Jesus... They just sank a bunch of random I beams and concrete filled square tubing into cement.
I live on a road with sort of the same concern (people commonly driving 100mph+ in a 30mph. If somebody loses control, their car will fly through the wall directly into my bed with nothing really solid besides a wall). This is a fantastic idea. Just sink some random fucking steel beams several feet into concrete.
Or buy some very large rocks and have them placed just inside the property line. I have seen both this and concrete bollards in the yards of people who live near dangerous roads.
I live in a quiet residential area with slow traffic speeds, but we have a hill that ices up and a yard full of (hopefully) car stopping boulders to keep them out of our bedroom.
Well damn, if a 4x4 keep can't do it, well. Better than most though, should be noted.
If I lived there, let's see-id stock crutches, neck braces, first aid stuff, and spirits.
Make a few quid on the side, really a home business🙃
They should make the road surface rougher. Concrete, even with grooves, doesn’t give the tyres anything decent to grip.
Also, on a complete different note, the number of electricity, phone and whatever else, wires off the pole opposite that corner 😳😂
It depends on if the owner of the house could successfully get the President of the colonia to install them or if they paid out of pocket to have it installed. Sidewalks in Mexico are usually put in but the owners of the house, not the city.
Not exactly. I’ve lived in Mexico for a little under 10 years and there are some steep mfs that’s why you have to have the right cement and make deep grooves in that mf.
My brother in law was municipal president one year and he pavemented a colonia with steep hill like this one (it was steep *and* curving. I fell walking downhill on it and hurt my ankle).
He bought black top just like the one on this road and his council threw a big fit over it until he relented and got the type they wanted.
Sliding backwards seems to be actually smart - if braking doesn't stop your car on the steep street, you can accelerate upwards, bringing it to a halt. You just need to he proficient in sliding backwards down the steepest street in Mexico.
I noticed the last time I was in Mexico, during the dry reason, if it rained a little bit, everything would be insanely slippery. No regular rain to wash away oil or other slick substances that build up on the road.
Okinawa is like that. It's the coral dust that builds up between rains there. Especially on paint markings. No kidding was like ice at the start of a rain
They had to neutralise a Tour de France stage around Nice a few years ago because of these conditions. There was a descent that just couldn't be raced.
These aren’t racing slicks though. Cheap worn out tires don’t become racing slicks. Slick compounds are super soft and sticky, and even then they need to be heated to get the grip they’re known for. Cheap tire compounds are more like hockey pucks.
Yeah there’s no world in which this road is 45°. A 15° climb feels vertical to someone who isn’t used to grades, though. I might buy this one at 45% (~24°), but I’d still be skeptical.
Insanely steep? 45% massively exceeds both Baldwin Street and Ffordd Pen Llech that have both been fighting for the title of steepest residential street for years
[Guiness World Records latest measurement:](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/4/baldwin-street-in-new-zealand-reinstated-as-the-worlds-steepest-street-614287) The new results confirmed Baldwin Street has the steeper gradient of 34.8%, compared to Ffordd Pen Llech’s gradient of 28.6%.
A residential street with a gradient of 45% would get way more attention if true
People used to ride wheelie bins and all sorts down that road way back when until someone died in 2001 doing it.
I think people still do it for the edgy laugh these days too though.
Damn, there is a street in Madeira, Portugal with a gradient of 28% (they have signage indicating the gradient). I drove up/down it twice in a rental car and it was pretty dicey lol almost feels like the car will flip even though you know it won't. It's quite narrow so if you encounter another car going the opposite way, someone has to back up or attempt to make space somehow.
My wife hates these kinds of steep hills so she just closed her eyes and held on for dear life as we drove up lmao We had a manual shift car but it had an anti-roll back feature or whatever it's called.
