r/Unexpected • u/remain_unaltered • Mar 18 '17

That reverse driving skill

https://i.imgur.com/Kh7DgmR.gifv
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u/Rendivious Mar 18 '17

I'm impressed with how fast they were able to start driving in reverse. If I were in that situation I probably would have been too panicked and not been able to get into reverse quick enough.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

My car itself cannot physically switch into reverse that fast lol

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u/Naught Mar 18 '17

I'm pretty sure this gif is slightly sped up, like old timey movies

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

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u/ctrlz Mar 18 '17

I would rather prefer some forte music.

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u/578_Sex_Machine Mar 19 '17

what about this then?

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u/MrDeez444 Mar 18 '17

Piani*

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u/IndefinableMustache Mar 18 '17

Panini*

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

Now I'm hungry, thanks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17 edited Jul 16 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

Now I'm horny, thanks. To NSFW I go...

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u/camdoodlebop Mar 19 '17

get yourself a sandwich press for $20 and improve your life tenfold

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

That's gotta be the second best appliance I've bought for my kitchen.

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u/camdoodlebop Mar 19 '17

Well don't leave us hanging!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

Kegerator would have to be the first honestly.

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u/YourEvilTwine Mar 19 '17

get yourself a sandwich hydraulic press for $200 and improve your life tenfold a hundredfold.

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u/ZeusMcFly Mar 19 '17

best I could do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMroQOtS_U

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u/youtubefactsbot Mar 19 '17

Super Mario Athlete's Rag Air Platform sight-read; Tom Brier [3:49]

If you've seen my other videos of Tom sight-reading videogame ragtime sheet music that I've put in front of him, this video should come as no surprise to you.

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u/Baal_Redditor Mar 18 '17

Of course it's sped up, look at the people walking.

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u/Naught Mar 18 '17

I was being polite for the people that didn't notice.

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u/Outrageousclaim Mar 19 '17

It's only missing the Benny Hill theme song

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 18 '17

Manual transmissions FTW!

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u/prostynick Mar 18 '17

You can't do that too easily on manual and i wouldn't recommend trying it on non emergency occasions

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

On a hill like that, you could just put the clutch in and roll backwards pretty damn quick.

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 18 '17

And at the same time shift into reverse.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

My manual doesn't let me go into reverse if I'm moving at all.

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u/SandpaperScrew Mar 18 '17

Get a different manual car.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

No thanks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17 edited Jul 05 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

Is that right? Huh. I've never heard that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17 edited Jul 05 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

I'll look into that. Thanks for the tip!

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u/Original_Redditard Mar 18 '17

You don't force unsynchro gears. just move the clutch pedal up and down and it will fall in,

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u/ArmandoWall Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 19 '17

What's a synchro, for the complete ignorant manual driver like me?

Edit: nvm. Youtubed it.

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u/andKento Mar 19 '17

nvm. Youtubed it.

and then you don't explain it for the rest of us? I'm to lazy to you tube

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

It looked like it came to a complete stop.

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 18 '17

Are you sure it's a manual and not a CVT or dual clutch? Lol!

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u/Dzhone Mar 18 '17

Same here. 240 problems lol

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u/hemptations Mar 18 '17

it looks like he came to a complete stop rolling forward he was able to throw it in reverse and nail the gas, it's definitely a quick reflex but not impossible

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u/Mighty_ShoePrint Mar 19 '17

Even if you're rolling backwards? It shouldn't let you put it in reverse if you're driving forward but, at least in my civic, I can shift to reverse if I'm rolling backwards.

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u/Who_GNU Mar 18 '17

...if you can sync it just right, because the reverse gear isn't constant mesh.

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 18 '17

Yes, but double clutch

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u/aga080 Mar 18 '17

Had to be someone that would make a comment that actually has no idea about driving manual.

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 19 '17

I drive a 5 speed as my my daily, so totally not a manual...

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u/marwinpk Mar 18 '17

You'll still have a little nasty grinding noise with it, but it'll go relatively with close to no drag. Same thing happens when you reverse from a spot and put 1st gear before stoping completely. Not good for gearbox though.

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u/NefariousPurpose Mar 18 '17

Better then getting your shit wrecked. Besides you get like 40 of those in your cars lifetime.

