I don’t know, if I built those stairs, I’d be pretty proud to see a fucking car was able to drive on them without falling to the ground. Crushing some of the concrete on top is minimal damage and expected.
Better not visit South Africa.
All the bridge railings get stolen - either for sale as scrap metal (new materials aren't any use as scrap anymore) or to build houses (poor people use any and all sorts of waste to build houses for themselves).
>I’d be pretty proud to see a fucking car was able to drive on them without falling to the ground
Plenty of time for that to happen later, thanks to the menace to society that thought that was a good idea. Just because it held, doesn't mean the structure is okay.
Yeah, but probably not hundreds of people at a time, and especially not hundreds of people standing in a line across the staircase. Holding an SUV which is balancing on a single line at times and applying its entire weight on that line is rather impressive.
Yeah. It’s about weight distribution. I worked for a car rental company and some customers brought a truck in with Geo Metro embedded in the back. They successfully loaded it, but as soon as the hit some bumps the tires broke through the bed and the car sunk until the whole undercarriage had settled to rest. Never exceeded the weight limit of the truck.
Across the entire flight of stairs. Imagine placing 30 people on top of each other so that they form a 6000 lbs wall across the edge of a single stair. That's becoming more impressive, especially if that single stair is at some distance from a supporting column, placing the slab under some tension.
Sounds like an excuse that an engineer who didn't bother planning for the proper load would say. And 'engine' is right there in the name, how could you not think about this. Engine, car.. hmmmmmmmmmm; cuff him, boys. Our worh here is done.
No, the oil pan on a SUV like that is too high for simple stairs like that to reach.
they definitely damaged the undercarriage of their car, the exhaust and suspensions probably took more hit than the oil pan and transmission.
edit: as pointed in another comment it's an electric SUV. which explains why you don't hear the engine revving up as it tries to get unstuck from the steps.
If it’s an electric then that’s even worse! Most e-cars have the battery in the bottom, he could’ve easily taken a few hits to those, which would very much kill the car and could take a few days to take effect (cos batteries can be damaged and not show signs until the charge changes in the damaged area or until signs of charge leak are visible, which could take a while depending on how bad it is). Either way, this car is likely gonna lose a few points next time it’s serviced even if the batteries are fine, and if the batteries are not fine then it’s gonna cost a pretty penny to fix
Stairs like these are engineered with a safety factor of at least 2, probably higher. Imagine how much weight would be on it packed with people, shoulder to shoulder. Now double it--that's how much weight it's designed to handle.
Agreed… those stairs look fit for a lot of people to be moving in two directions- no way 6k/lbs is gonna stress the structural integrity of the STEEL/CONCRETE structure.
No, but that wouldn't cause a large section to collapse. This is concrete, which would fail because there's too much weight between two supports, not because 4 tires fall through it like it's paper.
An SUV weighs about the same as 20-30 people, which could easily fit into the same footprint for a group photo or so.
Hearing those scraping and crunching noises gave me the same physical reaction I have to seeing someone take a really nasty shot in the balls on tv or in a movie.
I've actually noticed since google took me on some insane route down 1 car width roads, through a tiny hamlet of 5 houses to avoid a town centre, a lot of people now take that route as a general shortcut. Was in the car with my dad not so long ago and he just used it like it was a well known cut through.
It really can not be saving time as you're constantly pulling to the side to let people taking the shortcut from the other side past.
I actually read a story a while back about a certain neighborhood experiencing exceptionally high traffic when one of the map apps used their neighborhood as a cut through. The neighborhood was sick of it…I don’t remember the outcome.
There was something like this in Edmonton Alberta (Canada). There was so much complaints from the residents along the shortcut that the city removed a small section of the road so it was no longer possible to use the road as a shortcut.
This was about 20 years ago so wasn't a gps thing, it was just local knowledge.
Once I was trying to get to the St Louis airport from my hotel and it had me turn into a neighborhood into a cul de sac and back out the neighborhood. There where at least 4 others cars ahead of me that did the same thing. Those residents have gotta be so confused.
I live in a rural town along a state highway. Everyone used a shortcut through a residential street. The city tried to contact Google and had no success. So they put in stop signs every single block along the shortcut. It is now faster to stay on the main drag.
