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@@TheGodExperiments Knowing Sam's sense of humor, I wouldn't be surprised if he went out of his way to find as much footage of left turns as he could, just for the joke of it. (On a more serious note, I wonder if there's more stock footage of left turns because you have more choices of camera angle and distance from inside the turn that way. Shooting from the left side of the truck also has the benefit of having the driver more visible. I'm overthinking this now...)
My dad is a UPS driver, and while this is theoretically true according to their routing software, a good driver will know how to work their route more quickly than the system thinks he can, and will often do that by ignoring the turn-by-turn navigation and making left turns when they "aren't supposed to" because they've worked their route enough to know how to get between areas most efficiently, and how to work any specific group of streets quickly as well.
You are very right. As an employee, I can tell you for certain, the left turn rule is a relic of the past. While UPS tries not to turn left as a whole, it will not go 2 miles extra to prevent turning left. Combined with your comment and left turns are much more frequent than UPS P.R. would have you believe. In the several years I've worked there, I have never once been told to avoid left turns, but I am preached to keep miles travelled down. However that may be.
Christopher Bassett yup! The divers KNOW their routes probably BETTER than the back of their hand. Heck! Some of them even KNOW they will be going to the SAME HOUSE almost everyday 5 days a week. Even the latest and greatest navigation WITH “real time” traffic is worthless when experienced drivers know alternate routes that incorporate drops on the way.
Based on my personal experience you're not wrong. In the area where I live UPS drivers have total discretion whether they want to make left turns or right turns, the order the packages are delivered in is based on what the driver thinks is best rather than some kind of algorithm or company policy.
lol so true. By "Never turn left", I expect HAI means "not cutting across traffic". That left hander was moving into a one-way street. No traffic to cut across.
Ok... this was tenth as interesting... I think the title was self explanatory. I never thought about it but once he’s mentioned it, we could guess why they do it and how smart it is (and you even forgot to mention that unlike here in the U.K. in America you can turn right most of the time even when it’s red. Strange that I have to tell this to an American... that’s the MAJOR reason that they do that). P.s Another reason is that they know that they’re driving on the wrong side of the road
Was expecting more of that as well, but it's probably something boring like a route finder programmed to heavily favour right turns. Maybe some tweaking of districts thrown in.
@@staomruel If we think whatever map as a square grid, by doing one left turn first we should be able to get to any points on any route with only right turns regardless of our entry point to the grid, no? That's my guess.
Well, the route they take is still an optimization problem, not turning left is just another thing to account for. Generally speaking, you have two ways of doing this: adding a restriction or minimizing left turns, along with distance. The first way, the program will search for routes without left turns. If it doesn't find any, it will try for routes with one left turn and so on... Depending on other restrictions, this could result in a 100 miles route without left turns being chosen, rather than a 1 mile route with 1 left turn. I'm sure they're wiser than that. The second way, you penalize any left turns found in a route. It could be something like, each left turn is worth 1 mile in the optimization result. I can't tell you exactly how they do it, because I don't know and they probably don't tell anyone. A great "traveling salesman" algorithm costs a lot of money.
@@MirzaAhmed89 i am fully aware, but when only 3 races of a 36 race schedule are on road courses, there is still a predominance of left turns going on.
Having known this fun fact many years ago, I actually used it to my advantage once. I was waiting for a new gaming laptop delivery and knew it was arriving on that day. But, I was in an upstairs bedroom and the ups guy knocked and didn't ring the door bell. So when I saw the notice on the door, I was infuriated. But instead of waiting, I figured I'd use the no left turn rule to guess where the truck might be next, and fortunately I lived where there were a lot of apartments so no more than a 5 minute drive later at a different complex, I found the driver and managed to claim my package. Still have that laptop with me today, 7 years later.
@@_-_--_ Well that's reasuring. No need to dump a parcel understand drivers are under time pressure. I'm convinced that if you have anything fragile to post *don't* put fragile on the package ! lol.!
The Pro Tester, as Michael Andretti said to his son, Marco, in the Target commercials long ago when the elder was supposedly teaching the younger to drive and Marco asked to turn right for a change, “Why would you want to do that?”
I learned this from the UPS guys when I worked as a receiver. I thought about it and it made sense. Since then I've adopted it for my personal driving and find that driving is less stressful.
Agreed. I hate making "unprotected" left turns because you need a break in traffic from both directions. I will often turn right and then find a place to turn around. For example, I'll turn right, then find a place where I can turn left into a parking lot, therefore I only have to wait for a break in oncoming traffic (one direction instead of two). Or I'll go right, and then find somewhere to go in and come back out to a stoplight, which will give me the break in traffic that I need to be able to make a safer left turn (safer than trying to watch 2 opposite directions of traffic for an opening).
If I need to pull off of the highway and turn left, I'll often go to the next exit and turn right. It makes it less stressful, and there's less traffic in my way. Two wins, and I don't even care which is faster because I enjoyed getting there.
bipolar Kermit the third It was more of a fun fact I heard from Vsauce So “ambidextrous” doesn’t mean “good with both hands” it means you have “two right hands” And if you don’t have a dominant hand, it’s called “ambisinister” meaning “two left hands” even if neither is dominant
And if you are adroit you are right handed but those gauche people are left handed. And I was surprised to hear that a tailor may ask if a man dresses right or left so a little extra room will be provided in one of the legs.
It's called entertainment If you really don't believe you have time to watch this kind of videos well, you can not waste time watching them or copy and pasting the title and reading the answer for the same effect
Petition to make HAI only show left hand turning Corollas made for driving on the left only with left handed drivers in all future videos with the reference to Corollas.
That's what the video says, they avoid it when it's a two way road and there's just one block around. When it's just turning on a corner without two way traffic, there's no problem. You even get the example shown twice on the video: an UPS truck turning left on a one way street..
