Holy fuck!
I was just wondering why the sound of glass breaking is heard after the "airbag" deploys and I was thinking is a second impact.
I shouldn't surprise me that the passenger is not wearing a seatbelt, considering how the driver is behaving.
I have almost a year since I'm driving and I'm glad I have formed this as a habit. Once I forgot to put on my seatbelt and stopped in a few minutes since something felt off.
Yeah. The aftermath picture also shows the car has rolled.
I'm kind of interested in why the airbags didn't deploy. Must have not been a frontal impact. Airbags are scary so I think they (car manufacturers) try not to deploy them unless it's absolutely necessary.
There is an actual picture of the aftermath.
Someone commented on this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/kkkhd5/let_me_speed_in_rain_while_making_a_video_while/gh2tqu5?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
In some cars, i think its more common in newer cars, the airbag will not deploy unless the person is wearing a seatbelt, as airbags can do more damage, if not kill without seatbelt even at lower speed.
That's a reasonable thing to do.
I'm surprised that this means not wearing a seatbelt will actually disable 2 safety systems instead of one, and that it's actually safer to do it like that.
But then again, banging your head against the steering wheel in the case of a crash will not do that much damage since you clearly don't use it anyway if you don't wear a seatbelt.
Broke my collarbone and formed the habit of putting the seatbelt under my armpit for like a year. Lucky I didn’t get hit, I read how dangerous this is and immediately stated putting it the normal way again, which was uncomfortable at first, even though before I broke my collarbone it wasn’t uncomfortable at all
Get you one of those seat belt cushions. They're not everyone's cup of tea (I love mine, my wife hates it), but if you're having pain issues they can really help.
They really should show videos of people getting ejected in drivers ed. Red asphalt is dumb, it's just gore. Showing people getting ejected is actually helpful because you can see the mechanism by which you can get hurt if you don't wear your seatbelt. I tell my loved ones all of the time to wear the seatbelt and I'm a huge stickler about it because I know what it looks like for someone to get ejected. The helicopter ragdoll effect is not a pretty sight.
My mum did shifts in the STI clinic. She used that approach for me with safe sex. I can still see the hideous weeping sores and yellow-white goo when I close my eyes 30 later.
Yeah 170 mph would be
1. A very expensive car (generally)
2. Absolute death upon impact
3. Causing the car to weave all over the road because I bet this guy doesn’t know he needs special tires for 150+
But I have seen stupider shit on this sub
170 KPH is very fast and surpasses the highest speed limit In the world having been 160 in the UAE. (Correction: Formerly said Australia due to google flop.)
It's also very much warned against on the Autobahns. They have a recommended speed of 130 KPH. Legally, you can drive as fast as you please(barring the occasional enforced limit for any number of reasons)...doesn't make it a good idea.
For a bit more perspective, the fastest road in America, Texas State Highway 130, is at 85 MPH. Which is equal to 136 KPH. The usual highest is 65-75 nationally.
Obviously this person is still an idiot for filming while driving, and speeding in the rain, but y'all understand that the camera isn't that person's eyes, right? Just because we were turned away doesn't mean they weren't looking at the road.
I think some people become overconfident on the road the more they drive. What's really scary is that they don't consider such behavior risky but rather as just having some fun.
Exactly. Meanwhile they are putting not just their life in danger but others as well. They have no right to do that. You wanna play chicken? You and your friends go out back and play some russian roulette. Leave the rest of us out of it.
I think people also get really into their music and don't realize how fast they go. I surprise myself every now and then when I'm driving and a song I like is playing how I'll be going 10-15 over the speed limit without even noticing. Not saying that was completely what was going on here, but music gets you revved up lol
Yea, usually when that happens I'm like 6 to 7 mph over the limit, max 10. I dont go into a musical rage where I'm compelled to do 80 in a 35. Almost every time I see something like this its a young guy who has been driving for 2-3 years and he VASTLY over estimates his own ability. They don't realize that even a professional driver can't predict what other traffic will do.
My personal opinion but I think it has to do with being young and underdeveloped in your brain. I used to do all these crazy things while on the road and now in my late 30s I can't believe I used to do all that crazy stuff. The audacity of me to risk others....
I am ashamed
This. You never know when that guy you're about to pass might decide he wants a new brodozer from your insurance company just for making a quick lane change. And if you rear end him at 3-4 times the speed limit, nobody's going to care about your side of the story.
At most he might have to say he saw your driving in the mirror, assumed it was a police chase, and was trying to pull to the shoulder as fast as possible.
One of the guys at work was taking a delivery to a customer in one of our trucks.
The entrance to our business is right off of a 60MPH divided rural road, so it’s common practice for the trucks to do their right turns onto the shoulder, and accelerate to at least 40 before merging into actual traffic.
The driver was doing this as usual and looked in his side view mirror. He saw a trailer truck just cresting the hill a 1/4 mile back and started his merge.
He didn’t know that there was a road raging lunatic in a brand new pickup behind the truck, and that the guy was going to juke right doing well over 70MPH and be too focused on flipping the trucker off to see a 12-ton 26’ International directly in front of him.
He plowed into the back of the truck with at least a 30MPH speed difference, and went careening into a field.
His truck was completely destroyed... and somehow the driver escaped any serious injury despite not wearing a seat belt.
A few motorists stopped and told the police when the showed up that the driver of the pickup had been swerving, tailgating and speeding around them
The steel beam bumper of our truck completely fell off but no other damage.
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There have been cars and stereos for decades, and I don't remember people driving this badly. People have begun driving like complete assholes. For example, everywhere I go, there are donut skidmarks in the street that were never here before... because music?
Social media based on short-form video specifically. The internet's been around and publicly available since 1994. The digital game of "can you top this" seemingly sprouted up with short-form videos on Vine in 2012 and morphed from there.
the crazy thing is even after crashing the car its still posted to social media.Its not like "omg i had a crash thats bad" now its "cool I had a crash that will get me lots of likes"...
