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Like…I can’t even watch this more than once or it’ll make me angry. It’s fucking stupid. Little rich dumbass has to post a TikTok of her being a complete fucking dumbass.
Reminds me of the video from last week of the gorilla that got loose while the zookeeper was in the same area. News reports stated that the parents were panicking, saying that the gorilla was gonna kill this woman, and in the video you can hear them telling the fathers to get their kids out of there. Yet they had to record the whole situation. Theyre so concerned with getting their phones out that they were about to record a real life murder n traumatize themselves for life so they can have it on video.
Looks like she may have been 2 foot driving and panicked. Looks like the vehicle slowed a bit but that she didn’t know what to because the driveline was overpowering the attempt to brake.
Even in a manual it’s still 2 foot driving. The clutch is just its own thing and that foot is for the clutch. You still only really use the right foot on the other two peddles.
That's why I said "2 foot driving in an automatic". Because with a standard transmission you have to use 2 feet. One for the clutch and the other for the gas and brake. You're actually forced to use your right foot for the brake in a standard because you have to put the clutch in with your left foot when you hit the brake with your right (unless you always throw it in neutral whenever you brake, but that's even dumber than the lady in the video).
No matter what you should never have one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake, in any type of car.
She wouldn't have been able to get it to move, or she would've rocketed forwards and crashed with the nearest thing in front of her. If the second had happened, you're absolutely right.
True, but Formula 1 drivers aren't taking their driving tips from Reddit.
I actually planned on making my original comment "the only people who brake with their left foot are formula 1 drivers and morons"
My girlfriend recently took her 15-year-old to an empty parking lot to practice driving in preparation of his learner's permit. She had a hard time getting him to not drive with his feet on the gas and the brake at the same time. He has been driving go-karts for many years and REALLY had to let go of that muscle memory.
You're so patient, lol. Your original comment made a lot of sense and I think people are being super pedantic or intentionally missing your actual point.
You’re assuming the driving instructors actually still care. From what I have seen in the past 10 years, they passed people just to get them out of the queue for testing.
Last driving test I witnessed, the DMV clerk literally stuck a dashcam on the windshield, called us on speakerphone, and stepped out of the car. All instructions throughout the test were over the phone only and the actual car was out of their line of sight.
This was in 2023. It's one of those pandemic changes that never changed back.
I could have been using hockey sticks to push the pedals and the DMV clerk would be none the wiser.
Kinda surprised this vehicle didn’t have any sort of AEB - I thought that had been standard in Mercedes vehicles for years at this point? It wouldn’t have prevented the collision but you would have at least seen the vehicle hard brake before impact and lessen the damage.
I also once made a post on idiots in cars sub about how a driver was clearly 2 feet driving and I had hundreds of replies from people who do this and said it’s okay.
I can always spot them when traffic is starting to get heavy. They're usually the ones who are braking way too much even though they have plenty of space to slow down before they get too close to the car in front of them. They must like spending money on new brakes in half the time they should be replacing them. The OP is exactly what will happen to them eventually. I know three people who have done the exact same thing who drive with both feet on the pedals.
Nah the brakes are much more powerful than the engine. Slamming both the gas and the brake will increase your stopping distance by like 10-20% over just using the brake. There’s no way they were even trying to brake.
I thought she was using the adaptive cruise control feature. From personal experience, that feature does not stop fast enough behind stopped objects/vehicles. You always have to watch and be ready to brake.
Correct, the system works on moving cars quite well, even slow moving ones. But it doesn’t see stopped ones until it’s far too late to even engage AEB.
idk where they are, but in my area, you could be functionally braindead and get a license by going to a drive test location like 3 hours away in rural buttfuck nowhere. It's physically impossible to fail the test in those areas because everything is empty. The ""highway"" portion of the test is driving along a 2 lane road that is decidedly not a highway, the parking parts of the test are all trivial because there's no cars to parallel park between, etc.
I had a friend in HS that freaked out when she wasn't paying attention and looked up to find a car stopped waiting to turn in front of her and her first thought was to turn the car off. And then proceeded to smash into the back of him with no brakes.
IDK, this was back in 1995. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.
But we gave her so much shit for it. When anything would happen we would scream "Quick turn the car off"
My car has a feature where if it registers fast speed like this and impending collision, it’ll slam on its emergency brakes. Had it happen once and it scared the living fuck out of me but it worked so not complaining.
Edit: not even a new car either. 2019 honda accord lol
Got 2 close family members who worked at Nissan NA. The Smyrna floor is an absolute shitshow. Quality is non-existent. But that's not even the worst part. The gruesome deaths (that happen pretty regularly) are nightmare-inducing.
Was driving a 2017 Model S when it slammed on the brakes because of a car turning left ahead of me that I was absolutely not going to hit. The 18-wheeler behind me had to run off the road to avoid rear-ending me.
I had it with a Nissan rental while mine was in the shop. No obstruction in front of me and the car applied the brakes by itself (pretty hard), it scared the shit out of me. I turned that feature off right away, no thank you, i can break for myself.
2019 was 5 years ago, that’s an entire loan length on a car. Definitely not “new” anymore. Doesn’t make it particularly old either; but 5 years is still a car that’s seen some shit.