@@Ktulu789 The title of the video is Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left. That is false, they do turn left. quite a bit. My truck turns left all the time, when I turn it left. The computer system was designed to not turn left, but the trucks are not driven by the computer. You're wrong mate, it's ok though, you don't work for UPS you wouldn't know.
@@Dyrdeksk8r well i know they turn left, but what hes trying to say is that the title of this video is speaking about the computer most likely, not a small percentage of tikes a driver has to turn left.
@@pierreabbat6157 In the present context I'm afraid I don't know what 'Um, what' would mean: All I was trying to clarify was, had you previously heard of Rick and Morty, and the 'Hunh' in your original comment was intended to convey your reaction to the idea of 'Brick and Mortar body pillows,' or have you not previously heard of Rick and Morty, and the 'Hunh' in your original comment was intended to convey 'What the heck is Rick and Morty'? And then I asked that question, because if you've never heard of Rick and Morty, I predict that you'd enjoy the show. That all seemed pretty clear to me, sorry, and I'm ready to move on. Google Rick and Morty if you haven't heard of them. Episodes are available on Adult Swim. Have a good day.
UPS Headquarters: Don't stop and talk to customers. My delivery guy: stops and plays soccer with me for 10 minutes. Edit: Soccer/football If I had said football then people would have thought I meant American Football so I put soccer just to clear things up (I am American)
@@smraddebeli No, it's not. Football isn't a sport, it's a collective name for a large number of kick and run sports that include American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic rules football, both codes of rugby, and other historic sports like cuju in China. Association football (soccer for short) is just one football code. Calling it just football is about as accurate as calling a spoon "utensil", when that term also includes knives, forks, etc.
The UPS driver that does our pick-up every day has an interesting route to our store. We're on a fairly busy thoroughfare a block or two off a major highway in Houston, and Houston traffic is amongst the worst. Our road has 3 lanes each way and a 40mph speed limit (most do 50-55mph, even in heavy traffic). We sit on the corner of a minor cross street and there's a suicide lane in each direction. As a result of his route, our driver makes three rights to be able to cross traffic with a stop light instead of braving the traffic of 6 lanes of traffic. Every day, both the Orion system in his truck yells at him for not making likely the only left hand turn he's scheduled for, but then his supervisor gets to remind him at the hub when he turns in his truck at the end of the night. It's hilarious.
Tiger King memes were never funny to begin with and have been dead for months. If you're going to steal comments, at least steal good ones that actually add something
lol do yall really just search comment sections on youtube and cross reference similar comments and see which ones were posted the latest then just trash on them. lol
3:54 reminds me of my rottweiler. She was used to our local driver but one day while I was at a park a different driver stopped and she snuck into a random UPS driver's truck when he wasnt looking, scared the shit out of him when he got back into his truck, and then refused to leave until she got her treat.
Yeah, it's funny... but that's actually a one-way street, meaning the driver doesn't have to cut across traffic, so that particular left-turn is basically same as a right-turn.
@@-Name-here- It's called a 1 way road, not too uncommon in big cities. He was on the left because every lane on the road is going the same direction and he needed to turn left. He even turns onto a 1 way road as well. Pause the video and look at the signs, if the video was flipped the signs like the "TRUCK ROUTE" ones would be flipped as well.
The system that UPS uses to determine the route of the trucks is called ORION. Most drivers hate it with a passion. It actually costs the company more in undelivered packages than it saves. But the company executives love the system because they don't drive the trucks or live in the real word.
Mythbusters had an episode dealing with exactly this. Their results were inconclusive because their test was getting from A to B and sometimes turning right will make you go in circles, but if you can freely rearrange your waypoints like UPS deliverymen then things might be very different.
UPS driver: wait, the next destination is just a left turn from here Also the same driver: but I can't turn left unless ABSOLUTELY necessary Also the same driver: so let's drive forward for another block, turn right 3 times and get to the destination. Nice plan
It is BEYOND stupid. I have literally seen the truck with my package leave my complex and go MILES away, only to come back at the end of the day, just to avoid making a left turn. Literal miles wasted. The algorithm will put all necessary left turns at the very bottom of the delivery list, as well. So if a left turn is required to get to your location, you will never receive a package before late afternoon.
This explains why I work one block to the left of the ups distribution center and yet my packages are always the last ones to be dropped off!! They could literally walk over and drop off the package and save more money and gas!
@@TheLiamster I would think right turns in Britain would be the more traffic-intensive turns to make. If UPS strategically avoids left turns in drivers' routes in the US, I would think the counterpart would be to avoid right turns in Britain.
More importantly we're missing the part where they ninja up to your home, whisper *your package is here* & speeds off like his girlfriend's parents aren't home.
It’s like always following the right (or left) wall of a maze. It will take long, but you’ll visit every place until you get back to the entrance. In the case of a postal service, this is useful, as it provides a simple and efficient way to visit a lot of places quickly.
“Why UPS trucks never turn left”. This guy takes 6 minutes to answer a simple question. Just say the answer man. What’s all this rubbish talk. All this extra rubbish just to make the video longer. Not even joking. It’s all useless info. He actually answers the question and says why they don’t turn left in 39 seconds. Just skip to the times 4:25 and stop at 5:04
I am more impressed that he talked for that long about something he was completely wrong about. We turn left all the time. We aren't even taught to minimize left turns.
You would think so but I used to work for an Australian company as a delivery driver and they employed the UPS software to optimize routes, so they feed all our customers into the system, re-routed the lot and sent us on our way, low and behold we all of a sudden were swamped with right hand turns which caused no end of grief. As drivers we had been doing our routes for a long time and knew the best way but were told to follow the new routes. This lasted for about 2 weeks until they were sick of the complaints and we refused to do it the new way.