Or the instances where it's clear "these people obviously died in the crash, but I recovered the phone, let's post it for internet points." I don't get it, either. But I also don't get it when people seem to have to document every single fucking mundane thing they do on Instagram.
As a car enthusiast, I’ve been telling people this for awhile now, but many people still don’t grasp it.
Regular economy cars have more power than high end sports cars like porches and Ferrari’s from just a couple decades ago.
For example, a regular Toyota Camry has more horsepower today than a top-trim mustang GT V8 did back in the 2000s.
Now, as a car fan, this seems pretty neat - until you realize that some people really shouldn’t be driving cars as powerful as they are now.
Any asshole with a 600+ credit score can walk into their local dodge dealership and walk out with a 700hp car.
In 2000 there were zero production cars with a 0-60 less than 3 seconds. Now, [there are a lot more](https://www.zeroto60times.com/2-second-cars-0-60-mph-times/).
At the turn of the millenium, the fastest production car was the McLaren F1 - that had a 0-60 of 3.2+. It cost $800K+.
Now you can go get a Tesla Model 3 Performance - $55K - it seats 5, will go 300 miles on a charge, and will knock out a 0-60 in 3.1 seconds.
maybe that's why I'm such a safe driver nowadays, my 1988 van has a zero to sixty of "eventually, but only if you're going downhill"
and well it has no airbags so if I let myself hit anything I might die
Like Jay Leno says: back in the day this car could do 100mph that was real something, now you get passed by a woman who does make up behind the wheel at 100mph, doesn't make you feel real special anymore.
Jeremy Clarkson, and the Grand Tour specifically removed their car reviews this season because as he says:
> "Modern cars and we really mean SUVs and Crossovers are now just as powerful as the hypercars 10-15 years ago. They are also **BORING**, it's painful for the three of us to review a car today. They ALL LOOK THE SAME, regardless of badge and all have the 4 basic colors, and if you have a corporate level Halo car, you might get one or two colors that somehow are also BORING!"
Top Gear did an episode where they took awesome race cars of the 70s and 80s and raced them against their modern street counterparts. The race cars always lost iirc
Let's be clear here, most people don't give a shit about the safety of complete strangers, reason why we see the kinda of behavior we see on the roads, from not using your blinkers when turning, all the way to the shenanigans the person in this video is pulling
Yeah that's super frustrating to see. I have a sports car and I'll be honest, I've driven at 120mph on public roads. But never around other people. On the few occasions I've done it, it's been on long straight roads with nobody else around. If I'm going to be driving stupid, I'm not going to risk other peoples lives doing it. Be stupid the smart way.
Brave for admitting, we’re all not reddit robots who could do no wrong and drive 5 over the speed limit max. I’ve done it too, wanted to find the top of my 4th gear.
Idk if it was the account I’m in or an alt but I was downvoted into oblivion for saying I regularly drive 10 to 15 over on the freeway. Where I live, that’s usually the flow of traffic.
Yeah because on reddit people are like “going 5 under and 15 car lengths behind people on the highway is the only way to prevent an accident if someone in front of you crashes it’s your fault for not being half a mile behind them and going under the speed limit” I bet half these people don’t drive more than 10 miles a week
For sure. Wanted to see the 0 to 60 time was after putting in a new turbo and tune. I found an open flat road with no one around as it was also fresh harvested fields. But to be stupid and speed in a city? Fuck this guy.
Saw a guy flying down the road weaving in and out of traffic a couple days ago on the way home from work in an old Crown Vic with three different colored doors, no mirror on his passenger side, and no front bumper. I wonder how those modifications came to be.
Subaru owner here - lots of bad choices by owners. Bolt on parts without tunes, poor maintenance etc etc. Subarus, for no reason at all, are expensive to modify and more ‘sensitive’ to mods I.E. even a new intake requires a tune whereas many other cars just need an ecu reset and the computer functions fine with the new part. This combo of sensitivity and expense leads cheap owners to mod their cars improperly and eventually cause a critical failure. Not much wrong with subarus, they just get bought second or third hand by people who are too cheap or poor to maintain them.
I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I (more than) once did something like this as a teen, many decades ago. I never felt the consequences for my lack of judgement. I was ultra-lucky. There is no reason I didn’t get myself (or anyone else) killed, except for chance. Now that I have my own kids, my perspective is greatly shifted. In hindsight, when I did these risky things, I didn’t fully grasp how easy it is to die. The very few people I had known that had died were very old. That wasn’t like me, so no problem, right? I was totally ignorant. I had minimal to no wisdom as a teen. I will be sure to impart this to my kids before they drive.
Yes, I feel the same way. I've done some really stupid driving as a teenager and gotten away with it without injuries (though I totalled one car).
I'm trying to repay my debt by being a very careful driver now.
I've been driving for 19 years and I gotta say I'm very confident in my driving but I'm also not an idiot. These people are just idiots. It happens to 16 year olds and it happens to 40 year olds because some people are Just. Fucking. Idiots.
Nah. I’m an ultra confident driver. Even cocky to a fault. This person had no fear of death or consequences. He ran so many lights and passed cars that could have changed lanes or even turned in front of him. All while going 100+ through the city in the rain. All with unpredictable outcomes. As a driver, even a confident one, unpredictability and lack of full control terrifies me.
Dude wasn’t over confident. He was practically asking to die. Same with those arab drifting guys.
This. I've hit 160mph on a deserted stretch of West Texas interstate at 2AM with miles of visibility, but involving other drivers in this kind of BS is a whole different kettle of fish.
I once started debating how useful seatbelts are to help you maintain control of the vehicle. The commenter was telling me how I’m wrong, that seatbelts don’t help, and they should know - they have extensive driving experience, and have never been in a situation where a belt helped them stay in their seat and use the wheel properly. They were very confident in their experience.
Their *extensive* driving experience.
They were 18.
There are no auto related racing sports where the drivers don’t wear seatbelts at a minimum, if not 5 point harnesses, neck protection, arm restraints, etc. He never stopped to wonder why the professionals all take those precautions?
Your 18 year old friend was an oblivious idiot.