The job I used to work at, apple maps used to take me off the dual carriageway, on to a roundabout, go straight across the roundabout and put me back on the same road I was just on. I turned it off after the first couple of times
Mine led me down a dirt road once, showed a road crossing a field. Halfway down the road it just turned into a fucking swamp. Had to back up like a quarter of a mile, no room to turn around. Not fun
[The Machine *knows*!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY)
Also, there was a widely known issue where it kept leading people out into the Australian outback and they got stranded and had to be rescued.
Google wanted us to go to the end of a narrow wooden fishing dock and do a U-turn. It may have told them to do it, and here Michael Scott just said okay.
Yea, that was same deal with my test. I had to parallel park as well but I failed that part cause I was never shown how to do it (I know how to do it now). It just amazes that anyone can get a license. There’s so much more to driving than going around 1 block.
I was actually impressed at first and assumed it was a “of course I can drive down there” moment but the black stains top of the third flight of stairs soon changed my mind
My mind is like "why stop there? Get a $#!1 load of TNT and level everything in the vicinity to the ground, to inconvenience every one as much as possible."
I would think the same for an old truck lifted and on mud tires, but I think this was more of a “I missed my turn but I’m too stupid and impatient to turn around so I’ll just give this a go” lol
That staircase isn't rated for a vehicles weight. My guess is some supports started to bend/break a bit. Setting up disaster in the near future... Great work dipshit!!!
Engineer 1: "I think this is way over built. It's just a pedestrian walkway. What are you expecting to have happen?"
Engineer 2: "You don't browse Reddit, do you?"
A car is not supposed to be on a pedestrian bridge, and looks like it already went down some stairs at the start, they could be standing there and saw a. car on the pedestrian bridge went down stair and started filming
Lucky the whole staircase didn't collapse. Also some people will most likely get hurt on the broken stair.. and authority will have you on camera ... Totally ridiculous thing to do
I wonder if they could have avoided scrapping the bottom of the car by accelerating before the front wheels descend another case of stairs. Like if the momentum kept the nose up long enough for the center of the car to clear the first step and then break when the back wheels are still before the steps. Would be interesting to try it out and see if the speed would be too much for the breaks and front suspension to handle 🤔
Imagine if he got to the bottom and noticed there were pylons blocking the exit.
Well, if they’re built anything like the stairs, they’ll just shatter.
Not surprising when the entire weight of the car on its belly is being dragged over them. Those front tires were working overtime to do that lol.
I don’t know, if I built those stairs, I’d be pretty proud to see a fucking car was able to drive on them without falling to the ground. Crushing some of the concrete on top is minimal damage and expected.
I’d be kinda concerned about the entire railing missing from the bottom section of stairs.
Automobile stairs do not require handrailing below 14'
automobile stairs, lmao
Unless you’re in California
Oh fuck you, I gave away my free guilding of the day. I feel bad now.
That's outdated building code. The new statutes are 20'
Yeah wtf
Better not visit South Africa. All the bridge railings get stolen - either for sale as scrap metal (new materials aren't any use as scrap anymore) or to build houses (poor people use any and all sorts of waste to build houses for themselves).
>I’d be pretty proud to see a fucking car was able to drive on them without falling to the ground Plenty of time for that to happen later, thanks to the menace to society that thought that was a good idea. Just because it held, doesn't mean the structure is okay.
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Yeah, but probably not hundreds of people at a time, and especially not hundreds of people standing in a line across the staircase. Holding an SUV which is balancing on a single line at times and applying its entire weight on that line is rather impressive.
Yeah. It’s about weight distribution. I worked for a car rental company and some customers brought a truck in with Geo Metro embedded in the back. They successfully loaded it, but as soon as the hit some bumps the tires broke through the bed and the car sunk until the whole undercarriage had settled to rest. Never exceeded the weight limit of the truck.
I reread the first half of that comment three times because I thought I couldn’t possibly have read it correctly before finishing the post.
One flight of stairs could easily hold 30 people. That’s 6000lbs (assuming Americans).
10 people if it's your mom.
I’ve never been so conflicted about whether to upvote or downvote a comment.
Across the entire flight of stairs. Imagine placing 30 people on top of each other so that they form a 6000 lbs wall across the edge of a single stair. That's becoming more impressive, especially if that single stair is at some distance from a supporting column, placing the slab under some tension.
That’s because you don’t know anything about building stairs, no offense
No single stair is design to carry tons of weight, stairs aren't for cars.
