... or they drive with these trucks on the road every day and realise that the fully loaded truck on the right is going to be slow AF from a standing start, while the one on the left will be much less slow because it's only loaded with it's own trailer. After 50m or so you'll be able to switch to the right lane and escape both trucks.
You can literally see the turn arrow on the traffic light and the guide lines in the intersection. Those cars are stacked up in the leftmost turn lane.
Here's a slightly less cooked rendition obtained by a simple reverse image search:
The leftmost lane is clearly a left turn only lane. The lane the log truck is in most likely is a left/straight lane, or it's double left turn lanes. Nobody in that leftmost lane is going straight around that log truck unless they want to get turned into a pancake.
Funnily enough, the scene in the movie is impossible to recreate, as the truck uses a flatbed and chains to tie the logs together. However logging trucks have the metal railings on the side for a reason: if they don't exist, the logs would simply role over anytime you try to stack them, making it much more of a hassle than to just use a dedicated bed for logging.
Even if the sides would fail, the logs would simply roll off to the side and not bounce back due to inertia and friction causing the logs to only move sideways at the speed of the truck rather than backwards.
And then there's also the fact that no one is braking at all, they all went full speed and steer their car. If everyone just brake, there would at most have a few casualties instead of boatfull of people crossing the River Styx
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Ever driven behind one of those? Even without seeing "that scene", you get a windshield full of crap falling out of the load. It's not fun.
...Everyone in the left lane is turning left.
... or they drive with these trucks on the road every day and realise that the fully loaded truck on the right is going to be slow AF from a standing start, while the one on the left will be much less slow because it's only loaded with it's own trailer. After 50m or so you'll be able to switch to the right lane and escape both trucks.
You can literally see the turn arrow on the traffic light and the guide lines in the intersection. Those cars are stacked up in the leftmost turn lane.
Here's a slightly less cooked rendition obtained by a simple reverse image search:
The leftmost lane is clearly a left turn only lane. The lane the log truck is in most likely is a left/straight lane, or it's double left turn lanes. Nobody in that leftmost lane is going straight around that log truck unless they want to get turned into a pancake.
Sure but none of that explains why cars are in the left most lane, because both lanes can turn left.
The obvious explanation remains - no one wants to be stuck behind a fully laden truck at traffic lights.
After the turn, cars in the left lane will be able to move in to the right lane.
This seems really obvious to me. Does no one else drive?
I guess technically both could be true.
Why do you think they're turning left?
Being in a left turn only lane with left turn green arrow on the traffic signal above it is a rather strong clue.
oh so now we're playing blue's clues
No, I mean what is the REASON they're turning left?
Big if true
There's not a pothole in the world that could make those logs fall off the back. They would fall to the sides if the bars somehow snapped off
and the truck would have to be speeding in reverse towards you to make the logs fly backwards
Hell, just seeing the trailer for the movie was enough to get me to avoid driving behind a log truck…
Funnily enough, the scene in the movie is impossible to recreate, as the truck uses a flatbed and chains to tie the logs together. However logging trucks have the metal railings on the side for a reason: if they don't exist, the logs would simply role over anytime you try to stack them, making it much more of a hassle than to just use a dedicated bed for logging.
Even if the sides would fail, the logs would simply roll off to the side and not bounce back due to inertia and friction causing the logs to only move sideways at the speed of the truck rather than backwards.
And then there's also the fact that no one is braking at all, they all went full speed and steer their car. If everyone just brake, there would at most have a few casualties instead of boatfull of people crossing the River Styx
Ha ha ha ! have you ever seen a load of logs come loose?