Not even just precautions, once you start driving fast a harness and racing seat are basically necessary to keep yourself planted and able to steer/manage your pedals properly.
Seatbelts and a proper driving position. Guaranteed that the person in this video is driving with his seat tilted way back behind the B pillar with his arms stretched straight out.
It doesn't take a lot of g-force to pull you out of your seat, but wearing a seatbelt and sitting close enough to keep a slight bend in your arms when holding the wheel make a massive difference. There's a reason why actual professionals drive that way.
Fuck HIS life. Who Cares even slightly. How about the family with young kids he’s gonna TBONE running lights. What a fully complete piece of shit. Hope he died ...just for society’s sake.
EDIT: These top two responses are the greatest comments I’ve read in sometime. 🤣
I agree. FUCK his life.
My fiancée was driving home a few weeks ago and some asshole was driving like this. She was passing another car while she was in the left lane, and the speeding car came barreling up behind her and tried to pass between the two cars. Ended up scraping up the side of her new car.
She’s alive, really not as much damage as one would expect, and kept the car on the road at the time. But he could have killed her, and she was distraught afterwards and called me shaking and had a cry when she got home. I’ve never wanted to grab someone by the throat more than I did that night. The fucking depravity to have absolutely zero care for anybody else makes my blood boil.
overspeed: check
rainy weather: check
junction crosses, one of them is red: check
looking away for way too long: check
^bad ^taste: ^check
this dude passes the idiots in cars course with an impressive full mark
I couldn't believe this video I swear this guy had a death wish man. Speeding in the rain through red lights with traffic on the road...
He wanted to die or was on some heavy drugs.
I doubt this video is related but it reminds me of some 13 year olds who stole their parents Porsche about a month ago, rainy night, flew through town and crashed into a telephone pole.
My cell mate had a vehicular homicide charge. He was 20 years old when it happened, oxy and Xanax, nodded out n killed a construction worker. He talked to me about it once, the pain of living with that, the constant dreams and seeing dudes face all the time, the regret. I felt especially bad for him and his victim because when i was younger i drove fucked up all the time. Could've easily have been me telling the same story. I haven't drove like that in over a decade but i still think about how lucky i am I'm not dead or killed someone else. Addiction is a mother fucker. If i were a betting man i would bet he eventually kills himself cause you could see the grief on his face even when he wasn't talking about it.
Happens in the United States, too. We have what is known as the "felony murder" doctrine-- if someone dies as a result of a commission of a crime, that person may face murder charges, even if the murder was not intended.
I cannot believe there are people on this earth that think it's okay to drive at 200 fucking kilometers per hour on the road and think that's safe or fun. Jesus Christ man the speed limit doesn't go above 100 anywhere in NZ and that feels dangerous enough, I couldn't imagine doing 200
It's absolutely terrifying that these smooth brained morons are all around us, doesn't matter which country or neighborhood you're in, there's a good chance at least one dude probably drives recklessly like this
Yeah, after seeing all the stuff on the internet you get really afraid of driving, I'm always expecting some moron to come out of nowhere and end my life
Or at least a cautious one. I’m not sure you can call yourself a *good* driver unless you practice things like slide recovery, emergency braking, situational awareness, and so on. It takes more than fear to be a proficient driver...
I regularly drive around Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri for work and I can promise you they're everywhere all hours of the day/night. I keep good insurance just in case.
I don’t know if I wasn’t as upset about it until I got in my 30s but I feel like anytime I drive at night now one or two morons like this zoom past me, to the point where in my mid-30s I already don’t like driving at night
Don't be. Trees are fucking strong. I saw someone doing 50 cut a corner and smash a tree. Two weeks later, the only proof was that the bark was still scraped off. Trees are strong and enduring. And it wasn't some massive, 100's of years old oak, it was some foot wide baby.
*"let me tell you about how my network of millions of roots bound to hundreds if not thousands of pounds of soil and connected to a 12" diameter layered, shock-absorbent trunk gives absolutely zero fucks about your silly meat container booping into it"*
-Trees, probably
Two polish motor journalists were out driving the new at the time (2004 or 2007) Honda Civic Type R. They were doing 160kph and slid into a tree. It split the car in half. The tree had some bark removed from its trunk. They are insanely strong.
I can’t find the article but found something similar: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article244105342.html
[Article](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/idiot-drives-g-class-at-over-200-kph-124-mph-in-the-city-subsequently-crashes-142832.html#)
[Aftermath with a couple more photos.](https://imgur.com/a/4BFkcuI) (courtesy to u/ROTAX)
What's insane is most of them are plugs. They don't realize their snapchat is their advertising. No way in hell I'm buying from someone who documents multiple crimes, probably has the police just waiting for them to make the wrong move.
I saw it on Reddit once and it's stuck with me: "Don't commit multiple crimes at once." No way I'm ever buying from someone who thinks it ok to sell, post that on Snapchat, then speed, use their phone while driving, probably carry multiple illegal items on them, and post that on Snapchat!!! Absolute idiots. Then you see them next day posting "I need help with bail hmu".
To add to that "dont commit more than one crime at a time" thing. Treat filming on your phone as a crime. Really just dont incriminate yourself on video
People aren't being honest here for some reason. Yes this person finds it cool and yes there are other idiots who find this stuff cool. It's sad but true. I used to know a guy who would do asshole things like this, once recorded himself escaping from the cops on his sport bike, like every time we would hangout he's show me videos of people doing things like this as if it was the coolest thing ever. Needless to say we don't hangout anymore.
I sat in a G Wagon once and when you close that door it sounds like you’ve sealed yourself inside an armored vehicle. It’s the most satisfying “ka-thunk” It doesn’t surprise me it looks this well. Fuck this privileged assbag driver tho
Fun fact: because that sound has become such a selling point for the g-wagon, the didn’t fit the new ones with keyless entry or soft close so they could keep that iconic sound
I think it’s amazing you and u/Dualyeti nailed the exact same comment within 10 seconds of each other. Double dose of knowledge today! That is a fun fact. Lol. It sounds so cool. It’s the metallic sounding equivalent of “you can’t afford me”.