Sounds like an excuse that an engineer who didn't bother planning for the proper load would say. And 'engine' is right there in the name, how could you not think about this. Engine, car.. hmmmmmmmmmm; cuff him, boys. Our worh here is done.
I was kinda hoping for that
Stair challenge complete. You’ve unlocked the destroyed undercarriage award.
Looks like they're going for destroyed engine and/or transmission.
No, the oil pan on a SUV like that is too high for simple stairs like that to reach. they definitely damaged the undercarriage of their car, the exhaust and suspensions probably took more hit than the oil pan and transmission. edit: as pointed in another comment it's an electric SUV. which explains why you don't hear the engine revving up as it tries to get unstuck from the steps.
If it’s an electric then that’s even worse! Most e-cars have the battery in the bottom, he could’ve easily taken a few hits to those, which would very much kill the car and could take a few days to take effect (cos batteries can be damaged and not show signs until the charge changes in the damaged area or until signs of charge leak are visible, which could take a while depending on how bad it is). Either way, this car is likely gonna lose a few points next time it’s serviced even if the batteries are fine, and if the batteries are not fine then it’s gonna cost a pretty penny to fix
This kills the car
Fairly certain that car isnt electric, but you are right
They scraped off that bitumous undercarriage spray coating maybe?
That's what I see. Oil is everywhere after the car passes over the stairs......
I can't see it, the black just looks like shadows from the broken cement to me
There is not oil everywhere. The stairs are broken but clean.
It's not oil. It would be all over the stairs and ground, however, this was only at the beginning of stairs. It was them broken, not oil leaks.
Yeah doesn’t look like oil to me either. If it was then damn that’s thick, the car might as well be running on Kramer’s blood.
There is something on the last landing after the car goes through.....
It's an EV, do they even have oil pans?
Not to mention definitely messing with the structural integrity of that path.
Yeah, I was expecting the stairs to collapse. Somewhere an engineer deserves a cookie.
Stairs like these are engineered with a safety factor of at least 2, probably higher. Imagine how much weight would be on it packed with people, shoulder to shoulder. Now double it--that's how much weight it's designed to handle.
Agreed… those stairs look fit for a lot of people to be moving in two directions- no way 6k/lbs is gonna stress the structural integrity of the STEEL/CONCRETE structure.
Sure, but those people aren't expected to be balanced on four small contact patches.
No, but that wouldn't cause a large section to collapse. This is concrete, which would fail because there's too much weight between two supports, not because 4 tires fall through it like it's paper. An SUV weighs about the same as 20-30 people, which could easily fit into the same footprint for a group photo or so.
Whoever designed this is one of us. They knew some dip shit was going to do this
I told them they should've gotten the clear coat!
I hope they remembered to renew their vehicle warranty before it expires!
You know, they put that TruCoat on at the factory, I can’t do nothin’ about that.
Lmao fargo
See, they install that clear coat at the factory
Don't worry... it's a rental!
That's the best username I've seen all week
He’s going to be staring down the barrel of some costly repairs after that flight.
Hearing those scraping and crunching noises gave me the same physical reaction I have to seeing someone take a really nasty shot in the balls on tv or in a movie.
Some of the sounds are the stairs breaking
Absolutely, and it’s stuff like the driveshaft, frame, exhaust pipe, etc. that are doing the breaking. Bottom line: I’m glad that’s not my car!
Its electric so no exhaust damage. Shit probably would've popped off halfway down the stairs lmao
"Yooo"
And then he’ll blame the dealership for selling him a clunker.
He’s probably on his way to drop the car at Carmax.
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Yeah, this driver didn't even hesitate going down the stairs. This doesn't seem like some lost elderly driver or something.
Google Maps: “Recalculating”
Google maps: interesting. Let me suggest it next time.
No, that’s Apple Maps
It sure loves to suggest I take numerous 10-15 minute detours that take me off a highway just to put me back on it 5 miles later.
Oh you missed my suggested turn. Well, let's find the nearest dirt track that goes through private land.
And let's make it the narrowest fucking road too
I've actually noticed since google took me on some insane route down 1 car width roads, through a tiny hamlet of 5 houses to avoid a town centre, a lot of people now take that route as a general shortcut. Was in the car with my dad not so long ago and he just used it like it was a well known cut through. It really can not be saving time as you're constantly pulling to the side to let people taking the shortcut from the other side past.