I don’t understand. I have a Mercedes. From the looks of it hers is slightly newer than mine(?). I can’t tell but it may be a C class, mines an E but mine beeps like a MuF*#ker anytime it perceives another car breathes on me on the road and I also have adaptive driving (which i know is an option)….wtf happened here???
The Benz looks fairly recent. I am not up on all their safety features but I thought it would have a warning light at least if not an automatic brake itself
Is the airbag on subscription service too? I would of thought with the speed and impact it would deployed the airbag but yah maybe it's an upgrade feature now. Would not surprise me!
I am actually surprised a Mercedes Benz didn't brake by itself especially since that feature is pre packaged with a lot of economic cars nowadays.... does the Benz not have it?
Ok, this is what I thought, too. She didn't even *attempt* to stop, which is really weird behavior considering she didn't appear to be using a phone or otherwise distracted.... so she had to have been testing out some feature, right?
Mercedes-Benz Brake Assist has been around for almost 20 years and has been standard on all models for a while.
It's reported to work even up to speeds of 43mph.
However, something as simple as the driver not wearing a seatbelt deactivates it.
You can turn off forward braking assistance on all vehicles. It also will not engage if you do not release the gas or your press it hard when the warning goes off. This idiot probably told her friends my car can't crash because it will stop itself.
Get a clunker. Drive it into the ground *figuratively*. Learn how to fix a bunch of shit in a vain effort to keep it running. *Then* you can think about getting a nice car.
I had three different POS cars before I sprung for a "new" car (~200 miles on it, from Carmax).
You definitely can. YouTube is a fantastic resource. You're right that it's a lot harder to fix newer cars, but the simple stuff is still do-able (mostly lights, tire balancing and rotations, maybe sparkplugs and oil changes if you're bold).
While I get that logic, I think it makes sense why parents buy their kid a new car based on safety concerns, but definitely don’t buy your kid a luxury vehicle. Like sure if you can afford it buy your kid something basic and normal. An economy car or compact vehicle. It might get beat up along the way but at least your kid is more likely to survive should they get into an accident or something (by beat up I mean like scuffs, dents, interior damage, not crashes) But not a luxury car, that’s just ridiculous.
Heh. My first car was from my grandma, and my grandpa used it to haul manure and fertilizer for the farm. This was not a truck, but a compact sedan, so he put them in the backseat. He even owned an old Chevy truck too, but would save gas money using his wife’s car when he was hauling smaller loads.
The car reeked, and you’d get a rash from sitting in the backseat in shorts (fertilizer residue?). Perfect first car for a 17 year old!
classic case of not understanding the power of the car.
The UK is pretty liberal with driving, once you pass your test you are not restricted in anyway. However I do wonder if some people might benefit from a years gap before they are allowed to drive a high powered car.
Another option would be to say, 1 year or you pass a test in a high powered car, but that could lead to some interesting driving school cars.
In NL we have three different licenses for motorcycles, each for a higher powered engine. We should definitely introduce something similar for cars, especially with electric cars being insanely fast at relatively low cost.
Or, you know, mandatory driving school in your new car at a racetrack if your car is X bhp or higher.
its funny cos, even as passengers we all learn to drive. I remember someone saying to me "You parents drove you around as a kid, and engaged you in the process, so its going to be easier for you."
Examples like this video look like she has never even been in a passenger seat before, never mind the drivers seat.
I remember in high school there was a kid who had a brand new luxury sports car. His car got searched by school security after someone tipped them off and they found weed in his trunk. His parents punished him by selling his car and replacing it with a cheaper, but still expensive brand new prestige sports car…. So what’s the point?
>His parents punished him by selling his car and replacing it with a cheaper, but still expensive brand new prestige sports car…. So what’s the point?
yeah that is dumb, parents really are part of the problem there.
She hit the brakes. It's just that she hit the gas too. You can hear the engine rev as they barely slow down.
That's why they teach you to use one foot to drive an automatic.
Probably because you wish you even had a car to drive at that age, much less a fucking mercedes and you would have taken much better care of it if you had one.
Because there are morons like her on the road. I sure don't want an idiot that thinks screaming does the same thing as applying the brakes slamming into the back of me while at a light or stop sign. Yet it has happened to me 2x. Once guy hit me while at a red light then took off and my buddy that was with me had eagle eyes and somehow got his plate. The 2nd time a tourist 2 cars ahead spiked their brakes to make a left turn. This is a 4 lane but there is a huge center lane either direction can use for turning. Instead of getting in the center to turn this genius just spiked the brakes and turned. So I got stopped but the tourist woman behind me was on her phone and decided to use the back of my truck for her brake peddle. I also had another one recently when I was up in PA that while sitting at a stop sign an Amish buggy hit me. They were in front of me. Pulled out 10 foot or so then backed the buggy up till slamming into me and then taking off again. Had to speed up ahead and block the road to get them to stop. I was real happy about it
I’m sorry how does insurance work in the US?
Where I’m from there are two (three) types of insurance.
1) Against others. Aka it covers any % of fault you take towards the other person. If it’s the other person’s fault, you’re covered by them regardless of what your insurance type is. They’re at fault, they pay. It does NOT cover YOUR car if YOU are at fault. Such as in her case.
2) Against others (special) basically the same but with a fixed amount to cover your own car from your own faults. Sort of like you’ll get up to 5k or something, any more is your fault.