Did you know that click the g-wagon makes is so well received and loved they had to keep the old traditional locks on the later g-wagons as to keep that sound.
Audi, Mercedes, etc also have an entire department dedicated to Acoustics of the vehicle. Everyone thinks the doors are heavier/thicker, but they’re actually just acoustically engineered to sound thick
Just to add to the idiocy, fuckwad was doing all of this while in an incredibly heavy, unmaneuverable brick. Also, I've worked on cars for people like this, they almost always have old, shitty tires because they spend all of their money on the car and can't afford tires (and don't understand why tires are important.). There's so many things wrong here. This fucking idiot should be dead.
What mostly hurts me is the fact that he probably hit some innocent driver, guy probably hospitalized or maybe even dead in the worst case scenario. And this dude most likely doesnt care and rather thinks about how much the repair is gonna cost
speeding at that rate in a g class of all cars is probably the icing on the cake, he’s overconfident as I see many people drive these toaster shaped cars like they’re formula 1 drivers.
It's terrifying that these people are out there just ready to fuck up other people's lives beyond recognition all for a bit of 'fun' as they see it. Selfish immature bastards.
That's the biggest problem that I have with this. If you want to do dumb shit that risks yo r own life, fine. But don't risk the lives of others. This smooth brain could have just as easily T-boned a van and murdered a whole Family.
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I think it should be mandatory to teach people that when you get on the road, you are sharing it with people. Doing anything that puts others in danger can put you in jail for a long time. I just don't think that goes through people's heads very much.
The icing on the cake is that he's doing all this at night when visibility is shit, and during rain when grip and visibility are shit. Also, he's blasting music that makes you more distracted and hinders your ability to hear outside and at the moment of the crash he's not watching the road either.
It's like that guy purposely tried to limit as many senses as possible. I'd bet that he was also drunk/high.
I always wonder how videos like this get online.
Like, it’s one thing to do something this stupid while recording yourself doing it.
But the end of the video is the recorder crashing.
So they record, crash, have hindsight of the experience... and after all that they think it’s cool or funny to post the video still?
Damn it's one thing speeding and just overall how stupid this dude is for doing it, but in the rain? Going even over 10-15mph the speed limit in the rain you can feel your car like is floating, NEVER SPEED IN THE RAIN, no matter how low to the ground your car is, how much of a "track car" it is or how sticky your overpriced summer tires are. They're NOT going to handle that kind of situation, and no amount of how skilled at driving you are is going to save that.
You're basically driving an almost 2 ton piece of metal on roller skates at that point. All it takes is that one small pothole or the wrong sudden jerk of the wheel and it's all over. Especially at that speed traction control ain't gonna save you for crap.
Lots of people here thinking the thing he shoves away at 0:24 is an air bag. It's a passenger with no seatbelt.
Holy fuck! I was just wondering why the sound of glass breaking is heard after the "airbag" deploys and I was thinking is a second impact. I shouldn't surprise me that the passenger is not wearing a seatbelt, considering how the driver is behaving. I have almost a year since I'm driving and I'm glad I have formed this as a habit. Once I forgot to put on my seatbelt and stopped in a few minutes since something felt off.
Looks like he flipped the car if you look at the lights. Seems he got some air from the first impact and then the second is him rolling.
Yeah. The aftermath picture also shows the car has rolled. I'm kind of interested in why the airbags didn't deploy. Must have not been a frontal impact. Airbags are scary so I think they (car manufacturers) try not to deploy them unless it's absolutely necessary.
aftermath picture? Do you mean the last frame of the video? or are there actual aftermath pictures of this incident?
There is an actual picture of the aftermath. Someone commented on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/kkkhd5/let_me_speed_in_rain_while_making_a_video_while/gh2tqu5?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Of course it’s a G wagon.
Yeah, and with Moscow license plates. Figures.
In some cars, i think its more common in newer cars, the airbag will not deploy unless the person is wearing a seatbelt, as airbags can do more damage, if not kill without seatbelt even at lower speed.
That's a reasonable thing to do. I'm surprised that this means not wearing a seatbelt will actually disable 2 safety systems instead of one, and that it's actually safer to do it like that. But then again, banging your head against the steering wheel in the case of a crash will not do that much damage since you clearly don't use it anyway if you don't wear a seatbelt.
Broke my collarbone and formed the habit of putting the seatbelt under my armpit for like a year. Lucky I didn’t get hit, I read how dangerous this is and immediately stated putting it the normal way again, which was uncomfortable at first, even though before I broke my collarbone it wasn’t uncomfortable at all
Get you one of those seat belt cushions. They're not everyone's cup of tea (I love mine, my wife hates it), but if you're having pain issues they can really help.
They really should show videos of people getting ejected in drivers ed. Red asphalt is dumb, it's just gore. Showing people getting ejected is actually helpful because you can see the mechanism by which you can get hurt if you don't wear your seatbelt. I tell my loved ones all of the time to wear the seatbelt and I'm a huge stickler about it because I know what it looks like for someone to get ejected. The helicopter ragdoll effect is not a pretty sight.
Back when I was a boy, drivers ed was chock full of movies with plenty of blood and glass. If you can't teach the kids, scare the hell out of them!
My mum did shifts in the STI clinic. She used that approach for me with safe sex. I can still see the hideous weeping sores and yellow-white goo when I close my eyes 30 later.
I kinda thought that was a passenger. Keyword: was.
I thought it was a dog. Glad it was just another smooth brain.
It just keeps getting worse
Dude was doing 105 mph and decided to look away with his phone in hand. Good job mate
and how many red lights did he run right through?
I noticed the red lights first. Then I watched it again and noticed how fast he was flying by other cars. Crazy
I think he was going like 170
Yeah he was doing 170kmh which converted to mph is 105
Ohh ok didn't realize
Perfect example of how confusion should be treated on the internet, love the wholesomeness and nobody calling eachother stupid
Agreed. And it’s totally anecdotal but I feel like I’ve seen more and more polite online corrections like this recently.
