 

This was all caught on rear view cam footage with netizens convinced the good Thai driving averted disaster even if poor Thai driving started it in the first place, reported Daily News. 

 

Some 80% of all deaths on Thai roads involve motorcyclists.

 

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[George Bowman]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

with netizens convinced the good Thai driving averted disaster

It's hard to keep up with today's ever changing world. It looks like I need to drag out the dictionary and look up the word 'good'.

[2baht]

If they don't get it by now, they never will!

[edwinchester]

Motorcyclist is a retard and the pickup driver seems to have the reaction time of a sloth.

[Orinoco]

Nothing good about that.

just luck.

Ps wonder what the motor cyclist in the green top thought about it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing Thailand.

 

 

[degrub]

Poor skill on both of them.

[PJ71]

the woman never even batted an eyelid

 

This is a very common manoeuvre pulling straight out into the fast lane, whether is be for a U turn or a junction km's further up the road, complete madness.

[PJ71]

20 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

Ps wonder what the motor cyclist in the green top thought about it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd be surprised if he even noticed - lol.

[KhunBENQ]

50 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

pickup driver seems to have the reaction time of a sloth.

Absolute sleeper.

And there is no good driving but just an emergency breaking resulting in loss of control.

Nothing but luck that the other motorcycle rider was not thrown off.

From between 10 and 11 sec into the video it was clear that the motorcycle rider would not stick to the left lane but cross.

About 3 sec(!) later the pickup nearly hit the motorcycle.

 

Amazing silence: I know it's "forbidden" to honk but here it would have been absolutely necessary!!!

 

[KhunBENQ]

About 11 sec into the video:

 

About 14(!) sec into the video:

 

If that is good driving, heaven help!!!

[Iamfalang]

This is LOS.  I expect this from every ................ single...................driver I see.  It's sad, but I've seen 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 acts of complete 100% full ret.....d   when I tell them to never go full   r.....d.   

[Dmaxdan]

Dreadful driving all round.

I bet you anything you like  the pickup driver's first response was to blast her horn rather than brake and try and avoid a collision herself.

 

[Orinoco]

And the Thais on social media think this was good driving 

Just shows you all what most are truly thinking when they drive or ride on the roads in Thailand.

Just dumb all round  in that clip.

The only thing missing,  is a bike going up the carriageway the wrong way, 

3 up,  one holding a baby in there arms and no crash helmets on, but all have a mask on, to complete the picture.

TIT. 

 

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

4 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

Dreadful driving all round.

I bet you anything you like  the pickup driver's first response was to blast her horn rather than brake and try and avoid a collision herself.

 

The video has sound and I am afraid he did nothing, neither honk (which he should have done!) nor break at first.

I bet he realized that the bike would come over.

And then? Being surprised that the bike slowed down?

There is a U-turn! All U-turns are clearly announced with a sign.

Complete sleepy and careless fool and not "good driving".

[JonnyF]

Looked like a poor reaction time followed by a completely out of control emergency stop that was lucky not to take out the other motorcycle.

 

If that qualifies as good driving then I'm not sure I want to be around for the bad.

[Xonax]

Not good driving, but pure luck. The pick-up should have reduced the speed already, when the motorcycle came near the middle of the road.

[AhFarangJa]

If that is good driving then I need to go and re-educate myself on how to operate a vehicle.

[Jai Dee]

A derogatory post generalizing ALL Thais has been removed... as per Forum Rules.

 

From the Forum Rules:

 

14. You will not post slurs, degrading or overly negative comments directed towards Thailand, Thai people, Thai culture, Thai institutions such as the military, judicial or law enforcement system or specific locations within Thailand

[Moti24]

Apart from the usual Thai motorcyclist, the pickup driver must have been on the phone or half asleep.

 

I can't believe this is even news!

[richard_smith237]

4 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

About 11 sec into the video:

 

About 14(!) sec into the video:

 

If that is good driving, heaven help!!!

Agreed....  How is that possibly good driving ?????.....  the pickup truck had a life time to react and brake only to spin out....   utterly ridiculous that this could be consider ‘good driving’ in the looses sense of the word.... 

 

.... and the motorcyclist....  this is exactly why we all need dash-cams... 

 

How can someone pull out in the outside lane of a main road like that and so clearly and obviously put their own life in such grave danger absolutely astonishes me.

[Screaming]

This is the reason that so many Thai motorbike drivers get killed on the roads. It's the complete carelessness and stupidity of the riders assuming that they have the right of way because no laws are enforced to make them comply with sane driving. It's a total free for all for motorbike drivers in Thailand and a reason I will never get on a bike again here in Thailand.

[Screaming]

22 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Agreed....  How is that possibly good driving ?????.....  the pickup truck had a life time to react and brake only to spin out....   utterly ridiculous that this could be consider ‘good driving’ in the looses sense of the word.... 

 

.... and the motorcyclist....  this is exactly why we all need dash-cams... 

 

How can someone pull out in the outside lane of a main road like that and so clearly and obviously put their own life in such grave danger absolutely astonishes me.

So true and the reason I installed both a front and back dash cam on my vehicle in Thailand.

[kevc]

When I taught my wife to drive in the UK I told her treat everyone as an idiot, over here it makes perfect sense to. Pick up driver wasn't a good driver he should have been looking for that to happen instead of reacting at the last minute.

[Wavel]

Where does being unable to react quickly when something adverse happens on the road, then braking & lose complete of your own vehicle causing it to spin constitute good driving. The mind boggles. Of course TIT

[PoorSucker]

 

 

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Motorcyclist is a retard and the pickup driver seems to have the reaction time of a sloth.

Yep, lady rider has a death wish and the driver has reactions of a retard.

[phetphet]

Looks to me as if he nearly wiped out the rider in the green jacket. More luck than good driving.

[Orinoco]

6 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

 

 

That sums them up  on  the roads very well.