Driver spectaculary fails to park car

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/20/driver-spectaculary-fails-to-park-car.html

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It looks like they set the Parking Accelerator.

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NOT THE PORSCHE!

It looks like they accidentally activated launch control.

How do you use the launch control on a Porsche Panamera?

Steps to Use

  1. Depress the brake pedal to 100%
  2. Quickly depress and hold the accelerator pedal to 100%. You MUST pass the kickdown notch.
  3. The revs will hold at the preset launch control RPM. …
  4. Release the brake pedal quickly and keep the accelerator at 100%.
  5. Enjoy!
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Is it a Panamera? I thought it was a Taycan.

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You’re right. It is. But it’s the same procedure.

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Hey everybody come out of the house and check out the new car I just bought! With all the money I made selling the house!

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The revs hold at a launch control RPM on a Taycan? :slight_smile:

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Electric motors still have RPM. :man_shrugging:

When I looked up the procedure for the Taycan, it’s the same as the Panamera.

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If it’s anything like my Golf R, you would also need to disable traction control and place it in race mode.

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For the Porsche, you just have to have it in Sport mode. Then it’s just mashing brake and accelerator to 100%. As soon as you let up, it’s go time.

I can see where that could happen in a driveway.

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That escalated quickly.

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I’m thinking, “Oh, I see where this is going - high-performance vehicle and a slight incline, they’re going to gas it and go shooting up the hill, probably into that house.” And then I still managed to be surprised. I’m not quite sure what happened there…

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@rocketboy1971 Thanks for your eagle eye! I almost bought the wrong Porsche!

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Wheels turned to park on a hill, I guess.

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I really want to see the various owners’ insurance claim forms on that one!

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Oh, the humanity! I drive many, many vehicles as part of my job, and there’s one modern feature that I have issues with, and which could have caused this: an electronic parking brake.
Stopping on a slope with an electronic brake can be confusing, especially if it’s a new car, because you can get mixed up with how it’s disengaged, and if hill-start isn’t selected and the car starts to roll back, I can see the driver panicking and stomping on the go pedal with this as the result.
My new car has a mechanical handbrake, I trust that a lot more than an electronic one.

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Launch control worked, just failed to reach escape velocity. Must have been going pretty fast to spin that 4wd.

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Well, it looks like a UK situation, so I’m guessing the poor bugger put it into third instead of first gear, and it ran away with him (or her).

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And this is why I love driving a crappy 2006 Toyota, already decorated with dents and scratches.

You can’t even hurt me. What are you gonna do? Land a Porsche on me? Fine!

Then again, I’m not a car guy. If I need to get from point A to point B (and I can’t hit public transit and it’s too cold/wet to cycle) then I don’t care what my car looks like and I sure as heck don’t need whatever feature caused that hilarious video. Just hope nobody was injured. Can you imagine if a pedestrian or cyclist was going by at that exact time?

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