Well that deescalated quickly.
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Thatās why some people invest in āair brakesā.
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They usually donāt blow up until 12 seconds after Ponch rappels down and pulls the driver out.
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Iām sure his insurance company will give that youtube video a thumbs up.
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Iām giving you a ālikeā based on what youāve reported.
There is NFW that Iāll watch this video since I drive this bit of road ~four times per year.
The views are amazing but you either have to be a passenger or you gotta pull over in a turn out to enjoy them.
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Yeah while it was awesome to drive the twisty cliff parts of the 1 I also found it kinda unnerving case it goes straight down.
Huh - was this reposted? It came up again on the feed.
Also - I found his problem. ON the dash cam it says āFOZā. Needs to change that to āFONZā and he would have been alright.
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The suspension was enough to make a Jetta handle like a Porsche?
Look, I know Porsche merged with VW, but there are limits.
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Itās a Forester XT. Thatās not an aftermarket hood scoop.
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What I donāt understand is why he went off the cliff instead of going into the side of the mountain. Obviously he lost control, but why he even was headed in that direction escapes me. Thatās driving 101- if you sense you are losing control, aim the car into the hill, not down the hill!
I suspect maybe the issue wasnāt so much that he was going too fast for the corner, it was that coming out of the tunnel his eyes didnāt adjust to the light in time to see exactly where the turn was, he just saw there was a turn to the left up ahead and panicked and turned too soon?
When I was younger we spent a lot of time driving on remote logging roads which are usually quite narrow and hanging off the sides of steep mountains. And sometimes required turning around where there wasnāt enough room because those roads often peter out into impassability. I had nightmares for years about what it would be like to go off a mountainside. Turns out it isnāt as bad as I thought it would be!
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āPlease read the video description below before commenting ā¦thanks.ā He doesnāt understand YouTube, does he?
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a) he was messing around with his cellphone
b) he is a terrible driver
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If only Carl Reiner had yelled āCUT!ā in time.
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he was wearing Opti-grabs!
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This is the ending of every nightmare I had as a child. And I grew up on the prairies.
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If I sensed I was losing control, I would aim the car back on to the road, not a hill. THATāS driving 101.
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Looks a lot like target fixation - where the person drives right into whatever they are trying to avoid by fixating on it. You go where you look, if you donāt want to hit something, you have to look away from it and in those precious seconds where your life is flashing before you, that can be surprisingly hard to do.
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Heās clearly a Named Characterā¦ but either the protagonist hasnāt had a chance to learn his secret yet, or heās just not quite two days from retirement.
Iād expect him to have at least had more dialogue than āoh, noā, thoughā¦
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Iāve been the first responder to faaaaaaaaar too many ācliff divesā than anyone would consider my fair share ā and Iām not an EMT, Iām just frequently there for bad times. Sudden stops & big drops, thatās what mother natureās race tracks have as far as run off.
The last one was a 70ā steep drop with a broken leg, dislocated hip & several broken ribs. I came up on this by seeing a motorcycle parked at a cliff. I knew there wasnāt anything but a big drop there. I looked down, didnāt see anything and called out. Still out of view I heard a guy call back that they needed emergency response. I set that in motion and then made my way down there. Guy had come to a stop propped up by his broken leg from another 50+ foot drop and his Ducati was about 20ā above him in a tree.
Took myself and several EMTās a good hour+ to get him out on a board with ropes and chainsaws (for shrubs/small trees that impeded our ascent).
What sticks with me is if he was riding alone, heād have gone unnoticed until a forest creature got hungryā¦
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M < eh x oops = tada.
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