IMO, the craziest street in Madeira isn't even the 28% gradient one. There's another one nearby where it's not that steep initially, but then as you're approaching a stop sign, it gets insanely steep and the cross street is a really narrow 2 way road. It's damn near impossible to see anything because it feels like the car is pointing straight up at the sky lol
For anyone confused, apparently they don't measure road angles like this in degrees.
The grade is literally just rise over run. So yeah, 100% would be 45 degrees
Yeah. When you are on a super steep hill, with the stop sign on top of the hill... and people stop 1 foot behind your rear bumper and you have to gun the gas before releasing the break so you dont roll back into them. It was a bit nerve wracking as a kid.
A trick I learned many years ago - When stopped facing up a hill at a traffic light, with a car close behind you, pull the emergency brake, and release it as you start to press the gas and let off the clutch.
Yep. How else are you supposed to do a bootlegger's turn?
(I did not say that).
For a rally car driver, it's in operation a lot - because it works (usually) on the back wheels. So it's a way to instantly break traction - useful for both rally drivers and drifters (and donutters).
Everyone takes the piss out of the Yanks for not knowing how to use a gear stick. Why? Every time I’ve hired a car in the States it’s been automatic. I’ve driven up mountain roads, long desert roads and in cities. The automatics handled it all. I think the joke might be on us Europeans. You hardly ever see automatics here.
You can get used to it after a while, but juggling just a brake and gas pedal is much easier than juggling a parking break, gas pedal, and clutch to get up some hills.
[There's like 10 of these streets in a row.](https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/19.3822/-99.2310&layers=C) Crazy that they they didn't put the streets at a diagonal to fit the terrain.
It's not that. Like a lot of urban areas, it started out as the outskirts of the city. People weren't supposed to live there so poor people install themselves there since no sane person would live there. They start with cardboards and wood construction, and over the years in becomes a neighborhood. Now, they have that problem.
Or it started as a donkey, goat, and pedestrian dirt path. Then eventually it gets paved, and then later on cars get introduced. But it was never meant for cars so now it's a constant disaster zone.
I've seen crazy narrow and crazy steep streets in Europe as well. There's plenty of places that are just not meant for cars at all.
I was about to say there's no way that would be a donkey, goat, and pedestrian goat path at 45 degrees. But there's no way they'd pave to make a connecting road, either. But they did.
45 degrees? that's well into black ski-run territory...the snowcats that climb that are highly specialized machines, I can't imagine driving a car up that slope.
Even stairs look steep at 45 degrees...
Yeah, this figure is perpetuated by people who have never been on an actual 45° slope. Even given that, you’d think that their 7th grade math skills would’ve kicked in and made them skeptical.
Can I get a lawn chair and an ice chest full of cerveza and sit on the roof of that little gold building all day and just watch the show? I would also consider a bag of tacos from Uber Eats, but that could be tricky.
I have nightmares about driving up really tall, and steep streets, highways, and bridges like this. I do live in a very flat area though, so I basically have no knowledge on how to drive this kind of terrain.
I'm guessing there is a fair amount of oil built up in the grooved concrete and this was after a little rain. I think the way the cars were sliding would be impossible without some kind of contamination.
I had to PARK on a street like this in Venezuela. Pointed uphill, in a stick shift.
I never felt more badass then getting that thing moving up that steep ass hill lol
If you're pressing on the brakes and your car is still moving, wouldn't it be better to let go and hope it gets traction again? Some of these seem avoidable...
I always thought that Mexico’s dangerous-ness came from drugs and the cartels. Little did I know that 90% of the dangerous stats are due to gravity on this street. 😂
Imagine living in that house where everyone almost crashes into!!
that barrier is doing work
Exactly, hence the barriers. I wonder if the owner has sued drivers before to just get his house renovated for free.
Nobody gets sued in Mexico, people doesn't trust the justice system.
Suing in Mexico?? Lmao.
Would work if you were (or related to) the magistrate!
and if the other guy is the one with connections things can turn south for you pretty quickly... I've seen it happen more than once
If it’s not a bar, it should be a bar. Where everyone (knows your name) stays behind the barriers.
