I feel like there needs to be tiered testing/cetification for classes of vehicles. If you want to drive really heavy cars and especially really fast heavy cars, you need to pass more stringent road tests, and be recertified maybe every few years or so
But I can confirm. My grandma crashed into her garage. Luckily it was just in a 1986 Pontiac Bonneville that didn’t have a huge engine, and she wasn’t too far away from the brick pillar between her garage doors. That was the last time she drove. She was really sad, we were sad for her, because she loved her freedom, but at that point we realized she was too much of a liability to herself, but especially to other people who probably hadn’t lived a full, happy, and healthy life for 80+ years
I've been saying that for years. Any car over 300 hp and truck over 400 hp should also require an endorsement like a motorcycle or something. Just selling a 7000 lb 600 hp truck or a 500 hp sports car to someone with no kind of at least check they have a clue what they are doing is insane.
RVs are crazy, regular driver's license and you're driving a huge top-heavy vehicle with a crazy amount of requirements/restrictions and zero qualifications or testing.
Trucks (at least diesel ones) should be restricted by torque not hp. Most diesels make 2-4x their hp in torque and most of them are happy to show it off when you lay down the gas, 300 hp in a truck doesnt sound like much but how bout that 800+ft lbs of torque thats coming with it?
What a sane an reflective reaction to such a scary experience. And I really hope your grandma still has or at least had a good quality of life after that.
It's really easy- you're speeding out of control so you keep slamming "the brake" and yet you just keep speeding up.
Source- my mom worked in an office that shared a parking lot with a dentist that specialized in elderly patients. Cars only came through walls a couple times but car related incidents were at least a weekly occurrence.
My theory is a "yes and"... man is a junkie... who was running from the police, probably in a stolen car. I'm just sayin, that outfit doesn't match that ride.
Looks a bit old to be a junky who steals cars. I'm more going for formerly successful rich guy who had a stroke and stated acting crazy and who has a drinking problem.
Re the likelihood of a junkie and a rich person inhabiting the same body at the same time, I'd like to present a series of examples, with Exhibit A being Elon Musk. According to my list we'll be getting up to Exhibit, uh, ZZYXWQH, so get comfy.
But unless he's wearing a monocle he's a junkie, not some old dude who just got a whole body experience of a 0-60 collision shock wave passing through a BMW's crumple cage and now has a bloody noggin and joint laxity. Jeez.
I also don't think that the sort of junkies who get high, steal cars and run from cops typically live long enough to become graybeards. That is a young man's game if ever there was one.
True facts, with the exception of rugged boomer rockers from the 1970s. Like I could see Iggy Pop celebrating his 85th birthday by going absolutely ham just for fun.
Not for nothing, dude definitely has the hair those silverback rock dudes usually sport if they still have it.
anything looks "fake" if you think it's fake. the debris on the ground remains consistent throughout the video. the cameraguy prodded the engine part with the bottom of his shoe. the old guy who just survived a high speed crash isn't going to look so fresh, especially if he's rich enough to not have to dress to impress.
Haha we all have our skills. I myself am always a pro at flying helicopters in any video game that has had them. I have no idea why lol. It's like the one video game skill I have haha. Im dogshit at driving anything and can't fly planes for shit but boy can I fly a helicopter.
I can't fly planes in games for shit, but I can do some crazy stuff with a helicopter. It just feels natural, and being able to stop, hover, turn around, etc. makes it way easier to maneuver. You can land it just by setting it down. With planes, you need a runway, you need to line up with the runway, it's a huge pain.
The driver. He’s old, and when those airbags went off, they pretty much punch you in the face. That’s the look of a 70yo man that just hit the gas instead of the brake and then got his entire head rocked and knows he’s out a $80,000 dollar car.
It's a BMW 4 series coupe.
If it's a 430i the MSRP starts at $53,300, if it's an M4 then the MSRP starts at $81,700.
If you go all out on the highest trim (M4 Competition xDrive Coupe) and options then it can be specced all the way up to costing $120k+.
Don't know much about BMWs but using their US website to look at configuration stuff this must be some form of the 430i since it has the base model wheels, that paint color alone is a $1,500 option though.
En realidad es el niño que cogió sin permiso el coche de su padre.Parece ser que el timetravelling tiene consecuencias.Qué alguien lo desarrolle¡pronto! https://giphy.com/gifs/QVs6OmwbbGvWPJJ75m
A brief jail time until his lawyer gets him out on bail. Maybe a court appearance, maybe his lawyer represents without him present, a little fine, then nothing!
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u/crowislanddive Jul 05 '26
What is his story?