This is a really underhanded/backhanded compliment or whatever it's called, but this channel makes really good bedtime content. It's like all those channels that make list videos or stuff about other tidbits of mostly useless information, but the difference is Half as Interesting is actually just very funny on top of it. Thank you for making delaying my sleep by 2 hours every night not so morally straining, by not having to choose to support garbage content.
In the US, this really works out. Especially in cities. In general, traffic lights at crossroads are not really well implemented in the US. Two opposing directions get a green light at the same time, so you have to wait to turn left. This can take ages, so UPS is right on this. It is interesing to find out whether UPS also implements this rule In Europe, where they also operate. Crossroads in Europe (at least western Europe) in general have dedicated lanes for a left turn, with a dedicated traffic light. That traffic light should be set such that the car doesn't have to wait as long as turning left at an "equal" crossroads like the ones in the US.
Uuuuhhhhh... there's a lot of issues in the US but how traffic lights are implemented is definitely not one of them. Idk about you but where I am A LOT of intersections with a traffic light have a dedicated lane to turn left. Also how they do the traffic light thing is rlly on a case by case basis. Some traffic lights have (let's just use the cardinal directions as an example of what it would look like from a top down view, and also I'm going to refer to a "stage" as which cars go each time the traffic light changes) Stage 1. South going straight North and North going straight South Stage 2. South turning West and North turning East Stage 3. West going straight East and East going straight West Stage 4. East turning South and West turning North. And then the ppl turning right can turn whenever. Other traffic lights do stage 1. South going North and West Stage 2. North going South and East Stage 3. East going West and South Stage 4. West going East and North. (Not necessarily in that order) Idk what the issue with that is
4:30 In this scenario I don't think turning right would have avoided the accident. I would try not plowing through the car already stopped at the intersection.
I studied the travelling salesman problem as a student. Yes there are masses of potential routes for delivering about 120 parcels. But the vast majority of route combinations are obviously not optimal and can be eliminated immediately. So the problem can be simplified. For example divide the drivers delivery area into smaller geographical zones, say of 20-30 deliveries. Optimising the delivery route within a zone should be easy for today’s computers. Then all you need to do is sequence the zones, using the same or similar method. Solution should be close enough to optimal to make no practical difference.
2:45 Yet, UPS never calls or lets you know a package is coming, and all the drivers end up doing useless trips because I didn't know they were trying to get in only to meet a locked apartment building door. *shrugs* I sure wish they'd think more about time savings.
Joonas Mäkinen ups drivers don't have time to call every single customer. Imagine if you have 180 deliveries, would you call every time? No, it consumes time. You can track your package online for an estimated time of delivery. As for apartments, customer needs to provide an access code
@@nicoriss22 Busyness depends where you live. DHL can do it (calling) just fine, and one can inform them about new arrangements before a potential futile attempt - can't with UPS. And regardless how UPS would need an access code provided by customer, their customer is the webstore you're buying from, and rarely do they acknowledge this need and relay the information to UPS.
@@JoonasD6 that’s why DHL is a dying company, most deliveries can be released safely without the customer being home therefore more deliveries completed more money made, they don’t have time to call and wait...
@@haydenpalmer9656 Where I live I have to tick a box when I get the tracking number that I am allowing package delivery without me being present. So I guess, you could call those out just automatically send a message that your parcel is arriving in this time period (3 hour window). And also you have no option to reschedule a first time delivery if you see that you won't be able to receive it that day. You can automate some steps and save time with it, and properly notifying the receiver is one of those things.
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Give us another video about bricks. 1 brick video is not enough.
hi
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I want the chairs that are red video. Wanna see what you can say that will surprise us.
A video how pi was almost changed to 3.2!
Hi commenter
Me here super early
A random UPS truck somewhere in the country : "In 2 miles, turn left"
UPS HQ 400 miles away : _softly_ *_don't_*
UPS Sniper on a roof 2 blocks away: “Don’t even think about it, bud”
UPS Driver: "I'll fucking do it anyway!"
The truck is then followed by another UPS truck, but this one has police sirens.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
Need for Speed Hot Pursuite: Delivery Edition
Title:
Why UPS trucks almost never turn left
Video:
Shows nearly all UPS trucks turning exclusively left
Onto one way streets though!
Still, interesting that they couldn't find stock footage of them turning right if that is what they do almost all the time.
@@TheGodExperiments Knowing Sam's sense of humor, I wouldn't be surprised if he went out of his way to find as much footage of left turns as he could, just for the joke of it.
(On a more serious note, I wonder if there's more stock footage of left turns because you have more choices of camera angle and distance from inside the turn that way. Shooting from the left side of the truck also has the benefit of having the driver more visible. I'm overthinking this now...)
There were 2 pieces of stock footage showing UPS trucks turning. One went left, one went right
6 minute long video, talks about why UPS almost never turns left for 1 and half minutes. ;)
My dad is a UPS driver, and while this is theoretically true according to their routing software, a good driver will know how to work their route more quickly than the system thinks he can, and will often do that by ignoring the turn-by-turn navigation and making left turns when they "aren't supposed to" because they've worked their route enough to know how to get between areas most efficiently, and how to work any specific group of streets quickly as well.
You are very right. As an employee, I can tell you for certain, the left turn rule is a relic of the past. While UPS tries not to turn left as a whole, it will not go 2 miles extra to prevent turning left. Combined with your comment and left turns are much more frequent than UPS P.R. would have you believe. In the several years I've worked there, I have never once been told to avoid left turns, but I am preached to keep miles travelled down. However that may be.
Ya I feel left nowadays the new software drives you in left handed circles all day.