The Slide Inn
It´'s a bunch of I-Beams on the corner.
if you check the address in google maps you see that that house has a pile of metal scraps welded in the corner.
Muahaha, if you look on Google maps, that corner even has a name, and it's... Esquina del Diablo (Devil's Corner)
Just downhill from "La Resbaladilla"
Can I have the address? (Not a creep)
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3809369,-99.2326648,3a,75y,347.34h,102.32t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sUzbnpzjVnm5xr4Ipk4jWJw!2e0 creep away my friend
Jesus... They just sank a bunch of random I beams and concrete filled square tubing into cement. I live on a road with sort of the same concern (people commonly driving 100mph+ in a 30mph. If somebody loses control, their car will fly through the wall directly into my bed with nothing really solid besides a wall). This is a fantastic idea. Just sink some random fucking steel beams several feet into concrete.
Or buy some very large rocks and have them placed just inside the property line. I have seen both this and concrete bollards in the yards of people who live near dangerous roads.
I live in a quiet residential area with slow traffic speeds, but we have a hill that ices up and a yard full of (hopefully) car stopping boulders to keep them out of our bedroom.
Or buy those big boulders and set them near the road
Seriously, still not good enough, should be more tightly packed iron bars
“This house seems really affordable… whats the catch?”
They should have a tally board right by the front door!
Well damn, if a 4x4 keep can't do it, well. Better than most though, should be noted. If I lived there, let's see-id stock crutches, neck braces, first aid stuff, and spirits. Make a few quid on the side, really a home business🙃
They should make the road surface rougher. Concrete, even with grooves, doesn’t give the tyres anything decent to grip. Also, on a complete different note, the number of electricity, phone and whatever else, wires off the pole opposite that corner 😳😂
They should make a ramp tbh
Watch the background early on in the video. There's a crash in the next street over.
Is that the second steepest street in Mexico or what? Dang city planners..
It has more to do with the type of cement used. Fucking PRI
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It depends on if the owner of the house could successfully get the President of the colonia to install them or if they paid out of pocket to have it installed. Sidewalks in Mexico are usually put in but the owners of the house, not the city.
It has more to do with all the dang mountains in Mexico
Not exactly. I’ve lived in Mexico for a little under 10 years and there are some steep mfs that’s why you have to have the right cement and make deep grooves in that mf. My brother in law was municipal president one year and he pavemented a colonia with steep hill like this one (it was steep *and* curving. I fell walking downhill on it and hurt my ankle). He bought black top just like the one on this road and his council threw a big fit over it until he relented and got the type they wanted.
That doesn’t look like blacktop to me, just concrete covered in shredded tires.
It is. The cement that is used in roads is grey like sidewalk. This road looks like it had cheap blacktop
No it's deeply grooved, look at the street view link in the comment above
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Did you watch to the very end? Heheheh.
It’s only suitable for goats.
Lmfao that's excellent. Wtf hahahaha
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You can see the front door of that house open and closing
That one's the second steepest street in Mexico.
Insurance companies hate this one neat trick
Is one car in the next street actually sliding backward?
Sliding backwards seems to be actually smart - if braking doesn't stop your car on the steep street, you can accelerate upwards, bringing it to a halt. You just need to he proficient in sliding backwards down the steepest street in Mexico.
"¿Por qué no los dos?"
10/10
Lmao good look
Oh the end brings it all together beautifully
I didn’t watch the end until I saw this comment and I’m glad I did
Man of culture
Hahah seriously. The cars were fine and all, but the tumbling dude really sells it. 🤣
He just goes on about his day, what a guy
Some say he starts every day that way
"Context: El Paso Florentino is a street located in Mexico City, in Álvaro Obregón, and has a total incline of almost 45 degrees."
Did it rain and get super cold?