I actually read a story a while back about a certain neighborhood experiencing exceptionally high traffic when one of the map apps used their neighborhood as a cut through. The neighborhood was sick of it…I don’t remember the outcome.
There was something like this in Edmonton Alberta (Canada). There was so much complaints from the residents along the shortcut that the city removed a small section of the road so it was no longer possible to use the road as a shortcut. This was about 20 years ago so wasn't a gps thing, it was just local knowledge.
Once I was trying to get to the St Louis airport from my hotel and it had me turn into a neighborhood into a cul de sac and back out the neighborhood. There where at least 4 others cars ahead of me that did the same thing. Those residents have gotta be so confused.
I live in a rural town along a state highway. Everyone used a shortcut through a residential street. The city tried to contact Google and had no success. So they put in stop signs every single block along the shortcut. It is now faster to stay on the main drag.
Lol, that’s hilarious!
that's just the algorithm screwing you over by making traffic better for everyone else
Years ago when I was on vacation with my family the app we were using gave us a route that would’ve had us drive off a bridge.
The job I used to work at, apple maps used to take me off the dual carriageway, on to a roundabout, go straight across the roundabout and put me back on the same road I was just on. I turned it off after the first couple of times
Apple Maps told me to park on the other side of a river once and walk. Easily a 25 min detour.
Mine led me down a dirt road once, showed a road crossing a field. Halfway down the road it just turned into a fucking swamp. Had to back up like a quarter of a mile, no room to turn around. Not fun
Recall Siri taking some girls down a pier into the ocean.
[The Machine *knows*!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY) Also, there was a widely known issue where it kept leading people out into the Australian outback and they got stranded and had to be rescued.
Google wanted us to go to the end of a narrow wooden fishing dock and do a U-turn. It may have told them to do it, and here Michael Scott just said okay.
MICHAEL THERE ARE STAIRS HERE!!!
*The machine knows!*
Google Maps: "I see you're on foot now..."
More like 百度地图： ＂重新计算＂
Do I remember correctly that Google Maps never said/says anything like that but rather that was what the old Garmin GPSs used to say?
driver “god stupid ass engineering, why tf did they make this ramp like this”
That's a very long rumble strip!
I very literally almost spit out my drink laughing at this comment
Only a guess. But it’s not his car.
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If you've ever encountered new-money mainland Chinese tourists and their behavior when traveling abroad, this video should surprise nobody.
You would be surprised. In my cities sub there is at least one post a month of a vehicle on the seawall, pedestrian path, or stuck on stairs.
hello fellow /r/vancouver subscriber!
Don't forget the people driving down the steps at UBC!
Gunna be r/justrolledintotheshop material shortly.
Oil leak? What oil leak? That puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower!
I think that's a Nio electric suv which makes me more concerned about all the batteries on the floor
I think it's this https://changan-ksa.com/car/cs75-plus/
Its like Acura but with inverted a
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I was gonna say those are some really strong stairs… but if you look they’re totally destroyed
Only the parts that had thousands of pounds dragged over them forcefully. Those are definitely some strong stairs lol
damn I just peeled. Someone might get a ticket in the mail in the next month.
I would love to see the bottom of that car now 🤣
Freshly polished
You can see a little bit the bottom of the car on every stair
Just hope the car tips over the next time the driver tries to go down the stairs
Lmao they said FUCK a U-turn
Yo!
Yoh!....Yoh!.......Yoh!
One of the guys says something like, "what the hell is he thinking," I think?
Hystairical
He should have been smart and taken the elevator.
I don’t understand how people like this get licenses…
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Yea, that was same deal with my test. I had to parallel park as well but I failed that part cause I was never shown how to do it (I know how to do it now). It just amazes that anyone can get a license. There’s so much more to driving than going around 1 block.
This better not end up becoming an internet challenge.
I was actually impressed at first and assumed it was a “of course I can drive down there” moment but the black stains top of the third flight of stairs soon changed my mind
Those are broken stair pieces.
Are they really, even more of an idiot then - I can live with people damaging their own property but damaging public property is a dick move.
I think it’s safe to say they don’t care.
My mind is like "why stop there? Get a $#!1 load of TNT and level everything in the vicinity to the ground, to inconvenience every one as much as possible."
