Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/05/incredible-watch-a-woman-nonc.html
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Time to go and play the lottery!
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There’s a driver in the car, though. Doesn’t “out-of-control” mean unmanned? It’s being controlled, just really poorly.
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On ice, control is illusory.
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Ice is a hell’uv’a drug.
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She was smart. If she had reacted in a more panicked way, she might have slipped and fallen where the car would hit her. Instead, she kept her head and her balance.
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To be fair, it looks so cold she probably couldn’t sweat if she tried. Plus, the other alternative was stepping into the road. Well played, chilly lady!
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Competent human with good situational awareness - no luck required!
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Nonchalantly. Yes. That is what this is: she is now the new epitome of nonchalance.
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Those are mad urban ninja skills.
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Yeah, she must be from Boston/New York/Philly/Baltimore/DC/some city chock full of unsafe pedestrian conditions.
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NINJA!!!
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In the genre of Russian dashcam videos, there are (so I understand) aggregator channels that include voice over commentary of the action on screen.
Since some dashcam recordings include sound (from inside the car) the driver’s epithets can be included in the video.
Drivers whose vocalizations during a critical event reveal them to have not responded emotionally to the event sometimes get an “award” from the narrator of the aggregator channel.
The literal translation of the reward is (again supposedly) something like “rectum of steel.”
I’m confident this woman deserves that award.
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Or maybe “Bullfighter.”
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Bob Sagat once said that you could tell which videos were fakes because they were beautifully framed and steady. The camera on the lady is handheld… why is it pointing at her at that very moment? Why wasn’t the camera person recording the car out of control instead of the lady standing? Why did the camera stay so perfectly steady in such a crazy moment?
I’m not saying it is faked… oh wait, yes I am 
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Given the annual motor vehicle fatality rate (in US for this example), it would appear that “control” isn’t applicable to cars or their drivers at all, ice or no ice.
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If I had to guess, I’d say it’s surveillance video being re-recorded handheld from a monitor.
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My strategy would have been to jump behind the utility poles.
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I thought this same thing, and then… holy shit… they go down like nothing! I would have been killed.
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In Soviet Russia, car drives you.
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