Christopher Bassett yup! The divers KNOW their routes probably BETTER than the back of their hand. Heck! Some of them even KNOW they will be going to the SAME HOUSE almost everyday 5 days a week. Even the latest and greatest navigation WITH “real time” traffic is worthless when experienced drivers know alternate routes that incorporate drops on the way.
It's like the pirates code it's more like a guide line.
True for almost every delivery driver nowadays!!
How UPS saves time
In theory: Never turn left,
In practice: "Sorry we have missed you"
Your home was after left turn then
The post office loves that one too!
Based on my personal experience you're not wrong. In the area where I live UPS drivers have total discretion whether they want to make left turns or right turns, the order the packages are delivered in is based on what the driver thinks is best rather than some kind of algorithm or company policy.
“sexy singles in my area always swipe left when they see my tinder profile” 💀💀
That gotta hurt
Have you tried Grinder?
🤣 I'm sorry for asking that question! 🤣
When?
“And yes, never turning left” *shows footage of UPS truck turning left*
4:11
Turning left onto a one way street though, which is significantly faster.
lol so true. By "Never turn left", I expect HAI means "not cutting across traffic". That left hander was moving into a one-way street. No traffic to cut across.
Benji 4:08*
Pretty sure that's a one way road
gps: turn left
ups driver: *heavy breathing*
Lol
Ew why do people love poop these days XD I read poop by your name
One dude said to me its tasty
lol
LOL
I’m pretty sure UPS doesn’t use GPS. I’m a FedEx courier and we don’t use them either.
i used this tactic as a delivery driver. Never stop at red lights, always turn right. I ended up setting a company record 36 deliveries in 12hours.
You serious about red lights?
@@sandro5535 you always can turn right even at red light
@@sandro5535 100% it is legal where i live to turn right at a red light.
@@sandro5535 except Montreal, in that one city for some reason turning right on a red is bad??? LOL
@@АдольфРозенберг At least in Germany it's normally prohibited to turn right on red lights
UPS Driver: Makes a left turn
UPS: *This little maneuver is going to cost us 14.5 million dollars!*
UPS Driver: its necessary
*Interstellar music intensifies
*plays "No Time for Left" music*
We have free left turns here.
@ICAUSEDTHIS YT If I make two lefts aren't I technically making a right?🤓
UPS in UK when turning right:
This little maneuver is going to cost us the truck
Ups driver: *makes a left turn
Ups ceo: I'm never gonna financially recover from this....
Lmaoo
Meanwhile in indonesia and uk : why UPS trucks almost never turn right
@@dlrpanjsi783 pretty sure they don't, since I have seen multiple of those and never set foot onto one of the American continents.
@@dlrpanjsi783 no we have ups vans in the uk, we just don’t call them trucks hahaha
@@dlrpanjsi783 Western Europe
India as well
Ok... this was tenth as interesting... I think the title was self explanatory. I never thought about it but once he’s mentioned it, we could guess why they do it and how smart it is (and you even forgot to mention that unlike here in the U.K. in America you can turn right most of the time even when it’s red. Strange that I have to tell this to an American... that’s the MAJOR reason that they do that).
P.s
Another reason is that they know that they’re driving on the wrong side of the road
Oh God I'll never be able to stop watching for this when I'm driving now am I?
Keep ur eyes on the road.
@@KiomonDuck Thanks for that incredibly insightful suggestion.
@@jdatlas4668 thank you for the nice reply👍
I'm sitting in my chair and watching
Luckily I am not allowed to drive because I too young
cool but why do they always miss my house like seriously
Maybe it’s because they’re on the farthest side of the intersecting road near your house
Perhaps they can’t turn left to get there.
they just *left* your home alone
@Anant Tiwari you okay?
That stroke looked pretty bad...
@@zill_laiss *Applauds*
This solved a problem I never had
I like how he manages to insert memes and other comedic inputs in an educational video like this.
You really are everywhere.
How has this comment only gotten 10 likes? Usually just some guy without a mustache’s comments get around at least 1k
This isnt really educational
notyourpetmonkey It’s been only an hour
Hello, again
This video really needed to talk about _how_ they avoid turning left though.
Was expecting more of that as well, but it's probably something boring like a route finder programmed to heavily favour right turns.
Maybe some tweaking of districts thrown in.
@@staomruel
If we think whatever map as a square grid, by doing one left turn first we should be able to get to any points on any route with only right turns regardless of our entry point to the grid, no? That's my guess.
Well, the route they take is still an optimization problem, not turning left is just another thing to account for. Generally speaking, you have two ways of doing this: adding a restriction or minimizing left turns, along with distance.
The first way, the program will search for routes without left turns. If it doesn't find any, it will try for routes with one left turn and so on... Depending on other restrictions, this could result in a 100 miles route without left turns being chosen, rather than a 1 mile route with 1 left turn. I'm sure they're wiser than that.
The second way, you penalize any left turns found in a route. It could be something like, each left turn is worth 1 mile in the optimization result.
I can't tell you exactly how they do it, because I don't know and they probably don't tell anyone. A great "traveling salesman" algorithm costs a lot of money.
@@Artaxo those are the kind of variables one would expect to be thrown in, interesting to think about, boring nonetheless.
Now I'm wondering if UPS has been a driving force in the emergence of roundabouts worldwide....
"UPS Truck never turn left"
Country who drives on the left: Am I a joke to you?!
@come on man! uk is wicked. Driving on the right is the only way to drice
@@KamikazeMedias nobody is correct. Everybody's supposed to drive like ants😂😂😂
@@2mdjr532 right side is the only side!!!
@@KamikazeMedias you go your road mate
Umm, who’s gonna tell him many countries drive on the left, and USA doesn’t set the norm, I’m American and I know that.
Because being right is way harder to be
Because being left is easy
You don’t need the “to be”. Just, “because being right is way harder”.