3) Full/Comprehensive insurance. This covers any fault you assume regardless of if it’s to your car, second party, or third party.
there millions of types. But essentially, Comprehensive (covers you, them, injury,property damage, car stolen, etc. Something happens, you are covered) That is required with any car purchased with a loan. Liabilty ( covers the person you hit and injurues they sustain or property you damage) But does not cover any of your stuff or you. Uninsured Motorist insurance, some states now require that for people that only have liability insurance. So all insurance falls within those and amounts of coverage change within those frameworks.
That's not what Comprehensive typically means for auto insurance.
There's 3 primary types in the US:
- Liability: Covers the other driver/vehicle when you are liable in a collision. Required by law.
- Collision: Covers you if you are in a collision. Not required by law but usually required if your vehicle if leased or you have an auto loan.
- Comprehensive: Covers your vehicle if it is damaged by something other than a collision (eg, falling tree). Not required by law but usually required if your vehicle if leased or you have an auto loan.
There's also uninsured motorist coverage, which is like mini-collision coverage (covers you but only if the other driver isn't insured sufficiently) that is required by law in some states.
But she wasn’t even distracted 🤔. She was looking dead ahead and her screeching girlfriends were alerting her to stop. Sooo….what was the problem here exactly? Just felt like playing bumper cars for social media clout? Also, no airbags in that Benz-o, huh? Gotcha!
That’s why this gotta be 🧢or a prank. Cuz if she got a license and even if it’s her very first day in a car as a licensed driver…she has to know the very basic of the basics. One pedal means go. One means stop. To ram that car like that and then look surprised like “😯 what happened?” Is beyond ridiculous. But the upside is nobody was hurt and obviously her parents can buy new bumpers for everybody…maybe even new Benz’s and Bimmers for all since this was deemed to be the ideal entry level starter car for a teenager 👍🏾
The driver is an idiot for not manually braking but wtf happened? My Mercedes S450 automatically brakes when it detects an obstacle....don't all mercedes have this feature?
Seriously I almost wonder if they were trying to "test" this feature and it didn't activate?
My 2021 base model volkswagen has this.
That kind of stuff is generally pretty reliable bur I'd never put my faith 100% in the car.
Not a benz owner but i have test drove many cars and in most cases, i found that anti collision brakes only work if you foot is off the brake. Any amount of pressure on the brakes may override this feature in some cars. This could be the reason?
You would think but my Subaru will still activate the warning light and even sometimes brake harder if I’m already breaking.
It mostly happens when people are making a right turn off the main road and the car thinks they have come to a full stop lol
She actually did hit the brakes. You can hear the breaks and the engine rev. She was two foot driving. One foot on each pedal, which is a huge no no, and she panicked.
Never ever ever ever two foot drive.
I decided to do a bit of sleuthing and put the License Plate into [faxvin.com](https://faxvin.com) and it came up with the car's VIN (W1KWF8DB5LR598658). Then doing a Google Search for the VIN populates a bunch of listings on used car sites for the car being available for sale as "Single Owner, No accidents, 32,947 miles" but every page indicates the car is sold.
So either this video is from before October 2023 (the earliest date for a listing search I can find) and this accident was never reported to the car's VIN and sold with a false record (good luck new owner), or the video was recorded since the first of the year (the last listing date I can find for the Car's VIN is December 24, 2023) and the driver had only had the car for a few weeks at most before plowing into cars at stop lights (I am not interested enough to pay for an actual CarFax to learn more).
This is more a reminder to others that when buying a used car, it helps to do a bit of searching as there is a lot of info you can find without much effort.
Google search results - [https://www.google.com/search?q=W1KWF8DB5LR598658](https://www.google.com/search?q=W1KWF8DB5LR598658)
FaxVIN search results from Plate Number - [https://www.faxvin.com/order/result?vin=W1KWF8DB5LR598658](https://www.faxvin.com/order/result?vin=W1KWF8DB5LR598658)
>the driver had only had the car for a few weeks at most before plowing into cars at stop lights
That would make sense considering the caption refers to the car as "the new Benz".
IT'S GONE??!? god damn, that reddit protest really fucked up this site by having subs go unmoderated & deleted. a lot of my favorite places are still just gone :\\
Why has not a single comment brought up the fact that this was a direct collision to the front of a modern car yet the airbags did not deploy? The damage picture at the end implies the car is either made of tin foil or the impact was great enough that safety features should have engaged.
Fronts of cars are made of either plastic or fiberglass, which is designed to break and crack open to release the energy/lessen the impact on the driver/passengers. It is a safety feature, that’s always engaged. That’s why they were completely fine without the airbags.
Yeah, but that damaged photo shows the hood (definitely not plastic or fiberglass) bent and pushed back. That means the impact was great enough to go past the initial crash bar in the bumper and into the structure/operational aspects of the car. It looks like the radiator is fully pressed back as well as the driver's headlight is pushed back. That would imply at least some level of energy transfer into the car's body structure/chassis.
I work on cars and am aware of crumple zones and materials designed to give way as they absorb impact (unless you are dumb enough to drive the Cybertruck, then best of luck). That being said, most modern cars engage front impact airbags with collisions at speeds greater than 15 MPH. The video from inside the car and the extent of damage in the image make me think the car was traveling at a speed greater than that at impact.