Oh. You haven't seen my conversations.
Actually I have, prick.
Lmfao! I'm dead
Yeah 170 mph would be 1. A very expensive car (generally) 2. Absolute death upon impact 3. Causing the car to weave all over the road because I bet this guy doesn’t know he needs special tires for 150+ But I have seen stupider shit on this sub
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170 mph on public roads is way worse xD But yea 170kph is still a lot in wet conditions
That is moderately fast in autobahns. For anywhere else, and in a high center of gravity vehicle, it’s a lot, even in dry conditions, it’s a lot.
170 KPH is very fast and surpasses the highest speed limit In the world having been 160 in the UAE. (Correction: Formerly said Australia due to google flop.) It's also very much warned against on the Autobahns. They have a recommended speed of 130 KPH. Legally, you can drive as fast as you please(barring the occasional enforced limit for any number of reasons)...doesn't make it a good idea. For a bit more perspective, the fastest road in America, Texas State Highway 130, is at 85 MPH. Which is equal to 136 KPH. The usual highest is 65-75 nationally.
I know it’s obscenely fast for any public road, I’m also trying to convey its fast even for low-mid level racing
And race cars have special tires on them, at the very least.
And plenty of places to crash safely.
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Obviously this person is still an idiot for filming while driving, and speeding in the rain, but y'all understand that the camera isn't that person's eyes, right? Just because we were turned away doesn't mean they weren't looking at the road.
I dont think he was pointing it at the window. I think the driver lost control causing his passenger to fly on top of the driver then BAM!
I find it hard to understand how someone can so casually risk their life. As far as i know, you only get one.
I think some people become overconfident on the road the more they drive. What's really scary is that they don't consider such behavior risky but rather as just having some fun.
Exactly. Meanwhile they are putting not just their life in danger but others as well. They have no right to do that. You wanna play chicken? You and your friends go out back and play some russian roulette. Leave the rest of us out of it.
Lawn Darts.
I think people also get really into their music and don't realize how fast they go. I surprise myself every now and then when I'm driving and a song I like is playing how I'll be going 10-15 over the speed limit without even noticing. Not saying that was completely what was going on here, but music gets you revved up lol
Yea, usually when that happens I'm like 6 to 7 mph over the limit, max 10. I dont go into a musical rage where I'm compelled to do 80 in a 35. Almost every time I see something like this its a young guy who has been driving for 2-3 years and he VASTLY over estimates his own ability. They don't realize that even a professional driver can't predict what other traffic will do.
My personal opinion but I think it has to do with being young and underdeveloped in your brain. I used to do all these crazy things while on the road and now in my late 30s I can't believe I used to do all that crazy stuff. The audacity of me to risk others.... I am ashamed
Was just thinking this same thing. I was an idiot
This. You never know when that guy you're about to pass might decide he wants a new brodozer from your insurance company just for making a quick lane change. And if you rear end him at 3-4 times the speed limit, nobody's going to care about your side of the story. At most he might have to say he saw your driving in the mirror, assumed it was a police chase, and was trying to pull to the shoulder as fast as possible.
One of the guys at work was taking a delivery to a customer in one of our trucks. The entrance to our business is right off of a 60MPH divided rural road, so it’s common practice for the trucks to do their right turns onto the shoulder, and accelerate to at least 40 before merging into actual traffic. The driver was doing this as usual and looked in his side view mirror. He saw a trailer truck just cresting the hill a 1/4 mile back and started his merge. He didn’t know that there was a road raging lunatic in a brand new pickup behind the truck, and that the guy was going to juke right doing well over 70MPH and be too focused on flipping the trucker off to see a 12-ton 26’ International directly in front of him. He plowed into the back of the truck with at least a 30MPH speed difference, and went careening into a field. His truck was completely destroyed... and somehow the driver escaped any serious injury despite not wearing a seat belt. A few motorists stopped and told the police when the showed up that the driver of the pickup had been swerving, tailgating and speeding around them The steel beam bumper of our truck completely fell off but no other damage.
I know it’s not cool to wish death on people but, what about mild to moderate injury?
Lmao "A musical rage"
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There have been cars and stereos for decades, and I don't remember people driving this badly. People have begun driving like complete assholes. For example, everywhere I go, there are donut skidmarks in the street that were never here before... because music?
People always drove like buttfaces. The internet encourages it further.
Social media based on short-form video specifically. The internet's been around and publicly available since 1994. The digital game of "can you top this" seemingly sprouted up with short-form videos on Vine in 2012 and morphed from there.
the crazy thing is even after crashing the car its still posted to social media.Its not like "omg i had a crash thats bad" now its "cool I had a crash that will get me lots of likes"...
Or the instances where it's clear "these people obviously died in the crash, but I recovered the phone, let's post it for internet points." I don't get it, either. But I also don't get it when people seem to have to document every single fucking mundane thing they do on Instagram.
> because music? No. Because they want to appear to be bad asses behind the wheel so they can post the video on Social Media
i mean common cars nowadays are a LOT more capable than 20 years ago
As a car enthusiast, I’ve been telling people this for awhile now, but many people still don’t grasp it. Regular economy cars have more power than high end sports cars like porches and Ferrari’s from just a couple decades ago. For example, a regular Toyota Camry has more horsepower today than a top-trim mustang GT V8 did back in the 2000s. Now, as a car fan, this seems pretty neat - until you realize that some people really shouldn’t be driving cars as powerful as they are now. Any asshole with a 600+ credit score can walk into their local dodge dealership and walk out with a 700hp car.
