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When two vehicles meet on a steep road where neither can pass, what can you do?

I was in this position before... and I was so scare.
 
FreedummyRing said:
When two vehicles meet on a steep road where neither can pass, what can you do?

I was in this position before... and I was so scare.
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One of you has to back up.
 
no, the vehicle facing downhill \ must back up until the vehicle going uphill /
can pass.

The driver going downhill has the greater amount of control when backing.
 
If that road is too dangerous to drive on then find a backcountry road in the woods where it is much safer. You may need to go off the beaten track for a while until you get back on a real road another than that then on that mountain road, you have to go either left or right in the opposite direction of where the truck or car is going and you may have not have very much room to move but it will be enough to go over the white line on the road but not if you are driving alongside a cliff, That would be suicide. You want to go into the curve even if you have to crash. It is alots better than rolling off the cliff in your truck or car which is no fun and you will not have that much control over a rolling truck / car off a mountainside cliff.
 
yeah, when I was at Arizona, I was on a Grand Canyon-like mountain, an 18 wheeler truck made me back up, and I was facing uphill...

It seems the 18 wheeler truck driver couldn't back up... so I had to back up... so when I back up... I was scare that my car might roll off the mountain. I went 5 mph... and finally there were grass on the side of the road, and I parked there, and let the truck go by... Whew!!!

I was lost, I was in the middle of Arizona, didn't know where I was going... I thought I was taking a short cut.
 
FreedummyRing said:
no, the vehicle facing downhill \ must back up until the vehicle going uphill /
can pass.

The driver going downhill has the greater amount of control when backing.
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Why do you say "no"? That's what I posted, that one of you has to back up. :confused:
 
FreedummyRing said:
yeah, when I was at Arizona, I was on a Grand Canyon-like mountain, an 18 wheeler truck made me back up, and I was facing uphill...

It seems the 18 wheeler truck driver couldn't back up... so I had to back up... so when I back up... I was scare that my car might roll off the mountain. I went 5 mph... and finally there were grass on the side of the road, and I parked there, and let the truck go by... Whew!!!

I was lost, I was in the middle of Arizona, didn't know where I was going... I thought I was taking a short cut.
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I thought you didn't have a driver's license yet?
 
Reba said:
I thought you didn't have a driver's license yet?
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I said I was learning how to drive, I didn't say I didn't have my license.

Is it okay to learn again?
 
I didn't have to take the driver;s license test in my state, they only did driving test and eye exam.

I failed the eye exam the first time but passed the 2nd time.

So really I don't know much of these traffic laws.

The reason why they didn't give me the driver book exam, is because
i took driver's education at my high school...
we had an interpreter, and she kept giving me and my other deaf classmates answers, so we cheated.

So anyway, I was in 4 car wreck within 15 years.

And one of my deaf friends' wife and unborn baby died in terrible car wreck, few years ago...
 
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