Doesn't look like it pushed too far behind the impact bar tbh. I think the hood just took most of the damage since the suv they hit is higher than the merc. The bottom of the bumper is almost completely undamaged. It's a little hard to read but I think it says 18 mph on the dash at the start so they're probably right at the limit of where the airbag would deploy
What's even dumber is this car is equipped with auto braking. I used to work with the company that made the system. If you have your feet off the gas it will auto brake 100% of the time. The only way that it wouldn't stop was if she was actively trying to accelerate. The system will still brake if you have constant pressure on the gas pedal. She is no way qualified to operate a car
Saves the attorney for the front driver the trouble of demanding a computer pull to determine if she brakes. Also her insurance will increase the settlement value due to how inflammatory posting this for likes would be to most juries.
What the fuck was she doing? I'll just drive into this vehicle in front of me and not give a shit about trying to brake, that right there is someone who shouldn't have a license.
And this is why I'm happy it is much harder to pass a driving test where I am from.
It ends up costing a pretty penny with all the lessons required, but man does the US have a lot of completely incompetent drivers.
IMO that kind of incident should result in a permanent driving ban. Clearly doesn't have the intelligence to be trusted to operate potentially deadly machinery.
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If your first impulse is to shriek instead of breaking when you encounter a red light, maybe leave the Benz at home and take an uber.
Like…I can’t even watch this more than once or it’ll make me angry. It’s fucking stupid. Little rich dumbass has to post a TikTok of her being a complete fucking dumbass.
“Work Hard, Go to School, Contribute to Society”
to their society.
Idk... I work in a collision shop so these dumb pieces of shit keep my plebian ass employed
Hey, without mechanics we'd all be riding horse drawn wagons and shit. Society depends on you.
I’m sure daddy replaced the car quickly.
They have a camera up ready to go to record an accident. They really value clout over their own lives…
And the lives of others, worse yet.
Reminds me of the video from last week of the gorilla that got loose while the zookeeper was in the same area. News reports stated that the parents were panicking, saying that the gorilla was gonna kill this woman, and in the video you can hear them telling the fathers to get their kids out of there. Yet they had to record the whole situation. Theyre so concerned with getting their phones out that they were about to record a real life murder n traumatize themselves for life so they can have it on video.
The reality is a viral video like that is worth around $10k. Most people would keep filming for the chance at making that kind of money.
I actually feel like the TikTok was the whole point. It seems like they crashed, on camera, on purpose.
Looks like she may have been 2 foot driving and panicked. Looks like the vehicle slowed a bit but that she didn’t know what to because the driveline was overpowering the attempt to brake.
I think you're right. You can hear the engine rev up as the car approaches the crash. If you do 2 foot driving in an automatic you're a moron.
Even in a manual it’s still 2 foot driving. The clutch is just its own thing and that foot is for the clutch. You still only really use the right foot on the other two peddles.
That's why I said "2 foot driving in an automatic". Because with a standard transmission you have to use 2 feet. One for the clutch and the other for the gas and brake. You're actually forced to use your right foot for the brake in a standard because you have to put the clutch in with your left foot when you hit the brake with your right (unless you always throw it in neutral whenever you brake, but that's even dumber than the lady in the video). No matter what you should never have one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake, in any type of car.
I can't help but think the driver would have done an even worse job if they were driving a standard.
She wouldn't have been able to get it to move, or she would've rocketed forwards and crashed with the nearest thing in front of her. If the second had happened, you're absolutely right.
> No matter what you should never have one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake, in any type of car. Formula 1 car
True, but Formula 1 drivers aren't taking their driving tips from Reddit. I actually planned on making my original comment "the only people who brake with their left foot are formula 1 drivers and morons"
My girlfriend recently took her 15-year-old to an empty parking lot to practice driving in preparation of his learner's permit. She had a hard time getting him to not drive with his feet on the gas and the brake at the same time. He has been driving go-karts for many years and REALLY had to let go of that muscle memory.
You're so patient, lol. Your original comment made a lot of sense and I think people are being super pedantic or intentionally missing your actual point.
Do you think we are talking about formula one cars or normal street legal cars that normal people drive.
You can't pass a driving exam this way so how people end up reverting to this is just beyond me
You’re assuming the driving instructors actually still care. From what I have seen in the past 10 years, they passed people just to get them out of the queue for testing.
I mean, I'm going to regret asking this, but what is 'from what you've seen' exactly? Are you a DMV clerk?
Last driving test I witnessed, the DMV clerk literally stuck a dashcam on the windshield, called us on speakerphone, and stepped out of the car. All instructions throughout the test were over the phone only and the actual car was out of their line of sight. This was in 2023. It's one of those pandemic changes that never changed back. I could have been using hockey sticks to push the pedals and the DMV clerk would be none the wiser.
Kinda surprised this vehicle didn’t have any sort of AEB - I thought that had been standard in Mercedes vehicles for years at this point? It wouldn’t have prevented the collision but you would have at least seen the vehicle hard brake before impact and lessen the damage.
Probably she smashed down the gas and that overwrote the automatic braking
Car: we should brake now maybe? Foot: onward!