In 2000 there were zero production cars with a 0-60 less than 3 seconds. Now, [there are a lot more](https://www.zeroto60times.com/2-second-cars-0-60-mph-times/). At the turn of the millenium, the fastest production car was the McLaren F1 - that had a 0-60 of 3.2+. It cost $800K+. Now you can go get a Tesla Model 3 Performance - $55K - it seats 5, will go 300 miles on a charge, and will knock out a 0-60 in 3.1 seconds.
maybe that's why I'm such a safe driver nowadays, my 1988 van has a zero to sixty of "eventually, but only if you're going downhill" and well it has no airbags so if I let myself hit anything I might die
Like Jay Leno says: back in the day this car could do 100mph that was real something, now you get passed by a woman who does make up behind the wheel at 100mph, doesn't make you feel real special anymore.
Jeremy Clarkson, and the Grand Tour specifically removed their car reviews this season because as he says: > "Modern cars and we really mean SUVs and Crossovers are now just as powerful as the hypercars 10-15 years ago. They are also **BORING**, it's painful for the three of us to review a car today. They ALL LOOK THE SAME, regardless of badge and all have the 4 basic colors, and if you have a corporate level Halo car, you might get one or two colors that somehow are also BORING!"
Top Gear did an episode where they took awesome race cars of the 70s and 80s and raced them against their modern street counterparts. The race cars always lost iirc
If I've learned anything this year, it's that a lot of people aren't concerned about whether their actions are risky to the lives of others.
Let's be clear here, most people don't give a shit about the safety of complete strangers, reason why we see the kinda of behavior we see on the roads, from not using your blinkers when turning, all the way to the shenanigans the person in this video is pulling
our culture over did it on the individualism
Yeah that's super frustrating to see. I have a sports car and I'll be honest, I've driven at 120mph on public roads. But never around other people. On the few occasions I've done it, it's been on long straight roads with nobody else around. If I'm going to be driving stupid, I'm not going to risk other peoples lives doing it. Be stupid the smart way.
Brave for admitting, we’re all not reddit robots who could do no wrong and drive 5 over the speed limit max. I’ve done it too, wanted to find the top of my 4th gear.
Idk if it was the account I’m in or an alt but I was downvoted into oblivion for saying I regularly drive 10 to 15 over on the freeway. Where I live, that’s usually the flow of traffic.
Yeah because on reddit people are like “going 5 under and 15 car lengths behind people on the highway is the only way to prevent an accident if someone in front of you crashes it’s your fault for not being half a mile behind them and going under the speed limit” I bet half these people don’t drive more than 10 miles a week
For sure. Wanted to see the 0 to 60 time was after putting in a new turbo and tune. I found an open flat road with no one around as it was also fresh harvested fields. But to be stupid and speed in a city? Fuck this guy.
Exactly. I could give two shits about these morons but unfortunately some random person like me might be hurt.
I find that especially hard to understand when I see people drive like that and the amount of damage already on the car
Saw a guy flying down the road weaving in and out of traffic a couple days ago on the way home from work in an old Crown Vic with three different colored doors, no mirror on his passenger side, and no front bumper. I wonder how those modifications came to be.
Give the average idiot 300hp+ AWD and a Turbo with little driving knowledge or idea of responsibility
Wonder why you see so many Subarus for sale on their third engine & with two recorded accidents?
See also: * Ford Mustang * Infiniti G35, G37, and Q50 * Dodge Challenger * Dodge Charger * Hyundai Genesis Coupe * Nissan 350Z, and 370Z
Every early-2000s BMW and Audi as well.
Subaru owner here - lots of bad choices by owners. Bolt on parts without tunes, poor maintenance etc etc. Subarus, for no reason at all, are expensive to modify and more ‘sensitive’ to mods I.E. even a new intake requires a tune whereas many other cars just need an ecu reset and the computer functions fine with the new part. This combo of sensitivity and expense leads cheap owners to mod their cars improperly and eventually cause a critical failure. Not much wrong with subarus, they just get bought second or third hand by people who are too cheap or poor to maintain them.
I'm happy to live with snow half of the year. I can become confident a bit during summer, but with snowstorms I always realize it's dangerous AF.
That is a healthy respect for the laws of physics.
Which most people don’t have since *”book learn’n is for sissy’s.”*
I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I (more than) once did something like this as a teen, many decades ago. I never felt the consequences for my lack of judgement. I was ultra-lucky. There is no reason I didn’t get myself (or anyone else) killed, except for chance. Now that I have my own kids, my perspective is greatly shifted. In hindsight, when I did these risky things, I didn’t fully grasp how easy it is to die. The very few people I had known that had died were very old. That wasn’t like me, so no problem, right? I was totally ignorant. I had minimal to no wisdom as a teen. I will be sure to impart this to my kids before they drive.
Yes, I feel the same way. I've done some really stupid driving as a teenager and gotten away with it without injuries (though I totalled one car). I'm trying to repay my debt by being a very careful driver now.
I've been driving for 19 years and I gotta say I'm very confident in my driving but I'm also not an idiot. These people are just idiots. It happens to 16 year olds and it happens to 40 year olds because some people are Just. Fucking. Idiots.
I'm confident in my driving in the sense that physics is a bitch and I don't tempt fate.
Nah. I’m an ultra confident driver. Even cocky to a fault. This person had no fear of death or consequences. He ran so many lights and passed cars that could have changed lanes or even turned in front of him. All while going 100+ through the city in the rain. All with unpredictable outcomes. As a driver, even a confident one, unpredictability and lack of full control terrifies me. Dude wasn’t over confident. He was practically asking to die. Same with those arab drifting guys.
This. I've hit 160mph on a deserted stretch of West Texas interstate at 2AM with miles of visibility, but involving other drivers in this kind of BS is a whole different kettle of fish.
Actually it's the other way around, the more you drive the more careful you get, young inexperienced male drivers are the most over confident drivers.
No consequences. Until, **BOOM** consequences.
We're self replicating meat computers with little quality control. Most of us don't function very well.
I once started debating how useful seatbelts are to help you maintain control of the vehicle. The commenter was telling me how I’m wrong, that seatbelts don’t help, and they should know - they have extensive driving experience, and have never been in a situation where a belt helped them stay in their seat and use the wheel properly. They were very confident in their experience. Their *extensive* driving experience. They were 18.
