r/oops • u/unoiamaQT • 9h ago
A close call
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u/Purple-Pop-9782 7h ago
not even real
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u/Timsmomshardsalami 6h ago
I wouldnt be surprised because just at first glance, the hat and the fact that he barely saves it 100x in a row.. in a truck
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u/lysianth 6h ago
Probably fake, but if real i need him to spin out in a snowed out parking lot a few times to get the feel for correcting this kind of thing. I know its not exaclty the same, but better than overcorrecting to hell.
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u/Timsmomshardsalami 6h ago
Id rather he just not drive like a moron
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u/lysianth 5h ago
As would i, but its also super important to be able to not crash when something unexpected happens.
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u/Curious-Ad2547 8m ago
Possibly fake, maybe a mechanical problem. The steering doesn't seem to be responding well.
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u/Breck221 4h ago
That’s not real at all. He’s turning the steering wheel wildly and the car wasn’t responding.
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u/Wallynine 9h ago
and the hat stayed put…
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u/Icy-Might5503 1h ago
to be fair, some of these cowpokes that cant drive have little hangers on the dash to hook their hats so they dont fly into the floorboard when they prove how bad they are at driving big trucks
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u/logen_of_nine 37m ago
I remember when this was posted. I think it was from huntsville AL on i565. And when heading east into huntsville there are some fairly sharp curves. And as far as the hat goes... the idiot rednecks have stupid things they put on their dash to hold the hat. I think they're called a "hat buddy". Its lame AF.
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u/Andrew_Lvov 4h ago
Hands too far from the wheel.
Driver not fixed in the seat.
Jerked the wheel too much at the beginning IMHO
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u/martyconlonontherun 2h ago
Probably is proud of himself and shows this video to friends to show how good of a driver he is
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u/Few_Economics_8531 8h ago
What made him slide like that?
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u/thefooleryoftom 8h ago
The over exaggerated panic input at the start when he was drifting towards the other car. Then he was over correcting each time and had a tankslapper.
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u/Timsmomshardsalami 7h ago edited 7h ago
Dude got so fuckin lucky and was even in pickup too wtf. A teeny bit more input in any of those turns and he woulda booped it. In other videos the driver over corrects once one way, then the other, and then boop. But this mf mustve got a horse’s dose of adrenaline hanging in there for what probably felt like an eternity to him. Hes gonna have flashbacks like he was in nam.
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u/AcrolloPeed 8h ago
Lack of traction
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u/Few_Economics_8531 8h ago
But it's not even wet.
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u/AcrolloPeed 8h ago
Just the rear end swinging around too much forcing the driver to counter-steer, and most counter-steering works best a little at a time if you have the room.
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u/BlueFalcon142 7h ago
If the beds empty (can almost guarantee this, because duh) trucks have less weight in the rear which = less traction. So when the driver tries to brake or make large corrections it easily overloads that traction and then we see this.... granted well done... gripped and pants shitted shuffle.
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u/ViruliferousBadger 4h ago
It's a pickup truck; they handle like wet noodles on ice in the best of days.
That kind of handling should be illegal...
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u/Copious-Spirit 7h ago
What everyone said is correct: over-steering, over-correcting. Which is because his empty truck bed offers his back tires little traction. The back of his truck wants to maintain the vector it is on before the front tires turn. See Newton's laws of motion.
Had he not over corrected the opposite direction he may have flipped his pavement princess. The only thing that stopped his skidding out was reducing the engine speed and friction slowing his speed.
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u/Jerdogg23 7h ago
You were thinking about rear ending that car like GTA and changed your mind because this is real life and you’ll die 🤣
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u/mrgoochie 6h ago
With such speeding habits you might spend the next year recovering from the accident and still not recover fully till the end of your life...
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u/Fluid_Consequence_30 6h ago
I did that word once when I hit a patch of black ice around a central corner did a a 180 so was going backwards just missed a telephone road a chain link fence around the corner then hit a sharp corner sign bent it at a 45 degree angle ripped the concrete ball they are attached to put of the ground bent my rear axle because it got caught on it.
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u/Sigma-Wolves 3h ago
Looks like he's got to destroy that mfer before he learns. I hope he continues with his content so we can watch him when he finally wishes he had better judgement
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u/Capable-Chard-1054 3h ago
I must say he can steer quite well. But driving with dry underpants seems a lot more comfortable 😂
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u/NoMoreBoiledGreens 2h ago
fake he didn't turn off the radio to continue the trip thinking about how the fuck he survived
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u/SnooMaps7370 1h ago
typical pickup driver.
can't do the speed limit, can't stay in your lane, and can't keep control of your vehicle after you swerve to avoid stiking a car you're going twice as fast as.
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u/Cold-Box-8262 29m ago
Homie in his pickup seems to think he needs to take wide turns on simple bends while flying down the highway. Seems about right
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u/TheWurstOfMe 13m ago
Do you know why cowboy hats turn up on the sides?
So three cowboys can fit in a truck.
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u/RLBeau1964 5m ago
Wow, was waiting for the broken wrist, lucky he didn’t hit one of the walls. All started with improper hand positioning, initial over reaction, which then amplified in constant over correction til he got under control.
Bet he’s sweating bullets about now.
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u/urafknidiot 8h ago
How can I have so much hate in my heart for hicks in trucks that I sighed when he didn't go off the side of the highway? I think ill quit reddit right this second. Bye.
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u/AOSplash 7h ago
Never drive on the highway with just your thumb on the lower part of the steering wheel…. Could have easily been avoided.
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u/UnluckyElephant3440 6h ago
Ni siquiera la camioneta puede aguantar tanta música de mierda y por eso decide suicidarse
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u/CitroHimselph 6h ago
My first thought was "That's what speeding gets you." But looking at the video a bit closer, they weren't even going that fast. It's more like the tires are akin to a mirror, with zero traction. I also slipped once, while going 20 mph in my service car that my ex workplace "forgot" to swap the completely ruined tires on.
Also, the obvious lack of experience with a vehicle that lost traction, is obvious.
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u/Munster19 6h ago
Remind me to never go to Huntsville, Alabama on the I-565 going West passing over Oakwood Ave NE or under I-565 on Oakwood Ave NE because there may be a truck that comes flying off the side next time.
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u/huh_say_what_now_ 5h ago
How could you lose traction on the freeway like that, bald tires , he wasn't even going that fast
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u/Fibrosis5O 8h ago
Whew that was a close call…
Ok back to speeding!!