You’re welcome
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 unless ur in construction then u have to be careful with the tools since they're made for right handed people
Oh hello
i see you everywhere lol
"What good thing has ever been associated with leftness?"
NASCAR drivers: *sweating*
There are road courses in NASCAR.
@@MirzaAhmed89 i am fully aware, but when only 3 races of a 36 race schedule are on road courses, there is still a predominance of left turns going on.
You know the earth is coming to an end when NASCAR decides to turn to the right
@@MirzaAhmed89 and there have been many drivers in NASCAR who could barely finish them.
Chase Elliott: *Laughs in Road Course Master*
next: why planes almost never go counter clockwise
Next: why people never swipe right on you
next: why you should consider disowning your children
@Wacky Venky next: why you should never see children
Next: why planes almost never fly backwards
Next: Why there are more airplanes in the sea, than submarines in air.
"Or you are stuck in a normal bed because waking up is hard" That Hit hard
Finally someone understands
And I'm the opposite, my life never takes a right turn.
We can all relate to that.
_das_phantom_ Whoa, you’re so clever! 😂👍
I feel you
Having known this fun fact many years ago, I actually used it to my advantage once. I was waiting for a new gaming laptop delivery and knew it was arriving on that day. But, I was in an upstairs bedroom and the ups guy knocked and didn't ring the door bell. So when I saw the notice on the door, I was infuriated. But instead of waiting, I figured I'd use the no left turn rule to guess where the truck might be next, and fortunately I lived where there were a lot of apartments so no more than a 5 minute drive later at a different complex, I found the driver and managed to claim my package. Still have that laptop with me today, 7 years later.
Nice, may it serve you well for years more!
Because if it doesn't, well... Them bitches expensive
do you still have it now
@@cherryble no
Do you have it now?
@@g2seanThis is not your post
"Slightly less vicious hamster attacks" killed me hahaha
Why should you never question a UPS driver’s routes?
*_Because they’re always right_*
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet UA-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear alex
@@_-_--_
Did you complain and get a replacement?
Shut up
Meanwhile UPS to customers: *The customer is always right*
@@_-_--_ Well that's reasuring.
No need to dump a parcel understand drivers are under time pressure.
I'm convinced that if you have anything fragile to post *don't* put fragile on the package ! lol.!
UPS Trucks, the anti-NASCAR.
*ups gets special permission to have their car do the race in the opposite direction*
/s
NASCAR is garbage
only people fimiliar with nascar get this comment
@Gabriel Rainstein my garbage what
LMAO
It's the opposite in the UK, right turns cause the same problems as left turns do in the US. So UPS drivers almost always turn left instead of right
kool
kool
"Sexy singles in my area always swipe left when they see my profile in Tinder."
*Self-inflicted burn.*
I can relate to that. 😐
Pun intended?
Self burn? Wow, that one's rare
First time here?
@@DankDungeon Nyet.
Guess who hired ex NASCAR racers?
UPS.
Lmao
Wouldn't that be inefficient? Or against UPS philosophy
NASCAR always turns left
@@vasishtvasudevan4059 the ex NASCAR racers wanted to break the barriers, duh
Lol
The Pro Tester, as Michael Andretti said to his son, Marco, in the Target commercials long ago when the elder was supposedly teaching the younger to drive and Marco asked to turn right for a change, “Why would you want to do that?”
@@brookeking8559 to break the chains man. Its hip to nip with the rules to look cools
I learned this from the UPS guys when I worked as a receiver. I thought about it and it made sense. Since then I've adopted it for my personal driving and find that driving is less stressful.
Agreed. I hate making "unprotected" left turns because you need a break in traffic from both directions. I will often turn right and then find a place to turn around. For example, I'll turn right, then find a place where I can turn left into a parking lot, therefore I only have to wait for a break in oncoming traffic (one direction instead of two).
Or I'll go right, and then find somewhere to go in and come back out to a stoplight, which will give me the break in traffic that I need to be able to make a safer left turn (safer than trying to watch 2 opposite directions of traffic for an opening).
If I need to pull off of the highway and turn left, I'll often go to the next exit and turn right. It makes it less stressful, and there's less traffic in my way. Two wins, and I don't even care which is faster because I enjoyed getting there.
In Latin, “Dexter” means right and “Sinister” means left
Humans just really hate that direction
it's all conservative propaganda
fclp67 yep you got it you cracked the code
bipolar Kermit the third It was more of a fun fact I heard from Vsauce
So “ambidextrous” doesn’t mean “good with both hands” it means you have “two right hands”
And if you don’t have a dominant hand, it’s called “ambisinister” meaning “two left hands” even if neither is dominant
And if you are adroit you are right handed but those gauche people are left handed.
And I was surprised to hear that a tailor may ask if a man dresses right or left so a little extra room will be provided in one of the legs.
Because its just not right
“Remember Danny - Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.”
4:22 if you want the answer about the title of the video “why UPS trucks almost never turn left”
How to make 6 minute video with 1 minute of sponsor, 4 minutes of water and 1 minute of answer.
Thanks dude
Thanks
It's called entertainment
If you really don't believe you have time to watch this kind of videos well, you can not waste time watching them or copy and pasting the title and reading the answer for the same effect
"Never turning left"
*shows UPS truck turning left*
@@athirkell bruh
@@athirkell wot
That driver got fired right after that
For the drivers it’s right but for us it’s left
Me, a left hander watching the video: *“O-oh... cool...”*
Petition to make HAI only show left hand turning Corollas made for driving on the left only with left handed drivers in all future videos with the reference to Corollas.
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Lol same
I am left-handed....and went to a Catholic school lol
Me to I'm lefi handed
I’m gonna become friends with people at UPS so whenever they’re upset I can say “Somebody woke up on the left side of the bed”
Just texted my friend that drives for ups and his exact quote "Yeah, we turn left".