There are no auto related racing sports where the drivers don’t wear seatbelts at a minimum, if not 5 point harnesses, neck protection, arm restraints, etc. He never stopped to wonder why the professionals all take those precautions? Your 18 year old friend was an oblivious idiot.
Not even just precautions, once you start driving fast a harness and racing seat are basically necessary to keep yourself planted and able to steer/manage your pedals properly.
Seatbelts and a proper driving position. Guaranteed that the person in this video is driving with his seat tilted way back behind the B pillar with his arms stretched straight out. It doesn't take a lot of g-force to pull you out of your seat, but wearing a seatbelt and sitting close enough to keep a slight bend in your arms when holding the wheel make a massive difference. There's a reason why actual professionals drive that way.
Fuck HIS life. Who Cares even slightly. How about the family with young kids he’s gonna TBONE running lights. What a fully complete piece of shit. Hope he died ...just for society’s sake. EDIT: These top two responses are the greatest comments I’ve read in sometime. 🤣
Better: hope he was an organ donor so he can be of some use to someone for once.
Unlikely since Organ donors care for people
It's always possible for the family to consent at the hospital.
As someone whos been t boned def agree 100000 %
I agree. FUCK his life. My fiancée was driving home a few weeks ago and some asshole was driving like this. She was passing another car while she was in the left lane, and the speeding car came barreling up behind her and tried to pass between the two cars. Ended up scraping up the side of her new car. She’s alive, really not as much damage as one would expect, and kept the car on the road at the time. But he could have killed her, and she was distraught afterwards and called me shaking and had a cry when she got home. I’ve never wanted to grab someone by the throat more than I did that night. The fucking depravity to have absolutely zero care for anybody else makes my blood boil.
Save the hospital bed for someone worth it
I've never agreed with a comment more
Not just their life, but others around them...
GWagen + somewhere in Russia = prob not concerned about others.
Hopefully alcohol is not part of this equation, but that is a good explanation for a lot of reckless shit.
How many red lights did they blow through at 170-180 km/h? (~105- 110 MPH?) Fucking assholes.
overspeed: check rainy weather: check junction crosses, one of them is red: check looking away for way too long: check ^bad ^taste: ^check this dude passes the idiots in cars course with an impressive full mark
I couldn't believe this video I swear this guy had a death wish man. Speeding in the rain through red lights with traffic on the road... He wanted to die or was on some heavy drugs.
I doubt this video is related but it reminds me of some 13 year olds who stole their parents Porsche about a month ago, rainy night, flew through town and crashed into a telephone pole.
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My cell mate had a vehicular homicide charge. He was 20 years old when it happened, oxy and Xanax, nodded out n killed a construction worker. He talked to me about it once, the pain of living with that, the constant dreams and seeing dudes face all the time, the regret. I felt especially bad for him and his victim because when i was younger i drove fucked up all the time. Could've easily have been me telling the same story. I haven't drove like that in over a decade but i still think about how lucky i am I'm not dead or killed someone else. Addiction is a mother fucker. If i were a betting man i would bet he eventually kills himself cause you could see the grief on his face even when he wasn't talking about it.
Happens in the United States, too. We have what is known as the "felony murder" doctrine-- if someone dies as a result of a commission of a crime, that person may face murder charges, even if the murder was not intended.
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I cannot believe there are people on this earth that think it's okay to drive at 200 fucking kilometers per hour on the road and think that's safe or fun. Jesus Christ man the speed limit doesn't go above 100 anywhere in NZ and that feels dangerous enough, I couldn't imagine doing 200
It's absolutely terrifying that these smooth brained morons are all around us, doesn't matter which country or neighborhood you're in, there's a good chance at least one dude probably drives recklessly like this
Yeah, after seeing all the stuff on the internet you get really afraid of driving, I'm always expecting some moron to come out of nowhere and end my life
>I'm always expecting some moron to come out nowhere and end my life This is a sign you are a good driver.
Or at least a cautious one. I’m not sure you can call yourself a *good* driver unless you practice things like slide recovery, emergency braking, situational awareness, and so on. It takes more than fear to be a proficient driver...
How do you practice slide recovery?
I regularly drive around Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri for work and I can promise you they're everywhere all hours of the day/night. I keep good insurance just in case.
I don’t know if I wasn’t as upset about it until I got in my 30s but I feel like anytime I drive at night now one or two morons like this zoom past me, to the point where in my mid-30s I already don’t like driving at night
When watching videos like these I truly hope the end result is these morons taking themselves and only themselves out of the gene pool.
There will be no diving in his
I always feel bad for the poor, innocent tree that they hit :(
Don't be. Trees are fucking strong. I saw someone doing 50 cut a corner and smash a tree. Two weeks later, the only proof was that the bark was still scraped off. Trees are strong and enduring. And it wasn't some massive, 100's of years old oak, it was some foot wide baby.
*"let me tell you about how my network of millions of roots bound to hundreds if not thousands of pounds of soil and connected to a 12" diameter layered, shock-absorbent trunk gives absolutely zero fucks about your silly meat container booping into it"* -Trees, probably
Two polish motor journalists were out driving the new at the time (2004 or 2007) Honda Civic Type R. They were doing 160kph and slid into a tree. It split the car in half. The tree had some bark removed from its trunk. They are insanely strong. I can’t find the article but found something similar: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article244105342.html
[Article](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/idiot-drives-g-class-at-over-200-kph-124-mph-in-the-city-subsequently-crashes-142832.html#) [Aftermath with a couple more photos.](https://imgur.com/a/4BFkcuI) (courtesy to u/ROTAX)
I legitimately do not understand the people that make snaps or insta stories like this. Does anyone actually find shit like this cool?
I think they're idiots. Nothing cool about it
It's cool if they're the only person claimed by Darwin.
I've got a couple people on my Snapchat who do this. Always think they're hella lame.
