• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When I was in the military (a very long time ago) we would do convoy training (on civilian streets and highways). We were trained to basically ignore any follow distance rules. If you were driving, you had to be right on top of the person ahead of you.

    We also were constantly listening to the radio, and the directions given out by the lead vehicle. If the lead slowed, they announced it on radio, and we all slowed.

    The point here is, many of these government drivers went through the same training, and operate in the same convoy mindset. The main difference is that I drove a 5-ton, and they’re in armored civilian cars.

    As a tangent, the funniest story I have is watching a guy several trucks ahead of me miss the exit off of the highway we were on. The rest of the convoy pulled over on the side of the service road and watched this idiot do a 5 point U-turn in the middle of a 4 lane Korean highway, so that he could drive the wrong way down the highway, to then make a wide turn onto the exit that he missed.

    He had been the 5th truck in the convoy. So we waited for him to pull up, get into position, and then the alternate driver for that truck took over.

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      1 year ago

      I understand the point you’re making about convoy driving. However, regardless of whether the drivers were distracted, there were road condition issues (weather, construction, etc), or they weren’t properly following motorcade procedures, four cars in the motorcade hit each other. It doesn’t matter what the actual underlying issue was, they were driving too fast for (distracted / weather-or-construction / motorcade communications) conditions.