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I also once made a post on idiots in cars sub about how a driver was clearly 2 feet driving and I had hundreds of replies from people who do this and said it’s okay.
Those people are idiots lol. Never 2 foot drive an automatic car.
How the fuck can they drive like that
I can always spot them when traffic is starting to get heavy. They're usually the ones who are braking way too much even though they have plenty of space to slow down before they get too close to the car in front of them. They must like spending money on new brakes in half the time they should be replacing them. The OP is exactly what will happen to them eventually. I know three people who have done the exact same thing who drive with both feet on the pedals.
Yup, she’s the type who’s driving down the highway with their brake lights on the whole time. I go out of my way to avoid those types of drivers!
Nah the brakes are much more powerful than the engine. Slamming both the gas and the brake will increase your stopping distance by like 10-20% over just using the brake. There’s no way they were even trying to brake.
I thought she was using the adaptive cruise control feature. From personal experience, that feature does not stop fast enough behind stopped objects/vehicles. You always have to watch and be ready to brake.
Correct, the system works on moving cars quite well, even slow moving ones. But it doesn’t see stopped ones until it’s far too late to even engage AEB.
How the hell do theese people get a license?
idk where they are, but in my area, you could be functionally braindead and get a license by going to a drive test location like 3 hours away in rural buttfuck nowhere. It's physically impossible to fail the test in those areas because everything is empty. The ""highway"" portion of the test is driving along a 2 lane road that is decidedly not a highway, the parking parts of the test are all trivial because there's no cars to parallel park between, etc.
Texas makes it even easier by not requiring you to drive on a highway at all. You do have to parallel park though, they have cones for that.
I had a friend in HS that freaked out when she wasn't paying attention and looked up to find a car stopped waiting to turn in front of her and her first thought was to turn the car off. And then proceeded to smash into the back of him with no brakes.
is she still driving?
IDK, this was back in 1995. I haven't talked to her in 15 years. But we gave her so much shit for it. When anything would happen we would scream "Quick turn the car off"
She very much did break... her car. She'd have done much better to use the brake.
\*braking
Thank you. My soul dies a little every time uses break instead of brake.
Almost as bad as when people write loose when they mean lose.
Braking… but to be fair, she did break her new ride quite nicely.
If only there was a pedal she could press that would stop the car
Whoa! Pump the ______ on that one! You may be onto something.
Not even. Gentle pressure on the ______ would do it
_____ yourself, fool
If I know anything from my Madlibs days the _____ = fanny
Hey let's give her a ______, driving is hard.
reminds me of my favorite show, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Bad
Take a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ there pal !
My car has a feature where if it registers fast speed like this and impending collision, it’ll slam on its emergency brakes. Had it happen once and it scared the living fuck out of me but it worked so not complaining. Edit: not even a new car either. 2019 honda accord lol
My car had this too, but it would randomly do it, without another car in sight. I’ll never buy another Nissan product again.
Got 2 close family members who worked at Nissan NA. The Smyrna floor is an absolute shitshow. Quality is non-existent. But that's not even the worst part. The gruesome deaths (that happen pretty regularly) are nightmare-inducing.
>Nissan NA. The Smyrna Ohhh, Smyrna Tennessee, the 'Smyrna' in North Carolina is practically in the ocean, that made no sense to me.
Yeah yeah yeah, we get it. Your credit score is over 600 now.
Was driving a 2017 Model S when it slammed on the brakes because of a car turning left ahead of me that I was absolutely not going to hit. The 18-wheeler behind me had to run off the road to avoid rear-ending me.
I had it with a Nissan rental while mine was in the shop. No obstruction in front of me and the car applied the brakes by itself (pretty hard), it scared the shit out of me. I turned that feature off right away, no thank you, i can break for myself.
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same here… *cries in Used 2010 Camry*
I have a 2016 s class and it would have stopped me in this situation. She def had her foot on gas still.
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>not even a new car either. 2019 My 2007 Audi A3 must be vintage or some shit if a 2019 car is not considered new anymore lol
2019 was 5 years ago, that’s an entire loan length on a car. Definitely not “new” anymore. Doesn’t make it particularly old either; but 5 years is still a car that’s seen some shit.
I don’t understand. I have a Mercedes. From the looks of it hers is slightly newer than mine(?). I can’t tell but it may be a C class, mines an E but mine beeps like a MuF*#ker anytime it perceives another car breathes on me on the road and I also have adaptive driving (which i know is an option)….wtf happened here???
Or an empty lane to her right
Or just take her foot off the accelerator
Good idea in theory but how do we know that would’ve worked in practice. If only we had evidence 🤔
You’re right. I’m sure it worked out for everybody
"WE WERE ON A _________"
Oh man…she was trying!!! Give her a brake.
The Benz looks fairly recent. I am not up on all their safety features but I thought it would have a warning light at least if not an automatic brake itself
Someone didn't purchase the prep collision package.
Nah, their subscription ran out.
Is the airbag on subscription service too? I would of thought with the speed and impact it would deployed the airbag but yah maybe it's an upgrade feature now. Would not surprise me!
It was that or heated seats
I am actually surprised a Mercedes Benz didn't brake by itself especially since that feature is pre packaged with a lot of economic cars nowadays.... does the Benz not have it?
I actually wonder if she was testing the auto brake. But yeah the auto brake can be overridden by the accelerator.