That's what the video says, they avoid it when it's a two way road and there's just one block around. When it's just turning on a corner without two way traffic, there's no problem. You even get the example shown twice on the video: an UPS truck turning left on a one way street..
@@Ktulu789 I'm a UPS driver, we turn left. The computer tells us not to, but it's very easy to be faster than the computer.
@@Dyrdeksk8r so, the fact that you don't comply with your work rules don't make this video wrong, JUST CONFIRMS IT. Thanks!
@@Ktulu789 The title of the video is Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left. That is false, they do turn left. quite a bit. My truck turns left all the time, when I turn it left. The computer system was designed to not turn left, but the trucks are not driven by the computer. You're wrong mate, it's ok though, you don't work for UPS you wouldn't know.
@@Dyrdeksk8r well i know they turn left, but what hes trying to say is that the title of this video is speaking about the computer most likely, not a small percentage of tikes a driver has to turn left.
Long answer: this video
short answer: Because left is never the right way
He-
Good one
There’s an unhealthy amount of Rick and Morty body pillow jokes
What more do you want -- I turned myself into a body pillow and nine-eleven was an inside job?
I kept hearing that as "brick and mortar body pillows". Hunh?
@@pierreabbat6157 Oh, *please* tell me you've never heard of Rick and Morty --because, if not, I'm about to make your next six weeks or so.
@@CinemaDemocratica Um, what?
@@pierreabbat6157 In the present context I'm afraid I don't know what 'Um, what' would mean: All I was trying to clarify was, had you previously heard of Rick and Morty, and the 'Hunh' in your original comment was intended to convey your reaction to the idea of 'Brick and Mortar body pillows,' or have you not previously heard of Rick and Morty, and the 'Hunh' in your original comment was intended to convey 'What the heck is Rick and Morty'? And then I asked that question, because if you've never heard of Rick and Morty, I predict that you'd enjoy the show. That all seemed pretty clear to me, sorry, and I'm ready to move on. Google Rick and Morty if you haven't heard of them. Episodes are available on Adult Swim. Have a good day.
Sam: *Goes to stock footage website*
*Searches for “UPS diver turning left”*
Underwater Parcel Service?
4:08
"Why do UPS trucks never goes left."
Me: Better question is why do UPS trucks never fly.
@@KevinSorbo. Have you ever heard of a joke?
Now you talking
@@KevinSorbo. this guy gets it
@@KevinSorbo. It means acting stupid/lying/exaggerating so that people produce a long "haaaaaaaaaa" sound with regular intervals (hahahaha)
Milo stroopman
Half as interesting - “why UPS trucks never turn left”
Also half as interesting: shows video of a UPS truck casually turning left 4:08
doggo second plot twist: it was pre mirrored before they mirrored it.
Or it could be in the UK
Benjamin Handell the buildings, streets, traffic lights, and cars do not look like those found in the uk. Also ups is not very common in the uk.
EpicVideos okay, good for you. I clearly did not pay as much attention to the buildings, streets, traffic lights and cars as you did.
Nascar: turns only left
UPS: turns only right
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
Finally 2 million subscribers!!! Happy to see this channel growing strong
"there's no way UPS can calculate...."
4:09
Shows footage of driver turning left.
He said ‘They will turn left IF necessary’
Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
Its a one way street
UPS Headquarters: Don't stop and talk to customers.
My delivery guy: stops and plays soccer with me for 10 minutes.
Edit: Soccer/football If I had said football then people would have thought I meant American Football so I put soccer just to clear things up (I am American)
It's football.
Skeppi2 BMGO it’s whatever he wants to call it
Lbomk Either be American or be normal.
TheGamingAlong Why do people care what it’s called, it’s a pointless argument that accomplishes nothing
@@smraddebeli No, it's not. Football isn't a sport, it's a collective name for a large number of kick and run sports that include American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic rules football, both codes of rugby, and other historic sports like cuju in China.
Association football (soccer for short) is just one football code. Calling it just football is about as accurate as calling a spoon "utensil", when that term also includes knives, forks, etc.
The way he introduced the sponsor was so seamless and he does it better than any other UA-camr
When you actually got a pickle Rick pillow recently
**sweats nervously**
The UPS driver that does our pick-up every day has an interesting route to our store.
We're on a fairly busy thoroughfare a block or two off a major highway in Houston, and Houston traffic is amongst the worst. Our road has 3 lanes each way and a 40mph speed limit (most do 50-55mph, even in heavy traffic). We sit on the corner of a minor cross street and there's a suicide lane in each direction.
As a result of his route, our driver makes three rights to be able to cross traffic with a stop light instead of braving the traffic of 6 lanes of traffic.
Every day, both the Orion system in his truck yells at him for not making likely the only left hand turn he's scheduled for, but then his supervisor gets to remind him at the hub when he turns in his truck at the end of the night.
It's hilarious.
I uh... call me retarded, but I don't get the story
UPS: never turns left.
Amazon delivery: drives passed my house 4 times.
src: I am Amazon delivery driver. The navigation is as smart as a fish.
“why do you think she is a witch”
“Her dominant hand isn’t the same as ours”
But does she weigh as much as a duck?
She turned me into a newt
And therefore... a witch!
@@badandy102 but you dont look like a newt
@@thaeldir8923 I got better
UPS Drivers GPS: in 1 mile, turn left
UPS: "I'm never going to financially recover from this"
Stolen comment from astigmatisme and rakim
Tiger King memes were never funny to begin with and have been dead for months. If you're going to steal comments, at least steal good ones that actually add something
lol do yall really just search comment sections on youtube and cross reference similar comments and see which ones were posted the latest then just trash on them. lol
3:54 reminds me of my rottweiler. She was used to our local driver but one day while I was at a park a different driver stopped and she snuck into a random UPS driver's truck when he wasnt looking, scared the shit out of him when he got back into his truck, and then refused to leave until she got her treat.