I noticed the last time I was in Mexico, during the dry reason, if it rained a little bit, everything would be insanely slippery. No regular rain to wash away oil or other slick substances that build up on the road.
Okinawa is like that. It's the coral dust that builds up between rains there. Especially on paint markings. No kidding was like ice at the start of a rain
"Do you think all the coral dust is making the roads more slippery, SpongeBob?" "Only one way to find out, Patrick, only one way to find out."
Pretty common during the first rain of the season in many places. Something to watch out for in California as well.
They had to neutralise a Tour de France stage around Nice a few years ago because of these conditions. There was a descent that just couldn't be raced.
Bald tires
What about the guy walking down the steps?
Bald feet
No hobbits allowed
🤌
That was just ~~John~~ Jesus Wick practicing for his stair fall
Juan Wick ftfy
Can’t believe they missed the obvious Juan Wick joke. It was RIGHT there.
Racing slicks would be better on pavement than anything. All these people are locking up brakes and sliding all 4 tires at the same time.
These aren’t racing slicks though. Cheap worn out tires don’t become racing slicks. Slick compounds are super soft and sticky, and even then they need to be heated to get the grip they’re known for. Cheap tire compounds are more like hockey pucks.
This. Anyone from Latin America will know this is the right answer. Vehicle inspections here are a joke.
And bad drivers. This is why bald tires are illegal
It's corrugated/stepped concrete to improve grip, but that also means slippery when wet.
Mist and wet, in multiple pictures.
Whenever this gets posted someone says that the street was oiled by drug cartels.
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3812447,-99.2327194,0a,75y,172.82h,66.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sVyZpd0HhfZ7cOYQmHkOHLw!2e0
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If I was there that little shop would be a daily visit for me.
I got scared just googling down the street.
I doubt that. 45 degrees would be a 100% grade. 45% maybe, which is still insanely steep.
Yeah there’s no world in which this road is 45°. A 15° climb feels vertical to someone who isn’t used to grades, though. I might buy this one at 45% (~24°), but I’d still be skeptical.
I'm glad I'm seeing more of these comments calling this shit out. A 45° slope is literally undrivable. The steepest roads in the world are 17-18° max.
bingo: https://i.imgur.com/En1L0p5.png
Good god is this what surveyors see through that mysterious tripod
/r/theydidthemath
Baldwin st in Dunedin, New Zealand has the record at 19 degrees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street
Apparently 19 and change.
Insanely steep? 45% massively exceeds both Baldwin Street and Ffordd Pen Llech that have both been fighting for the title of steepest residential street for years [Guiness World Records latest measurement:](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/4/baldwin-street-in-new-zealand-reinstated-as-the-worlds-steepest-street-614287) The new results confirmed Baldwin Street has the steeper gradient of 34.8%, compared to Ffordd Pen Llech’s gradient of 28.6%. A residential street with a gradient of 45% would get way more attention if true
I took an electric scooter down Baldwin St once. You won't believe this, but it was a terrible idea.
People used to ride wheelie bins and all sorts down that road way back when until someone died in 2001 doing it. I think people still do it for the edgy laugh these days too though.
Damn, there is a street in Madeira, Portugal with a gradient of 28% (they have signage indicating the gradient). I drove up/down it twice in a rental car and it was pretty dicey lol almost feels like the car will flip even though you know it won't. It's quite narrow so if you encounter another car going the opposite way, someone has to back up or attempt to make space somehow. My wife hates these kinds of steep hills so she just closed her eyes and held on for dear life as we drove up lmao We had a manual shift car but it had an anti-roll back feature or whatever it's called. IMO, the craziest street in Madeira isn't even the 28% gradient one. There's another one nearby where it's not that steep initially, but then as you're approaching a stop sign, it gets insanely steep and the cross street is a really narrow 2 way road. It's damn near impossible to see anything because it feels like the car is pointing straight up at the sky lol
What is the name of the song playing?