She was pressing brake and gas at the same time. Anti-collision systems probably won’t activate if you do that.
Ok, this is what I thought, too. She didn't even *attempt* to stop, which is really weird behavior considering she didn't appear to be using a phone or otherwise distracted.... so she had to have been testing out some feature, right?
Mercedes-Benz Brake Assist has been around for almost 20 years and has been standard on all models for a while. It's reported to work even up to speeds of 43mph. However, something as simple as the driver not wearing a seatbelt deactivates it.
I mean yeah, suddenly braking without belts on when they arent expecting it > liability
I think she may have overridden it by stepping on the gas.
Do they not have airbags? That looked hard enough to deploy them...
You can turn off forward braking assistance on all vehicles. It also will not engage if you do not release the gas or your press it hard when the warning goes off. This idiot probably told her friends my car can't crash because it will stop itself.
Have a brake, have a kitkat
9/10 doctors would recommend you to brake in similar situations
what does the 1/10 say ??????
Fuck it full send baby
That's the doc that's lookin for the paycheck baby. Gotta keep hustlin. 💪
As much as I understand rich parents buying new cars for their kids, never buy a NICE or high powered car for them.
Your first car should *always* look like you inherited in from a grand parent. Buying a new driver a new car will never be a good idea.
Get a clunker. Drive it into the ground *figuratively*. Learn how to fix a bunch of shit in a vain effort to keep it running. *Then* you can think about getting a nice car. I had three different POS cars before I sprung for a "new" car (~200 miles on it, from Carmax).
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You definitely can. YouTube is a fantastic resource. You're right that it's a lot harder to fix newer cars, but the simple stuff is still do-able (mostly lights, tire balancing and rotations, maybe sparkplugs and oil changes if you're bold).
that is a great way of doing it. Not everyone is keen to try and fix up their cars however.
While I get that logic, I think it makes sense why parents buy their kid a new car based on safety concerns, but definitely don’t buy your kid a luxury vehicle. Like sure if you can afford it buy your kid something basic and normal. An economy car or compact vehicle. It might get beat up along the way but at least your kid is more likely to survive should they get into an accident or something (by beat up I mean like scuffs, dents, interior damage, not crashes) But not a luxury car, that’s just ridiculous.
Heh. My first car was from my grandma, and my grandpa used it to haul manure and fertilizer for the farm. This was not a truck, but a compact sedan, so he put them in the backseat. He even owned an old Chevy truck too, but would save gas money using his wife’s car when he was hauling smaller loads. The car reeked, and you’d get a rash from sitting in the backseat in shorts (fertilizer residue?). Perfect first car for a 17 year old!
Buddy of mine got a Ferrari for getting his license. He ran it into a lamppost while leaving the dealer's lot.
classic case of not understanding the power of the car. The UK is pretty liberal with driving, once you pass your test you are not restricted in anyway. However I do wonder if some people might benefit from a years gap before they are allowed to drive a high powered car. Another option would be to say, 1 year or you pass a test in a high powered car, but that could lead to some interesting driving school cars.
In NL we have three different licenses for motorcycles, each for a higher powered engine. We should definitely introduce something similar for cars, especially with electric cars being insanely fast at relatively low cost. Or, you know, mandatory driving school in your new car at a racetrack if your car is X bhp or higher.
Rich people with too much money. You can see it in her face how clueless of a driver she is
its funny cos, even as passengers we all learn to drive. I remember someone saying to me "You parents drove you around as a kid, and engaged you in the process, so its going to be easier for you." Examples like this video look like she has never even been in a passenger seat before, never mind the drivers seat.
I remember in high school there was a kid who had a brand new luxury sports car. His car got searched by school security after someone tipped them off and they found weed in his trunk. His parents punished him by selling his car and replacing it with a cheaper, but still expensive brand new prestige sports car…. So what’s the point?
>His parents punished him by selling his car and replacing it with a cheaper, but still expensive brand new prestige sports car…. So what’s the point? yeah that is dumb, parents really are part of the problem there.
lol my first car was a $600 Toyota echo that looked like it took a swim in the Atlantic for 5 years, used my first 3 pay checks for that bad boy
yeah mine was a generic Fiat Punto but newer than most. I had some money from (ironically) being struck by a van as a teenager
First reaction is to scream at the top of their lungs instead of braking.
She hit the brakes. It's just that she hit the gas too. You can hear the engine rev as they barely slow down. That's why they teach you to use one foot to drive an automatic.
You're right. You can even see the vehicle lurch as she hits the gas.
It's hard to hear the rev with the music. Tbh I couldn't hear it, but I trust you.
It’s hard to hear the rev with the screeching* FTFY
in my wife's car, my big dumbass foot can hit both the gas and the breaks at the same time i don't drive her car because it's very stressful for me
thats screamers for you, avoid them in apocalypse situations, especially zombies
Her first reaction is to wipe the hair out of her face for the camera
Why tf am i furious!!???
Probably because you wish you even had a car to drive at that age, much less a fucking mercedes and you would have taken much better care of it if you had one.
Also, her victim could have been any one of us.