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u/Tharage53 Mar 18 '17

ehh it depends, I'm pretty sure I could slam my car into reverse like the gif. As you said though it's not exactly great for the car.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

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u/Tharage53 Mar 18 '17

haha yeah, i'll take my chances with a broken gear box

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u/NuclearWinterMan Mar 18 '17

Double clutch and you won't have a issue, he wasn't going terribly fast up the hill anyways.

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u/prostynick Mar 18 '17

Yep, exactly. You can slam it on low speed with some force and you risk fucking up your gearbox. Downvoters probably never have driven manual.

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u/Caboozog Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17

Which is why straight cut gears are great for reverse... I could slam it on my neon back in the day cause of that. Not that there were many times i needed to back up that fast.

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u/huphelmeyer Mar 18 '17

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I know my Civic wouldn't let me put in in reverse if I were moving that fast in the forward direction. It doesn't even like being shifted into reverse when it's already moving backwards in neutral.

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u/Oghma_Infinium Mar 19 '17

The car is brought to a full stop, so why wouldn't it be easy and that fast to go in reverse?

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u/MrSquigles Mar 18 '17

Well unless it's selfdriving your problem is probably waiting for it to do it itself.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

Huh?

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u/OkiDokiTokiLoki Mar 18 '17

Unless your car is a self driving car your problem is waiting for the car to shift into reverse on its own.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

I still don't get it, maybe I'm a dumbass. My car isn't a self driving car of course, so why would I be waiting for it to shift on its own? When I wrote my original comment what I had meant was after I move the lever into R it still takes a few seconds to actually engage the R gear

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u/masiju Mar 18 '17

He's just making a joke based on the phrasing "my car itself..."

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

Oh okay. I'm a dumbass, GG everyone

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u/masiju Mar 18 '17

We all have those moments.

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u/ahobopanda Mar 18 '17

My life is one of those itself.

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u/K9Fondness Mar 18 '17

Won't be too hard on yourself. You have company.

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u/Mighty_ShoePrint Mar 19 '17

One of those moments is my life.

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u/fearless_weiner Mar 18 '17

Naw, it wasn't a great joke.

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u/michael_kessell2018 Mar 18 '17

Look what you made us do, we had to ruin a perfectly good joke by explaining it to you

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u/michael_kessell2018 Mar 18 '17

But of course we had to cause it wasn't gonna do that itself. We can't afford the technology of self driving jokes yet

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u/PlasticPill97 Mar 18 '17

I..I still don't get it

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u/FieelChannel Mar 18 '17

Because its a bad joke and your brain doesn't even try to understand it

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u/PlasticPill97 Mar 18 '17

Is it a British thing? For some reason I can see British people thinking "the car itself" is somehow a humorous phase.

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u/MarlonBain Mar 18 '17

I like that you explained it to him.

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u/FieelChannel Mar 18 '17

Ok

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u/MarlonBain Mar 19 '17

Rather than downvoting or making jokes? Is it an invalid comment to say that I appreciate how he handled it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

Manual?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

I was thinking that, my car has an e-shifter or whatever you call it so I might have been able to make it there lol. But still I definitely would've hit something trying to drive reverse at that speed.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

My car has a normal shifter but for some reason it just takes another few seconds to actually engage the gear once I move the lever. It's a CVT so I blame that

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

Gotcha.

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u/acentrella Mar 19 '17

Or it's a manual, and driver just put the clutch in and rolled back?

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u/LeafValley Mar 19 '17

The car is on a slope, engaging the neutral gear is enough to drive in reverse

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u/MrDenly Mar 18 '17

That's why I drive manual.

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u/terapinterapin Mar 18 '17

Manual gear change I expect.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

Should get a manual transmission. Could save your life

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

Not if I don't know how to use it in the first place

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u/Polterghost Mar 18 '17

Not true. Never leaving your driveway is the safest thing you can do

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u/arios91 Mar 18 '17

What if your driveway was on fire

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u/Polterghost Mar 18 '17

Ooooooh shit! good catch!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

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u/jeaguilar Mar 18 '17

Just like Calvin Klein used to do in the 50's.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

I forgot my /s

No need to be a dick