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wow. I was gonna comment on bad driving but clearly there's some nasty ice going on there. the car going sideways with the brake lights on was incredible!
I know! At first it was funny, than it was just scary and sad. :(
When inertia is not your friend...
This was, IIRC, last year.
Also, what you can't see is that it's a really steep hill. Covered in (as my grandmother would say) "ice, and idjits."
Hah, I like your grandmother.
I just knew that was going to be Portland...
Steer into the skid, people. Start, and stay, in high gear.
This is why I stayed indoors (in Portland) all day yesterday and the day before.
I can drive on the stuff, but everyone else on the road scares me.
I stayed indoors as well, because I know perfectly well that I can't drive on ice and I didn't want to end up on youtube.
Hah! I use that excuse when I'm asked why I don't carry any tools with me to job sites.
"I'm a danger to myself and others, and I'm likely to end up the next big viral video."
At such a low speed, forget it, you're screwed. There is no grip to be found on that street. Even the most advanced traction control system is going to be overwhelmed by that ice.
This is why I finally broken down and ordered some studded tires for my bike. I'll throw them on one of my secondary bikes so I don't have to dick around with changing tires while I'm groggy in the morning.
I live in Seattle, so I'll only use them rarely. But every year there's a couple days where I wish I'd ordered them.
Stay in high gear if you're standard. Stay in low gear if you're auto.
Generally.
Well, yes. You lose a lot of your fine control when you drive an automatic.
It's been a long time since I've had a car, or had to think about snow.
~textfiles.com/survival/wintdriv.txt
- Kitty litter will save your day.
I've read somewhere that with regular tires on ice (not chains/studded), a 5% incline is enough to render brakes ineffective -- the friction is so low the gravity just takes over... if you stop braking you can steer a bit, but then you'll be accelerating rapidly, which is even worse. With all the noises, I doubt there was much (if any) damage from those 2-3mph "bank shots".
I just moved to Olympia, WA from Wisconsin, and on Sunday there was a very light snowfall, something that would be completely negligible back home. The very little time that I spent outside that day, however, made it clear that people in this area have absolutely no idea how to drive in the snow.
If I had watched that video two weeks ago, I would have been shocked. Watching it after Sunday, however, it makes perfect sense.
-NW
What part of Wisconsin? Granted it's a bigass state... but I was born and raised 18 years in Green Bay, where if there's more than 36 inches of fresh snow, you break out the snowmobile to drive to the Packers game. A state where many fishermen's days begin with driving out ONTO the lake, etc.
I will say, your average northeast Wisconsinite would probably not do well in the conditions in that video, because hills simply do not exist there.
That needs to be remixed with sound effects and a laugh track.
It needs to be 2x as fast with the Benny Hill theme.
I suggest having this in a background tab for the soundtrack.
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=SPE8vL5hlFA
This is awesome.
I contend that it would also be cool sped up with Initial D soundtrack.
That is now my most recent Favorite Use of the Internet!
Thank you!
Holy crap, rad!
Made. Of. Win.
I can't believe how much funnier the video is when I do that.
Meanwhile, LOL, you Americans and your snow. In Decemeber no less.
Excellent. This is quite possibly the best "mashup" thingamajig in the world.
(Particularly helpful as the embedded version is refusing to play for some reason. Because the YouTube morons have marked it as "inappropriate", perhaps? Those, sexy, sexy sideways cars. Rawr.)
Because the sound of that guy revving his engine with his wheels the wrong way, and the resulting crashing sounds, aren't enough?
Did that first car actually try accelerating? I mean, I can understand how iced roads can seem deceptively safe, but it seemed like some of those cars kept trying to drive despite it being time to get out of the car and push.
You underestimate the levels of snow-driving incompetence we can come up with in the NW. People will even avoid clear, ice-free routes that are jammed with traffic for "faster" fully-iced routes.
When the car is still sliding, it is definitely NOT time to get out of the car and push. If you can get even a bit of traction, you can at least try to drive out of the direction of the slide. Which ultimately is only useful if you can point your car somewhere that it CAN get traction, but at any rate giving a bit of gas is far more sensible than stomping on the brakes which only makes the sliding worse.
A person getting out of their car to push it on ice is a person with a death wish.
Seemed to me like that one accelerating car near the beginning had their throttle broken or something on the first impact... the throttle sounds pretty pegged and stays that way until it hits two more cars and a wall, at which point the engine dies. Alternative B is -
:hits first car:
"oh shit oh shit oh shit!"
:slams on gas to do a hit-n-run, careens into second car:
"oh doubleshit oh doubleshit!"
ad infiniam, ad nauseam.
It wouldn't play at all, so I had to go to youtube and go through the hassle of making an account because for some reason it's tagged 18+.
And isn't this the same video that's been around for a few years now?
With that woman screaming "You guys! I've got three little children in the back of my car! Can you help me get them out?"
I was waiting for it before I heard it.
It plays fine if you press play on the embed I posted. The age verification bullshit only kicks in if you view the clip on Youtube's site directly.
You can make them play from Youtube's site without logging in with my Youtube Verify bookmarklet.
I pressed play on the embed you posted and got the little spiraling ring in the center for about two minutes.
It might be my internet or something I don't understand, but that's what happened. X)
That link didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but thank you for trying. -_-
Whoa. And then you could try reloading the page. Crazy technology.
Ooh, handy. Cheers.
It's not just you. Ditto.
Yeah, it does the spiral of doom for a long time for me too. I think youtube is choking, on my other machine it's taking an hour to load a 5 minute video.
Ah yes, I believe that vid was popular in Denver a couple of winters ago when we had blizzards seven weekends running. :(
This reminds me of a time when I saw a car driving in reverse. Not just backing up, actually driving to a destination at full speed. And they were doing pretty darn well.
It was perfect weather, though.
Vid was awesome. Even awesomer, your choice of Duran Duran choon. The original on Rio was good but the remix on Night Versions was even better.
Okaaaaaaaaay, NOW I am grateful to be here. That shit is terrifying.
we re-watch this clip every year, like The Wizard of Oz.
This is why I don't let Jamiroquai drive my car.
A news report incorporating this video plus a little more is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ratn_Wl8XU
You guys don't have gritters over there, huh?
Mistake number one: stepping into the car. Especially if you don't have winter tires (which I doubt, in Portland), or at least all seasons. And, really, in a steep hill, sheesh, they really deserved what they got (those who set their cars in movement, I'm sorry for the people who randomly got rammed by idiots).
Different icy hill, no collisions (remarkably), already BennyHillified: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378
That's not a native Washingtonian, We know to stay off the road when it snows.
Ah, the Disney classic - "Idiots Driving on Ice"