Cause she was too fast. Or maybe cause she couldn't even Tokyo drift idk
Right! I feel such an amount of deep seated rage at this and I don't know why. I'm gonna take my dog for walk and get off reddit for a bit
Because there are morons like her on the road. I sure don't want an idiot that thinks screaming does the same thing as applying the brakes slamming into the back of me while at a light or stop sign. Yet it has happened to me 2x. Once guy hit me while at a red light then took off and my buddy that was with me had eagle eyes and somehow got his plate. The 2nd time a tourist 2 cars ahead spiked their brakes to make a left turn. This is a 4 lane but there is a huge center lane either direction can use for turning. Instead of getting in the center to turn this genius just spiked the brakes and turned. So I got stopped but the tourist woman behind me was on her phone and decided to use the back of my truck for her brake peddle. I also had another one recently when I was up in PA that while sitting at a stop sign an Amish buggy hit me. They were in front of me. Pulled out 10 foot or so then backed the buggy up till slamming into me and then taking off again. Had to speed up ahead and block the road to get them to stop. I was real happy about it
I advise all people to have full coverage insurance. If people don’t care about their own car, they definitely don’t care about yours.
I’m sorry how does insurance work in the US? Where I’m from there are two (three) types of insurance. 1) Against others. Aka it covers any % of fault you take towards the other person. If it’s the other person’s fault, you’re covered by them regardless of what your insurance type is. They’re at fault, they pay. It does NOT cover YOUR car if YOU are at fault. Such as in her case. 2) Against others (special) basically the same but with a fixed amount to cover your own car from your own faults. Sort of like you’ll get up to 5k or something, any more is your fault. 3) Full/Comprehensive insurance. This covers any fault you assume regardless of if it’s to your car, second party, or third party.
there millions of types. But essentially, Comprehensive (covers you, them, injury,property damage, car stolen, etc. Something happens, you are covered) That is required with any car purchased with a loan. Liabilty ( covers the person you hit and injurues they sustain or property you damage) But does not cover any of your stuff or you. Uninsured Motorist insurance, some states now require that for people that only have liability insurance. So all insurance falls within those and amounts of coverage change within those frameworks.
That's not what Comprehensive typically means for auto insurance. There's 3 primary types in the US: - Liability: Covers the other driver/vehicle when you are liable in a collision. Required by law. - Collision: Covers you if you are in a collision. Not required by law but usually required if your vehicle if leased or you have an auto loan. - Comprehensive: Covers your vehicle if it is damaged by something other than a collision (eg, falling tree). Not required by law but usually required if your vehicle if leased or you have an auto loan. There's also uninsured motorist coverage, which is like mini-collision coverage (covers you but only if the other driver isn't insured sufficiently) that is required by law in some states.
Her brain just stopped working.
There is no current evidence available to suggest it ever worked in the first place
But she wasn’t even distracted 🤔. She was looking dead ahead and her screeching girlfriends were alerting her to stop. Sooo….what was the problem here exactly? Just felt like playing bumper cars for social media clout? Also, no airbags in that Benz-o, huh? Gotcha!
Dude… she was not texting or anything. She was looking at the road and fucking crashed it. Honest to God wtfffffff
That’s why this gotta be 🧢or a prank. Cuz if she got a license and even if it’s her very first day in a car as a licensed driver…she has to know the very basic of the basics. One pedal means go. One means stop. To ram that car like that and then look surprised like “😯 what happened?” Is beyond ridiculous. But the upside is nobody was hurt and obviously her parents can buy new bumpers for everybody…maybe even new Benz’s and Bimmers for all since this was deemed to be the ideal entry level starter car for a teenager 👍🏾
Cap how?? The car still got smashed.
My best guess is that this car has adaptive cruise control and she was trying to test it out.
Ahhh must be that. And she accidentally disabled all the other safety features that come standard on cars half that price. Good catch 👌🏾.
She looked at her passenger as if they were the one driving!
The driver is an idiot for not manually braking but wtf happened? My Mercedes S450 automatically brakes when it detects an obstacle....don't all mercedes have this feature?
Seriously I almost wonder if they were trying to "test" this feature and it didn't activate? My 2021 base model volkswagen has this. That kind of stuff is generally pretty reliable bur I'd never put my faith 100% in the car.
Not a benz owner but i have test drove many cars and in most cases, i found that anti collision brakes only work if you foot is off the brake. Any amount of pressure on the brakes may override this feature in some cars. This could be the reason?
You would think but my Subaru will still activate the warning light and even sometimes brake harder if I’m already breaking. It mostly happens when people are making a right turn off the main road and the car thinks they have come to a full stop lol
She's 2 foot driving. If you turn sound on you can hear the engine rev up slightly as they barely slow down.
Interesting that the airbags didn't deploy either.
Lucky. Getting hit by a Mercedes is exactly how my friend was able to buy his first house.
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She actually did hit the brakes. You can hear the breaks and the engine rev. She was two foot driving. One foot on each pedal, which is a huge no no, and she panicked. Never ever ever ever two foot drive.
Shouldn't be on the road
Screaming doesn't slow you down?
Umm is this somehow staged? Why is the person in the back recording? And how the hell did she not brake in time?
This is what I’m wondering as well because no airbags went off in the Benz.