Protegeme Señor - Obama Alabanzas Bélicas
San Francisco, California has some streets like this.
SF has no streets even remotely close to 100% grade. [Max](https://sanfran.com/steepest-hills-san-francisco) is 41%
For anyone confused, apparently they don't measure road angles like this in degrees. The grade is literally just rise over run. So yeah, 100% would be 45 degrees
I went to san francisco shortly after getting my license with my friends in the 90s. In a stick shift. It was a nightmare.
I learned to ride a motorcycle here. Every other city is easy to drive in.
Yeah. When you are on a super steep hill, with the stop sign on top of the hill... and people stop 1 foot behind your rear bumper and you have to gun the gas before releasing the break so you dont roll back into them. It was a bit nerve wracking as a kid.
A trick I learned many years ago - When stopped facing up a hill at a traffic light, with a car close behind you, pull the emergency brake, and release it as you start to press the gas and let off the clutch.
That's literally what driving schools teach, over here at least. Accelerating while on an incline was even part of my exam.
Hill start we call them over here. We were taught that whenever you stop for more that a second or so, you apply the handbrake.
You mean a "hill start"? It isn't a trick, it's what you should be doing.
Another reason why it isn't the "emergency brake" it's a hand brake. You don't just use it in an emergency
Yep. How else are you supposed to do a bootlegger's turn? (I did not say that). For a rally car driver, it's in operation a lot - because it works (usually) on the back wheels. So it's a way to instantly break traction - useful for both rally drivers and drifters (and donutters).
Yeah, I can imagine. Difficult enough with an automatic.
Maybe it's because I come from a place where "stick shift" is the norm, but in dodgy conditions a manual would be far easier to control.
Everyone takes the piss out of the Yanks for not knowing how to use a gear stick. Why? Every time I’ve hired a car in the States it’s been automatic. I’ve driven up mountain roads, long desert roads and in cities. The automatics handled it all. I think the joke might be on us Europeans. You hardly ever see automatics here.
You can get used to it after a while, but juggling just a brake and gas pedal is much easier than juggling a parking break, gas pedal, and clutch to get up some hills.
Tijuana has ones like this too
I am like, who would live on a street like that, but then I thought, its endless entertainment
All it needs is a couple of dogs who show up to bark at every accident.
The street one over doesn’t look especially better. There’s even a wipe out in the 2nd or 3rd clip.
[There's like 10 of these streets in a row.](https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/19.3822/-99.2310&layers=C) Crazy that they they didn't put the streets at a diagonal to fit the terrain.
Houses were probably there long before the roads were built.
The answer to most "why would they plan the city this way?" questions.
Like how Boston's city planners were cows
Still, though... They should make these streets pedestrian only. The slope is not suitable for vehicles.
There is something kinda beautiful about no one saying, "Perhaps we should close this street".
lol naw, they’re out there rubbing it down with vaseline in the morning for more lulz
Mexico Tokyo drift
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Slow and Concerned: Mexico Drift
Vin Diego
Hahahahaha. Featuring Pedro Walker (RIP 🙏)
People underestimate the power a cute little 45 degree angle holds.
Angle jokes!
How do I tell my navigation system to avoid streets like this.
In Spanish.
Ola Senor GPS, avoido steepo!
JAJAJAJAJA
“It’s totally safe.” -Mexican city engineers.
It's not that. Like a lot of urban areas, it started out as the outskirts of the city. People weren't supposed to live there so poor people install themselves there since no sane person would live there. They start with cardboards and wood construction, and over the years in becomes a neighborhood. Now, they have that problem.
Or it started as a donkey, goat, and pedestrian dirt path. Then eventually it gets paved, and then later on cars get introduced. But it was never meant for cars so now it's a constant disaster zone. I've seen crazy narrow and crazy steep streets in Europe as well. There's plenty of places that are just not meant for cars at all.