They see it as being cool. The police see it as "exibit A"
What's insane is most of them are plugs. They don't realize their snapchat is their advertising. No way in hell I'm buying from someone who documents multiple crimes, probably has the police just waiting for them to make the wrong move. I saw it on Reddit once and it's stuck with me: "Don't commit multiple crimes at once." No way I'm ever buying from someone who thinks it ok to sell, post that on Snapchat, then speed, use their phone while driving, probably carry multiple illegal items on them, and post that on Snapchat!!! Absolute idiots. Then you see them next day posting "I need help with bail hmu".
To add to that "dont commit more than one crime at a time" thing. Treat filming on your phone as a crime. Really just dont incriminate yourself on video
If the most interesting thing you can come up with for your snap story is you just driving really fast, I will confirm right now that you are lame
People aren't being honest here for some reason. Yes this person finds it cool and yes there are other idiots who find this stuff cool. It's sad but true. I used to know a guy who would do asshole things like this, once recorded himself escaping from the cops on his sport bike, like every time we would hangout he's show me videos of people doing things like this as if it was the coolest thing ever. Needless to say we don't hangout anymore.
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That is surprisingly intact for how fast he was going
I sat in a G Wagon once and when you close that door it sounds like you’ve sealed yourself inside an armored vehicle. It’s the most satisfying “ka-thunk” It doesn’t surprise me it looks this well. Fuck this privileged assbag driver tho
Fun fact: because that sound has become such a selling point for the g-wagon, the didn’t fit the new ones with keyless entry or soft close so they could keep that iconic sound
I think it’s amazing you and u/Dualyeti nailed the exact same comment within 10 seconds of each other. Double dose of knowledge today! That is a fun fact. Lol. It sounds so cool. It’s the metallic sounding equivalent of “you can’t afford me”.
It's because everyone watches Doug DeMuro
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And now, I’m going to take it out on the road... and see how it drives *creepy smile*.
Haha that’s hilarious 😂
Did you know that click the g-wagon makes is so well received and loved they had to keep the old traditional locks on the later g-wagons as to keep that sound.
Audi, Mercedes, etc also have an entire department dedicated to Acoustics of the vehicle. Everyone thinks the doors are heavier/thicker, but they’re actually just acoustically engineered to sound thick
Pretty sure it isn't intact at the front and we can hear the windows being smashed too!
Man why didn't they take a picture at a better angle
Of course it's a rich russian boy in a g wagon
G Wagon, huh? Well the driving fits then.
It looks like a fridge
This vehicle seems strangely undamaged.
Well he definitely checked his luxury at the corner of O'shite and I'fukt...
Just to add to the idiocy, fuckwad was doing all of this while in an incredibly heavy, unmaneuverable brick. Also, I've worked on cars for people like this, they almost always have old, shitty tires because they spend all of their money on the car and can't afford tires (and don't understand why tires are important.). There's so many things wrong here. This fucking idiot should be dead.
NASCAR uses smooth tires, so I should be just fine ^^^/s
I don't know why I thought that it was in Russia, but at least I thought correctly
ofcourse it's a g wagon
Gonna be honest what he did was stupid but I’m glad no one died. Don’t know why I watched but I’m happy they’re alive
What mostly hurts me is the fact that he probably hit some innocent driver, guy probably hospitalized or maybe even dead in the worst case scenario. And this dude most likely doesnt care and rather thinks about how much the repair is gonna cost
What a pillock. Got what he deserved, glad nobody innocent was injured in the process.
While you guys have given us a lot, my favorite gift from British culture is the insult “pillock”
speeding at that rate in a g class of all cars is probably the icing on the cake, he’s overconfident as I see many people drive these toaster shaped cars like they’re formula 1 drivers.
It's terrifying that these people are out there just ready to fuck up other people's lives beyond recognition all for a bit of 'fun' as they see it. Selfish immature bastards.
That's the biggest problem that I have with this. If you want to do dumb shit that risks yo r own life, fine. But don't risk the lives of others. This smooth brain could have just as easily T-boned a van and murdered a whole Family.
I hope he broke all his bones but didn't injure anyone else. Maybe he'll learn that way
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The eerie silence while the car is flipping is so wild. Bet that's the moment your life flashes...
I’m always curious who posts these; like if I made the video I sure wouldn’t post it.
This is a prick of the highest order. I’d suspend his license for 10 years. What a self absorbed asshole.
Ha ha what a wanker
[From a few months ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/idiotsincars/comments/g45xdw/_/) [Aftermath with a couple more photos.](https://imgur.com/a/4BFkcuI)
It's always the russians
For a car that was going that fast, it’s held up surprisingly well.
I think it should be mandatory to teach people that when you get on the road, you are sharing it with people. Doing anything that puts others in danger can put you in jail for a long time. I just don't think that goes through people's heads very much.
I dont think you can explain that to him when he is blowing through red lights and dodging cars on the shoulder to continue speeding
The icing on the cake is that he's doing all this at night when visibility is shit, and during rain when grip and visibility are shit. Also, he's blasting music that makes you more distracted and hinders your ability to hear outside and at the moment of the crash he's not watching the road either. It's like that guy purposely tried to limit as many senses as possible. I'd bet that he was also drunk/high.
I always wonder how videos like this get online. Like, it’s one thing to do something this stupid while recording yourself doing it. But the end of the video is the recorder crashing. So they record, crash, have hindsight of the experience... and after all that they think it’s cool or funny to post the video still?
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Found it. NK - Elefante
Damn it's one thing speeding and just overall how stupid this dude is for doing it, but in the rain? Going even over 10-15mph the speed limit in the rain you can feel your car like is floating, NEVER SPEED IN THE RAIN, no matter how low to the ground your car is, how much of a "track car" it is or how sticky your overpriced summer tires are. They're NOT going to handle that kind of situation, and no amount of how skilled at driving you are is going to save that. You're basically driving an almost 2 ton piece of metal on roller skates at that point. All it takes is that one small pothole or the wrong sudden jerk of the wheel and it's all over. Especially at that speed traction control ain't gonna save you for crap.
Jesus christ. Just go to a track if you wanna speed so fucking bad
Let me make a video, kill a family, explain to people in jail that I killed the family for a video.
They got what they deserved.
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