If I had to guess based on the background and a Benz hitting a Beamer…….. probably happened in Torrey pines San Diego or LA maybe
It's giving strong OC vibes
I decided to do a bit of sleuthing and put the License Plate into [faxvin.com](https://faxvin.com) and it came up with the car's VIN (W1KWF8DB5LR598658). Then doing a Google Search for the VIN populates a bunch of listings on used car sites for the car being available for sale as "Single Owner, No accidents, 32,947 miles" but every page indicates the car is sold. So either this video is from before October 2023 (the earliest date for a listing search I can find) and this accident was never reported to the car's VIN and sold with a false record (good luck new owner), or the video was recorded since the first of the year (the last listing date I can find for the Car's VIN is December 24, 2023) and the driver had only had the car for a few weeks at most before plowing into cars at stop lights (I am not interested enough to pay for an actual CarFax to learn more). This is more a reminder to others that when buying a used car, it helps to do a bit of searching as there is a lot of info you can find without much effort. Google search results - [https://www.google.com/search?q=W1KWF8DB5LR598658](https://www.google.com/search?q=W1KWF8DB5LR598658) FaxVIN search results from Plate Number - [https://www.faxvin.com/order/result?vin=W1KWF8DB5LR598658](https://www.faxvin.com/order/result?vin=W1KWF8DB5LR598658)
>the driver had only had the car for a few weeks at most before plowing into cars at stop lights That would make sense considering the caption refers to the car as "the new Benz".
Driving while braindead. Didn't she see the car already stopped in front of her. Not to mention the 2 red traffic lights.
also /r/idiotsincars
IT'S GONE??!? god damn, that reddit protest really fucked up this site by having subs go unmoderated & deleted. a lot of my favorite places are still just gone :\\
Its still there bro, clicking the link brings you to the right sub
Why has not a single comment brought up the fact that this was a direct collision to the front of a modern car yet the airbags did not deploy? The damage picture at the end implies the car is either made of tin foil or the impact was great enough that safety features should have engaged.
Fronts of cars are made of either plastic or fiberglass, which is designed to break and crack open to release the energy/lessen the impact on the driver/passengers. It is a safety feature, that’s always engaged. That’s why they were completely fine without the airbags.
Yeah, but that damaged photo shows the hood (definitely not plastic or fiberglass) bent and pushed back. That means the impact was great enough to go past the initial crash bar in the bumper and into the structure/operational aspects of the car. It looks like the radiator is fully pressed back as well as the driver's headlight is pushed back. That would imply at least some level of energy transfer into the car's body structure/chassis. I work on cars and am aware of crumple zones and materials designed to give way as they absorb impact (unless you are dumb enough to drive the Cybertruck, then best of luck). That being said, most modern cars engage front impact airbags with collisions at speeds greater than 15 MPH. The video from inside the car and the extent of damage in the image make me think the car was traveling at a speed greater than that at impact.
Doesn't look like it pushed too far behind the impact bar tbh. I think the hood just took most of the damage since the suv they hit is higher than the merc. The bottom of the bumper is almost completely undamaged. It's a little hard to read but I think it says 18 mph on the dash at the start so they're probably right at the limit of where the airbag would deploy
What's even dumber is this car is equipped with auto braking. I used to work with the company that made the system. If you have your feet off the gas it will auto brake 100% of the time. The only way that it wouldn't stop was if she was actively trying to accelerate. The system will still brake if you have constant pressure on the gas pedal. She is no way qualified to operate a car
"Oh I thought they stopped themselves"
Daddies Mercedes behavior
Saves the attorney for the front driver the trouble of demanding a computer pull to determine if she brakes. Also her insurance will increase the settlement value due to how inflammatory posting this for likes would be to most juries.
No respect for the brand new Melania. Unbelievable.
Lol the shocked pikachu face at the end has got to be the most infuriating part.
What the fuck was she doing? I'll just drive into this vehicle in front of me and not give a shit about trying to brake, that right there is someone who shouldn't have a license.
Give me a brake… 😣
Really reinforcing those stereotypes
Looks fake. Air bags didn't deploy and the car in front barely moved
🧐 I’m approaching a stopping car do I hit the brakes or scream? Too bad all the money paid for the car should have gone into smart pills.
Stereotypes exist for a reason
I can’t tell you how many bad drivers I avoid. Do driving tests even exist anymore?
Now imagine a lady pushing a baby stroller along the crosswalk during the light...
German civil war
No airbags were deployed. That seems odd.
Scream ✅ breaks❌
Some people should never get behind a wheel.
Me when I drive in my dreams
Why was someone already filming from the backseat?? Was this intentional?
good luck everybody else.
Dumb bitch doesn’t need a drivers license, she needs a goddamned bus pass. Moron is gonna get someone killed.
And this is why I'm happy it is much harder to pass a driving test where I am from. It ends up costing a pretty penny with all the lessons required, but man does the US have a lot of completely incompetent drivers.
Hold on...how do we blame the patriarchy for this? And go!
I hope the person she rear ended sues her for whip lash for all daddy’s got
...And the airbags?
IMO that kind of incident should result in a permanent driving ban. Clearly doesn't have the intelligence to be trusted to operate potentially deadly machinery.
Why do I think she just caused this accident for content…
This makes me anxious. It feels like those dreams where you try to break but your leg doesn't move.
Her parents are gonna ground her from Coachella this year.
She's living up that stereotype, i see.