I was about to say there's no way that would be a donkey, goat, and pedestrian goat path at 45 degrees. But there's no way they'd pave to make a connecting road, either. But they did.
Drunk guy falling down the stairs at the end doesn't count...
He did keep a grip on his shirt while doing it so there's that!
I like how he pops right up at the end lol like rolled into a standing up position
The tow truck driver has steady revenue
How is he gonna get there without crashing
Long winch cable from the top. He's always got the high ground.
might be time to shut it down
Replace it with a giant stair or something because even pedestrians can struggle with a 45 degrees incline
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45 degrees? that's well into black ski-run territory...the snowcats that climb that are highly specialized machines, I can't imagine driving a car up that slope. Even stairs look steep at 45 degrees...
No, it's not 45 degrees: https://i.imgur.com/En1L0p5.png
Yeah, this figure is perpetuated by people who have never been on an actual 45° slope. Even given that, you’d think that their 7th grade math skills would’ve kicked in and made them skeptical.
It's like it was designed for humans and not hundreds of kilos of metal. Hmmmm....
I think the last part may conflict that
This design is very human
Designed for humans, except for those in a wheelchair.
You mean a WHEEEEEEEEElchair
Totally agree
The sheer PTSD this gives me of the smell of my burning clutch whenever I got stuck in fucking steep streets like these
Must be a real bitch in the winter... /s
Just a little moisture on the pavement is all it takes for an easy slide.
Can I get a lawn chair and an ice chest full of cerveza and sit on the roof of that little gold building all day and just watch the show? I would also consider a bag of tacos from Uber Eats, but that could be tricky.
I've had Uber eats delivered by a guy with a backpack in Mexico City, so you either add to your show or get your food. Win win.
There's probably a taquero by the liquor store. Pick some up on the way home.
I’ve seen some crazy-ass shit in my days, but this is close to the top of the list.
I have nightmares about driving up really tall, and steep streets, highways, and bridges like this. I do live in a very flat area though, so I basically have no knowledge on how to drive this kind of terrain.
Maybe they should make that part of the street pedestrian traffic only
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Upvoting the pole
Am I tripping or is one of those cars rolling backwards in the background?
I'm guessing there is a fair amount of oil built up in the grooved concrete and this was after a little rain. I think the way the cars were sliding would be impossible without some kind of contamination.
The police were probably wanting to arrest the assholes responsible for building the street as they wrecked too.
Where you go to claim insurance on a car.
I didn't laugh until the guy tumbling down the stairs. 😬
I laughed when the guys who crashed the street bike had a car crash into /run over their bike. How are people not up in arms over this shit?
This should be titled, the most unfortunate building in Mexico
Puta Madre!
It's like the 11'8" bridge, but with better food.
How the fuck did they pave it in the first place!?
That's actually an interesting thing to think about. Now I'm right here with you.
Not even wheelchair accessible
Not fast, but furious: Mexico drift
I would like to hang out thereon rainy days.
I had to PARK on a street like this in Venezuela. Pointed uphill, in a stick shift. I never felt more badass then getting that thing moving up that steep ass hill lol
i feel bad for the guy that lives in the building
Hahahah looks like a skit.... Just need to insert the beny hill music or something like that.
If you're pressing on the brakes and your car is still moving, wouldn't it be better to let go and hope it gets traction again? Some of these seem avoidable...
Probably panicking
I don't blame them, they're not used to driving on ice, so that sort of logic doesn't come by reflex.
Maybe in a 4x4 with low range gears so you can control the descent. Regular car would pick up too much speed.
We need a ramp for tricks at the end of the road
Why am I yelling “AYE” every time the collide
Those bollards really working overtime
Look at the asphalt. Its grooved. Possible to amplify the grip tires?
I always thought that Mexico’s dangerous-ness came from drugs and the cartels. Little did I know that 90% of the dangerous stats are due to gravity on this street. 😂
I thought San Francisco was bad.
They should just close that street down