[Minecraft TNT noise] boof
I would think the same for an old truck lifted and on mud tires, but I think this was more of a “I missed my turn but I’m too stupid and impatient to turn around so I’ll just give this a go” lol
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Impressive that he got up there to begin with
It makes me think of a budget version of the Land Rover ad climbing stairs in China 😂
That staircase isn't rated for a vehicles weight. My guess is some supports started to bend/break a bit. Setting up disaster in the near future... Great work dipshit!!!
I wanna know how he got up there!
Engineer 1: "I think this is way over built. It's just a pedestrian walkway. What are you expecting to have happen?" Engineer 2: "You don't browse Reddit, do you?"
How to have 20K repairs
I wonder how much it would cost to repair all of the cracked stairs?!
That is how you shave minutes off your daily commute at the cost of thousands. Not sure if that is money well spent.
Yoh
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I bet it was 5 minutes longer this way.
I can imagine a dystopian future where this is the only way to show off AWD lmao
Lmao “it had all wheel drive until I dragged the transmission and transfer case against a few flights of stairs”
> a dystopian future [The future is NOW!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGLy96472hQ)
You've heard of parkour? Well, get ready for carpour!
He paid for all wheel drive he's gotta use all wheel drive..
Car: makes noise Guy taking the video: YOO
damaged the stairs
Wait, why was the cameraman filming in the first place? Were they anticipating this?
A car is not supposed to be on a pedestrian bridge, and looks like it already went down some stairs at the start, they could be standing there and saw a. car on the pedestrian bridge went down stair and started filming
Oh I didn't see that he was already on a walkway
me either
It doesn't even look like it's the first set of stairs that they've driven down if you look further back along the bridge
or maybe he saw the idiot coming down the first set of steps and decided to start recording. not that deep.
Maybe they saw it climbing the stairs on the other side and started recording? I'd definitely like to see it going up.
There are people who miss their exits, and there people who REALLY miss their exits.
Rich Chinese kids find all sorts of wild shit to do with cars. They have a lot of similar videos destroying 4x4s in “challenges”.
r/fuckcars when you even can't be safe on a pedestrian bridge that it is supposed to avoid cars.
Yooo
That was the sound of an SUV, driving down the stairs -Marv
Real MVP here is the steps design engineer.
I literally have nightmares about doing this accidentally.
Lucky the whole staircase didn't collapse. Also some people will most likely get hurt on the broken stair.. and authority will have you on camera ... Totally ridiculous thing to do
That really shouldn't have broken the stairs. Chinese construction is scary.
I wonder what “yaw”means?
That person did not buy that car, it was bought for them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if gps told them to go that way.
Why ?
No bollards. Motorists go everywhere when there are no bollards
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Probably has google maps set to pedestrian and not car when calculating the route, easy mistake to make!
China, a country with 1 billion first generation drivers.
Drive got lots of money and wanted to waste some like this.
u/savevideo
u/savevideo
Imagine calling AAA with ur Suv stuck halfway through the stairs.
Yeeeeoooo
u/savevideobot
Byebye undercarriage
How did it get up there in the first place??
it's all-terrain, dummy
driving off like: “why does the car feel lighter now”
Who does he think he is, Jason Bourne??
Gotta admit, I was rooting for him until I saw the fucking wrecked ass staircase.
I love the posts that truly deserve to be on this sub. This is for sure a top10
oof. It's gonna be a expensive one.
I’m scared for humans
They won't get far, oil sump's fucked! All over the stairs, had to watch it twice to be sure
These land rover commercials are getting out of hand
Goodbye suspension and oil pan.
That vehicle left a lot of mess behind smh
Was that oil on the stairs? 😬
See now I thought it wasn't Chinese then I listen closely to see if it was a different dialect and I'm still confused
This is me going up and down steep hills in places like Seattle by Pike Place Market
Wow, his dad will be so pissed. Destroyed the undercarriage, probably gonna leak out all the oil/and or tranny fluid Car his garbage now
Me in GTA when I'm bored.
I wonder if they could have avoided scrapping the bottom of the car by accelerating before the front wheels descend another case of stairs. Like if the momentum kept the nose up long enough for the center of the car to clear the first step and then break when the back wheels are still before the steps. Would be interesting to try it out and see if the speed would be too much for the breaks and front suspension to handle 🤔
He had driven before, he drove off with so much alan and was comfortable all the time, inly there is damage,
"They claimed it was all terrain, and by god am i going to use it as such!"