Half as Interesting: naming everything wrong with left
Me, a lefty: :(
HAI: explains how turning left is more dangerous,use more fuel,takes more time etc.
Me, living in a leftside drive country: visible confusion
Did you mean witch?
@@Cyanidedan ikr
Libby Abbott a witch? BURN HEERRRRR!!!
Shouldn't have been a lefty then
“What good thing has ever been associated with leftness”
Me who is left handed: 😑
I diagnose you with heresy and witchcraft
Kaden Bautista I mean to be fair I haven’t been any good since my birth so he’s still not wrong
scarlett johansson is left handed, does that count?
Amen, bro.
Same
4:08 the truck litterally TURNED LEFT WITH MY RICK AND MORTY BODY PILLOW!!!!
The animation: A UPS truck turning left while running straight over another car and hitting a pedestrian.
4:22 _"UPS trucks are never turning left!!!"_
*while literally showing video of UPS truck turning left*
With a big red cross as if to say: Don't do this!
He might have flipped the video
The video is flipped since(in America) you drive on the right side of the road and they were on the left
Yeah, it's funny... but that's actually a one-way street, meaning the driver doesn't have to cut across traffic, so that particular left-turn is basically same as a right-turn.
@@-Name-here- It's called a 1 way road, not too uncommon in big cities. He was on the left because every lane on the road is going the same direction and he needed to turn left. He even turns onto a 1 way road as well. Pause the video and look at the signs, if the video was flipped the signs like the "TRUCK ROUTE" ones would be flipped as well.
“What good thing has ever been associated with left?”
Me: *is left handed* *in tears* “yep, totally agree”
Meanwhile in a parallel universe :
Why SPU trucks never turn right * shows exclusive turning right*
This would've been the case if UPS existed in India
yea, parallel universe like UK
@@kruttichhwas UPS exists in every country, including North Korea.
The system that UPS uses to determine the route of the trucks is called ORION. Most drivers hate it with a passion. It actually costs the company more in undelivered packages than it saves. But the company executives love the system because they don't drive the trucks or live in the real word.
Well, it's easier to have a computer snitch on employees than actual human-beings. Luckily they don't have to deal with drive-cam
And ORION has you make left turns almost exclusively.
Mythbusters had an episode dealing with exactly this. Their results were inconclusive because their test was getting from A to B and sometimes turning right will make you go in circles, but if you can freely rearrange your waypoints like UPS deliverymen then things might be very different.
Video suggestion:
Why NASCAR drivers almost never turn right.
@Half as Interesting
Also try to convince them to make a video about why In Africa every minute is 60 secs ....while you're at it.
@@thecornishsymmetry138 Africa does not have leap seconds? That might actually be an interesting topic if it were true.
*Driver*: i'm taking the next left, the destination is right there.
*Mathematician*: Are you sure?
UPS Driver: *Turns left*
“This little maneuver’s gonna cost us 51 years”
UPS driver: wait, the next destination is just a left turn from here
Also the same driver: but I can't turn left unless ABSOLUTELY necessary
Also the same driver: so let's drive forward for another block, turn right 3 times and get to the destination. Nice plan
Who needs a truck when you can just drop the packages in via plane?
The militaries do it all the time.
well...otherwise he can just do 270 degree right turn donut at the intersection :)
It is BEYOND stupid. I have literally seen the truck with my package leave my complex and go MILES away, only to come back at the end of the day, just to avoid making a left turn. Literal miles wasted. The algorithm will put all necessary left turns at the very bottom of the delivery list, as well. So if a left turn is required to get to your location, you will never receive a package before late afternoon.
He do it in reverse , in that case it’s a right
@@WardenWolf They're not "miles wasted" if the driver had to go over there anyway.
Short answer: *left* just isn’t the *right* way to go
How has nobody made this joke yet
*God*damn, this is a good pun.
@@komi-san1505 You're supposed to put a space between the star and the next word
*God* Damn, this is a good pun.
Thank you God and Rick Astley, very cool.
@@pirayv3397 Like this? * word *
This explains why I work one block to the left of the ups distribution center and yet my packages are always the last ones to be dropped off!! They could literally walk over and drop off the package and save more money and gas!
The last time I was this early, I was watching videos about planes...
So, yesterday?
@@robertjarman3703 Today since Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 came out today.
If they don’t turn left in the USA does that mean that they don’t turn right in the UK.
No, I live in Britain and that’s not how it works.
@@TheLiamster I would think right turns in Britain would be the more traffic-intensive turns to make. If UPS strategically avoids left turns in drivers' routes in the US, I would think the counterpart would be to avoid right turns in Britain.
“Sexy singles in my area always swipe left when they see my profile tinder”😂😂
"Centrally-located world hub" might be the best compliment ever received by Louisville, KY
And it's gonna be the only one
More importantly we're missing the part where they ninja up to your home, whisper *your package is here* & speeds off like his girlfriend's parents aren't home.
It’s like always following the right (or left) wall of a maze. It will take long, but you’ll visit every place until you get back to the entrance. In the case of a postal service, this is useful, as it provides a simple and efficient way to visit a lot of places quickly.
UPS: We will never turn left
Countries that drive on the left: Hold my beer!
"unless absolutely necessary"
"i wANtED dONuTS"
I'm impressed by how u make a 6min video with 4min intro and 1min outro. To the point man, to the point!!!!
My UPS driver is forced to do three left turns in my area. Then again, this is rural Utah.
This channel is widely underrated.
When I was a ups driver helper we turned left all the time
I’m not sure whether I learned more about UPS delivery routes, or about _Rick & Morty_ body pillows. 🤔
Since the information about UPS not turning left is false, I am going to say it was the pillows
UPS truck: turns left
UPS boss: Wait, that's illegal
Video name- "why ups cars almost never turns left"
4:09- a ups car turns left
(Casually)
"One body probably won't slow down the UPS truck."
The Latin for "left", of course, is "sinister".
“Why UPS trucks never turn left”.
This guy takes 6 minutes to answer a simple question. Just say the answer man. What’s all this rubbish talk. All this extra rubbish just to make the video longer. Not even joking. It’s all useless info. He actually answers the question and says why they don’t turn left in 39 seconds. Just skip to the times 4:25 and stop at 5:04
I am more impressed that he talked for that long about something he was completely wrong about. We turn left all the time. We aren't even taught to minimize left turns.
IF this Channel was "To the Point", but it's "Half as Interesting"
I though the exact same thing. You can skipp 3/4 of the video.
Thank u
Yeah MD Aziz is right
Guess this'd be flipped for Left-Hand-Drive countries then.
That's what I was thinking.
You would think so but I used to work for an Australian company as a delivery driver and they employed the UPS software to optimize routes, so they feed all our customers into the system, re-routed the lot and sent us on our way, low and behold we all of a sudden were swamped with right hand turns which caused no end of grief. As drivers we had been doing our routes for a long time and knew the best way but were told to follow the new routes.
This lasted for about 2 weeks until they were sick of the complaints and we refused to do it the new way.
@@scottdd2 Top down management isnt well informed as a rule.
@@ResortDog That's so true. They couldn't understand why the transport times went higher rather than lower.
"UPS drivers almost never turn left"
UPS truck in background video: *casually turns left*
Pssst it's in britain it's the opposite there
@Davidty 2006 That stock footage was taken in New York.
3:09 Meaning of life being equal to 42 is a nice little reference.
This is a really underhanded/backhanded compliment or whatever it's called, but this channel makes really good bedtime content. It's like all those channels that make list videos or stuff about other tidbits of mostly useless information, but the difference is Half as Interesting is actually just very funny on top of it. Thank you for making delaying my sleep by 2 hours every night not so morally straining, by not having to choose to support garbage content.
The dislikes are from Beyoncé fans because UPS doesn’t “go to the left”
The lyric bounced in the back of my head for a bit before it actually struck me lol
In the US, this really works out. Especially in cities. In general, traffic lights at crossroads are not really well implemented in the US. Two opposing directions get a green light at the same time, so you have to wait to turn left. This can take ages, so UPS is right on this.
It is interesing to find out whether UPS also implements this rule In Europe, where they also operate. Crossroads in Europe (at least western Europe) in general have dedicated lanes for a left turn, with a dedicated traffic light. That traffic light should be set such that the car doesn't have to wait as long as turning left at an "equal" crossroads like the ones in the US.
Uuuuhhhhh... there's a lot of issues in the US but how traffic lights are implemented is definitely not one of them. Idk about you but where I am A LOT of intersections with a traffic light have a dedicated lane to turn left. Also how they do the traffic light thing is rlly on a case by case basis. Some traffic lights have (let's just use the cardinal directions as an example of what it would look like from a top down view, and also I'm going to refer to a "stage" as which cars go each time the traffic light changes) Stage 1. South going straight North and North going straight South Stage 2. South turning West and North turning East Stage 3. West going straight East and East going straight West Stage 4. East turning South and West turning North. And then the ppl turning right can turn whenever. Other traffic lights do stage 1. South going North and West Stage 2. North going South and East Stage 3. East going West and South Stage 4. West going East and North. (Not necessarily in that order) Idk what the issue with that is
4:08
"wait..bu- thats illegal-"
4:30 In this scenario I don't think turning right would have avoided the accident. I would try not plowing through the car already stopped at the intersection.
At 5:00 I think you mean 350K more Rick and Morty body pillows each year.
you turned a 30 seconds of knowledge into a 6 minute video, I think its been your record so far. I want my 5 minutes and 30 seconds back.
Laughs in former British colony
I studied the travelling salesman problem as a student. Yes there are masses of potential routes for delivering about 120 parcels. But the vast majority of route combinations are obviously not optimal and can be eliminated immediately. So the problem can be simplified. For example divide the drivers delivery area into smaller geographical zones, say of 20-30 deliveries. Optimising the delivery route within a zone should be easy for today’s computers. Then all you need to do is sequence the zones, using the same or similar method. Solution should be close enough to optimal to make no practical difference.
2:45 Yet, UPS never calls or lets you know a package is coming, and all the drivers end up doing useless trips because I didn't know they were trying to get in only to meet a locked apartment building door. *shrugs* I sure wish they'd think more about time savings.
Joonas Mäkinen ups drivers don't have time to call every single customer. Imagine if you have 180 deliveries, would you call every time? No, it consumes time. You can track your package online for an estimated time of delivery. As for apartments, customer needs to provide an access code
@@nicoriss22 Busyness depends where you live. DHL can do it (calling) just fine, and one can inform them about new arrangements before a potential futile attempt - can't with UPS. And regardless how UPS would need an access code provided by customer, their customer is the webstore you're buying from, and rarely do they acknowledge this need and relay the information to UPS.
@@JoonasD6 that’s why DHL is a dying company, most deliveries can be released safely without the customer being home therefore more deliveries completed more money made, they don’t have time to call and wait...
@@haydenpalmer9656 Where I live I have to tick a box when I get the tracking number that I am allowing package delivery without me being present.
So I guess, you could call those out just automatically send a message that your parcel is arriving in this time period (3 hour window).
And also you have no option to reschedule a first time delivery if you see that you won't be able to receive it that day.
You can automate some steps and save time with it, and properly notifying the receiver is one of those things.